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Zimbabwe needs 64,000 nurses to fill skills gap
Zimbabwe is facing a severe shortage of healthcare workers, with a deficit of 64,000 professionals, according to Health and Child Care Minister, Dr. Douglas Mombeshora. The minister revealed this alar...Published: 20 Nov 2024 at 06:56hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo diarrhoea cases surge 700%
The City of Bulawayo has experienced a concerning spike in diarrhoea cases, with approximately 555 reported as of August 2024. This marks a staggering 693% increase from the 370 cases recorded in July...Published: 11 Oct 2024 at 17:58hrs | 320 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo Hospital’s lab gains international certification
The United States has reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening Zimbabwe’s healthcare system, with an annual investment exceeding US$200 million aimed at improving health outcomes across the countr...Published: 18 Sep 2024 at 19:35hrs | 335 | by Staff reporter
Free medical outreach in Matebeleland South
HUNDREDS of people in several villages in Matebeleland South benefitted from free medical outreach programmes being conducted in the province as part of the implementation of the Government's Health R...Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 05:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife invited to Iran
IRAN's First Lady Dr Jamileh Alamolhoda on Saturday rolled out the red carpet for her counterpart Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa, where the two exchanged notes on various issues including education, health, wo...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records 3 000 cancer cases annually
CERVICAL cancer has become a major health concern among Zimbabwean women where an average of 3 000 cases are recorded each year, health experts have observed.Cervical cancer constitutes about ...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 08:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife gets UK invite
A United Kingdom-based organisation - NCD Global Alliance which fights non-communicable diseases (NCDs) has written to the First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa inviting her to join their organisation as an N...Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 06:41hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Auxilia Mnangagwa more than a hero, she deserves the award
As Zimbabwe prepares to honour their living and non-living heroes in an annually occasion, the president in his wisdom has taken this opportunity to honour some people past and present heroes. ...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 23:37hrs | 4 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zanu PF Youth League statement on the occasion of the Day Of The African Child 2021 edition
The ZANU PF YOUTH LEAGUE joins all progressive forces in commemorating the Day of the African Child whose theme is "30 years after the adoption of the Charter: accelerate implementation of Agenda 2040...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 13:30hrs | | by Zanu PF Youth League
Victoria Falls girl (12) dies 'after typhoid jab'
A Grade Seven pupil (12) at Nyongolo Primary School outside Hwange died after her body started swelling and her family suspects she reacted to the new typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) she received rece...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:24hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Govt typhoid vaccine rollout targets children
THE Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine (TCV) campaign rolled out on Monday by government will address the country's challenges in managing the waterborne disease, addressing its growing antimicrobial resistanc...Published: 26 May 2021 at 06:28hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Scramble for Covid-19 vaccines in Bulawayo
HOSPITALS and clinics in Bulawayo are now only inoculating people seeking their second dose of Covid-19 vaccines as the high uptake has seen the city run out of jabs.The city has seen an incre...Published: 23 May 2021 at 07:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa commends his wife
President Mnangagwa has hailed the philanthropic work by First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa through her Angel of Hope Foundation. The President said this during yesterday's 41st Independence Day ce...Published: 19 Apr 2021 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Free cervical cancer treatment in Harare
Parirenyatwa Hospital in partnership with Human Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital from China will be offering free cervical cancer screening and treatment for 1000 women. The insti...Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 10:55hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe rolls on HPV vaccination for girls
The Ministry of Health and Child Care has announced dates for human papillomavirus vaccination for girls aged between 10 and 14.The mass vaccination programme will run from 14 to 18 May....Published: 10 May 2018 at 10:54hrs | 1 | by Byo24News Reporter
400 000 undergo cervical cancer screening
United Nations Population Fund has screened more than 400 000 women since it embarked on the National Cervical Screening Programme, UN senior staffer has said.Launching the Human Papillomaviru...Published: 02 May 2018 at 16:37hrs | | by Byo24News Reporter
First Lady steps up cancer fight
First Lady Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa yesterday took her nationwide campaign against cervical cancer to Mashonaland East, where she called on women to take advantage of free screening offered at public h...Published: 25 Feb 2018 at 10:24hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe women urged to stop inserting herbs in their privates
MASVINGO - There are women who insert herbs in their privates to tighten the canal but this habit is dangerous as it promotes the development of cancer.Speaking at a workshop held at a local M...Published: 11 Oct 2017 at 09:57hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabweans orderd to pay ZBC licence fees as Majome loses ConCort fight
THE Constitutional Court has dismissed with costs a case in which MDC-T Harare West legislator Jessie Majome was challenging the constitutionality of mandatory ZBC licence fees.A full ConCourt...Published: 15 Nov 2016 at 06:21hrs | 1 | by Ndou Paul
'60% of local cancer cases HIV related'
ZIMBABWE continues to record a rapid increase in the number of new cancer cases and cancer related deaths, with about 60 percent of the cases HIV related, data from the Cancer Association of Zimbabwe ...Published: 06 Mar 2016 at 06:55hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
HIV in Zimbabwe: Is condom use really working?
It is so saddening to note that despite Zimbabweans being the highest condom users in the world, the HIV/Aids prevalence rate still remains one of the highest in the world, and one wonders whether pro...Published: 18 Jan 2016 at 11:45hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
HIV+ men can be circumcised
Men living with HIV are increasingly undergoing male circumcision as it helps reduce the chances of getting re-infected.This has also been proven to decrease the risk of passing on the human-p...Published: 20 Dec 2015 at 09:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mudede's claim that contraception causes cancer is misleading and alarmist
In remarks at an Africa Day celebration in Harare on 25 May, Zimbabwe's Registrar General, Tobaiwa Mudede, advised the country's women to stop using contraceptives, the state-owned Herald newspaper re...Published: 17 Jun 2014 at 14:03hrs | 2 | by Researched by Sintha Chiumia
HPV vaccination for Zim girls
The Ministry of Health and Child Care will next month introduce an anti-cancer vaccine known as the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccination for girls aged 9 to 13 years to prevent cervical cance...Published: 15 Apr 2014 at 18:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare women 'no longer want to wash their private parts'
A Harare based Female Prisoners' Support Trust director, Rita Nyamupinga, allegedly told the capital city's mayor Bernard Manyenyeni that women in the big city "no longer want to wash their private ...Published: 10 Mar 2014 at 20:31hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Cheating or polygamous men risk getting cancer,' says Chinotimba
BUHERA South MP Joseph Chinotimba has backed MDC-T vice-president Thokozani Khupe's call for men to undergo circumcision to reduce incidences of cervical cancer in women saying it could save live...Published: 26 Oct 2013 at 11:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
'I am calling on men to undergo circumcision' - Khupe
MDC-T vice-president Thokozani Khupe yesterday reiterated calls for men to consider circumcision in a bid to prevent new cervical cancer infections in the country.Cervical cancer is caused by ...Published: 18 Oct 2013 at 03:32hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zim women embrace cervical cancer screening
AT least 5% of the estimated 880 women screened for cervical cancer in Mashonaland West province between April and July this year were found positive, a senior medical officer said last week.T...Published: 01 Sep 2013 at 04:01hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Michael Douglas reveals his throat cancer was from STD
Actor Michael Douglas has revealed his throat cancer was caused by a sexually transmitted disease he contracted by giving oral sex.The 'Behind the Candelabra' star, who was diagnosed with st...Published: 03 Jun 2013 at 22:24hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Govt adoptes new cervical cancer vaccine (HPV)
THE Government has adopted a new cervical cancer vaccine called the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) that is expected to reduce the number of women who succumb to the disease.The Ministry of Healt...Published: 22 Apr 2013 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Combating HIV infections among African women
Schoolgirl Nomasonto Masango giggles as she lists the things she and her friends want boyfriends to buy them. "If you have an older boyfriend, he can buy you things and it is nice to show your friends...Published: 08 Feb 2012 at 06:03hrs | | by Kerry Cullinan, Durban, South Africa
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Cervical cancer vaccine to be introduced in Zimbabwe
The proposed introduction of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in Zimbabwe will result in a marked reduction of women who develop cervical cancer, medical experts have said.The HPV vaccine is...Published: 02 Jan 2012 at 18:40hrs | | by staff reporter
Where are the women's groups?
The deafening silence from women's rights groups and their equally culpable HIV/Aids rights groups over the philandering case of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai leaves one wondering whether their phi...Published: 05 Dec 2011 at 12:30hrs | | by Tendai Moyo
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