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Lifeline for Zimbabweans living with HIV, kidney disease
People living with HIV in Zimbabwe are increasingly facing a deadly paradox. Antiretroviral therapy (ART), which has been instrumental in extending lives and suppressing HIV, is also contributing to a...Published: 09 Jun 2025 at 17:35hrs | 642 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in record kidney failure cases
Zimbabwe registers approximately 1,000 cases of kidney failure each year due to restricted access to early diagnosis and treatment, a challenge that continues to put lives at risk.Speaking dur...Published: 11 Mar 2025 at 16:56hrs | 1369 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo teacher to undergo life-saving kidney transplant in India
After a prolonged battle with chronic kidney disease, 52-year-old Mrs. Isabel Mavengano, a dedicated teacher from Bulawayo, is set to leave the country today for a life-saving kidney transplant in Ind...Published: 30 Jan 2025 at 06:50hrs | 200 | by Staff reporter
Siziba, Chenhamo to be buried at National Heroes' acre
Major General (Retired) Solomon Siziba and Chenhamo "Chen" Chakezha Chimutengwende, who both passed away last week, will be laid to rest at the National Heroes' Acre in Harare on Wednesday, January 22...Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 14:19hrs | 657 | by Staff reporter
Chenhamo Chimutengwende remembered for alleged election violence
ZANU-PF nationalist and former Cabinet minister Chenhamo Chimutengwende, who passed away last week at the age of 81, has been remembered for his controversial involvement in orchestrating violence dur...Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 10:18hrs | 286 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi cover-up editor urgently needs medical help
Geoffrey (Geoff) Nyarota is in critical health and urgently requires medical treatment for a trio of serious conditions: cancer, heart disease, and kidney failure. Nyarota, who has a long career in jo...Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 15:54hrs | 745 | by Staff reporter
14-yr-old needs help for dialysis
A 14-year-old Shungu High School pupil in Kwekwe, Takunda Lusinga, who has a chronic kidney disease, is appealing for financial assistance to enable him to have three dialysis sessions a week....Published: 28 Mar 2022 at 06:48hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe kidney patients red-flag high dialysis costs
KIDNEY patients continue facing challenges such as the high cost of treatment despite many interventions made by non-governmental organisations to reduce the costs of dialysis.Speaking to News...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 07:42hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt threatens more restrictions
GOVERNMENT yesterday warned citizens to brace for more movement restrictions in light of the highly fatal and fast-spreading South African variant of the COVID-19 virus, which now constitutes 61% of n...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 06:32hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
HIV, Asthma, BP patients cannot take Chinese vaccine
THE Chinese Covid-19 vaccine donated to the country by the Asian ally may not be administered on HIV or cancer patients and those with uncontrolled chronic conditions such as hypertension and diabetes...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 06:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe: A leader loved and hated in equal measure by Zimbabweans
Longtime Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has died. He was 95.Loved and hated in almost equal measure by Zimbabweans, the former teacher was best known for leading Zimbabwe to independence, ...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 08:38hrs | 3 | by Compiled by Alet Janse van Rensburg
Households with HIV and Aids up
THE number of households with at least one member living with HIV and Aids has increased by 12 percent with the recently released Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee report showing that antire...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Canaan Banana's widow seriously ill
Former first lady Janet Banana is seriously ill and is seeking medical treatment.The 83-year-old wife of Zimbabwe's first post-independence president Canaan Sodindo Banana is being taken care ...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 08:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Linda Masarira confronts Mnangagwa
MDC-T National Spokesperson Linda Masarira has called for President Mnangagwa to come out clean on the credentials of Minister of Health Obadiah Moyo. "With all due respect Mr. President Emmer...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 11:32hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe health minister a medical impostor
HEALTH minister Obadiah Moyo is neither a qualified medical doctor nor a fellow of various international elite societies as stated on his curriculum vitae posted by Chitungwiza Central Hospital (CCH),...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 07:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's new cabinet an average team
THE cabinet appointed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week dubbed the "dream team" by government publicists, though a marked improvement from previous ones, has shortcomings as it features minist...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 16:23hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's new Health Minister labelled academic fraud
Zimbabwe's new Health Minister, Obadiah Moyo, is an academic fraud who does not have the qualification he claims to possess, according to the United States embassy.Moyo, who lost to the MDC Al...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 20:48hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Dialysis unaffordable for most people, says Kidney Association
Kidney disease can affect anyone but only those with access to considerable financial resources or with medical aid cover are currently able to afford dialysis, according to Kidney Association of Zimb...Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 08:45hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Mpilo hospital to roll out nuclear medicine
MPILO Central Hospital in Bulawayo is set to roll out nuclear medicine, the first institution to do so in Zimbabwe, and this will result in advanced diagnosis and treatment of cancer, heart, lung, kid...Published: 06 Jun 2017 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dialysis too expensive, says Parirenyatwa
Zimbabwe records 1 000 cases of kidney failure every year yet only 700 of those are on dialysis, Health and Child Care Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa has said.Speaking at the 12th annual c...Published: 13 Mar 2017 at 05:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Don't mess with Grace Mugabe
During a state banquet in Pretoria, South Africa, in April 2015, I had a brief encounter with Grace Mugabe, the first lady of Zimbabwe. I was asking her husband, Robert Mugabe, about the question of ...Published: 16 Jul 2015 at 08:47hrs | 3 | by David Smith
Axed Generations actor's marriage crumbles
Menzi Ngubane better known as Sibusiso Dlomo to Generations fans has hit a low as his marriage falls apart.According to Drum magazine, Dlomo admitted that for the past five years he has been l...Published: 12 Sep 2014 at 09:09hrs | 1 | by Times LIVE
Erectile dysfunction: Every man's nightmare
At least 80 percent of men in Zimbabwe have suffered from erectile dysfunction (ED) at some point in their lives, and over 60 percent of them presently face the problem fairly often.The Men's ...Published: 07 Sep 2014 at 09:09hrs | 2 | by Sharon Kavhu
Woman seeks help to undergo kidney transplant
A RUSAPE woman, Mollen Nyamhotsi, who was diagnosed with a kidney disease and chronic renal failure, is appealing to the public for assistance to secure funds to travel to India for a kidney transplan...Published: 22 Aug 2014 at 06:33hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Scientists 'delete' HIV from human cells
Once HIV conquers a human cell, it stays there forever but scientists have for the first time ever "deleted" HIV from human cells, marking a major breakthrough in fight against AIDS.The virus ...Published: 24 Jul 2014 at 09:54hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe's Profile
Robert Mugabe, who has just won an eighth five-year term as Zimbabwe's leader with 61 percent of the vote, compared to 34 percent for his challenger and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, is one of the...Published: 03 Aug 2013 at 15:21hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Mandela has gone too far in doing good to non-black communities,' says Mugabe
SABC talk show host Dali Tambo has lashed at accusations that he was sprucing up Robert Mugabe's image in a rare interview with the Zimbabwean leader who took a swipe at Nelson Mandela's reconciliatio...Published: 26 May 2013 at 08:50hrs | 4 | by Sunday Independent
Medical parole for jailed SA police chief
SOUTH Africa's former police chief and ex-Interpol president Jackie Selebi, who last year was jailed for 15 years for corruption, has been granted medical parole, the prisons minister said Friday....Published: 20 Jul 2012 at 16:17hrs | | by AFP
What people don't know about AIDS
I did a little research on the subject of AIDS. And when I started I had so many questions which I didn’t have answers to, the first one being, âââ€...Published: 22 Jan 2012 at 12:06hrs | 1 | by Dumisani Ndlovu
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