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Zim-India bilateral cooperation deepens; as WTSA preps gains momentum
Zimbabwe and India are set to deepen their bilateral cooperation in the fields of healthcare and pharmaceutical, with the former (Zimbabwe) inviting and encourages Indian investors to set up related m...Published: 11 Oct 2024 at 20:54hrs | 218 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
When dark babies are not good enough
For Ms Ntokozo Gumbo, after successfully achieving her desired complexion following years of investing in skin care to lighten her skin tone, she was disappointed when she gave birth to a baby heavily...Published: 22 Aug 2024 at 07:10hrs | 354 | by Andile Tshuma
Zimbabwe eyes US$272 billion global cannabis market
Zimbabwe's favorable climate for cultivating high-quality medicinal and recreational cannabis, combined with appropriate regulations and robust marketing strategies, holds significant economic potenti...Published: 22 Jul 2024 at 07:49hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
American Chamber of Commerce appoints Dudu Shinya as Executive Director
The American Chamber of Commerce in Zimbabwe (AmCham Zimbabwe) has announced the appointment of Duduzile Shinya as its new Executive Director. Duduzile is a Fellow Chartered Accountant of Zimb...Published: 12 Jun 2024 at 20:18hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
Benylin paediatric syrup banned
THE Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) has banned the sale of Benylin Paediatric Syrup, which is manufactured by Johnson and Johnson in South Africa, after authorities in Nigeria found tox...Published: 16 Apr 2024 at 07:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe introduces injectable HIV drug
ZIMBABWE has introduced Cabotegravir long-acting (CAB-LA), an injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis drug, to add to the HIV prevention regime in the country.The drug, an ARV designed to suppress...Published: 11 Apr 2024 at 08:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Blitz exposes unregistered medicines
A JOINT operation between the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) and the police this week uncovered an illegal distribution network of unregistered and expired medicines including illicit ...Published: 10 Apr 2024 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans turn to medicinal herbs
PEOPLE are flooding traditional herbal markets, as prices of prescription drugs spike and the public health delivery system deteriorates at an alarming rate under pressures from a relentless economic ...Published: 24 Mar 2024 at 18:15hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Top firm caught smuggling drugs into Zimbabwe
Authorities have seized drugs that were allegedly smuggled through the country's porous borders by one of the country's major medical service providers Baines Radiology Group (BIG).Highly plac...Published: 24 Mar 2024 at 14:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Indian soldiers in murky deals
SUSPECTED former Indian army officers, who have been operating in Mozambique's troubled northern province of Cabo Delgado region, have reportedly settled in Zimbabwe, where they are allegedly operatin...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 05:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga threatens 'rogue' pharmacists
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga has called upon the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) to take decisive action against health professionals who violate pharmaceutical laws by revoking ...Published: 12 Sep 2023 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga set for Egypt
Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga, who is also the Minister of Health and Child Care, is expected to lead the Zimbabwe delegation at this year's Africa Health ExCon, which starts here in Egypt on...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 08:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe eyes Egyptian medicine
Zimbabwe has taken steps to formalise acquisition of cheaper medicines from Egypt after a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in Harare Friday between the two African countries' medicines regulat...Published: 13 May 2023 at 18:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe hit by paternity fraud
THE case of a prominent Bulawayo pathologist Dr Roger Kruger Hendrick Chigangacha who sued his ex-girlfriend, Natasha Popova Sibanda, a former actress in the TV drama Amakorokoza for US$163 000 ...Published: 10 Feb 2023 at 19:41hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
MCAZ issues warning to people advertising illegal medicines
THE Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) has issued a warning to people that are illegally advertising illegal medicines on social media, saying they risk being jailed. In a statemen...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Israeli HIV 'cure' Gammora drug not approved in Zimbabwe
THE Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) has warned against the use of Gammora as treatment for HIV.Gammora is a drug developed by Zion Medical, an Israeli-based biotech company whic...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 16:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hair-straightening creams face ban
SOME hair-straightening creams and skin-lightening cosmetics that have been linked to cancer could soon be banned from the local market under new regulations spearheaded by the Medicines Control Autho...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 09:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe urges pharmaceuticals to promote production of herbal and generic medicines
Health and Child Care deputy minister John Mangwiro has urged pharmaceutical companies to promote production of herbal and generic medicines to reduce the country's medical import bill.Address...Published: 01 Nov 2022 at 05:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe first African country to approve use of HIV/AIDS prevention medicine
Zimbabwe has become the first African country to approve the once-every-two-months injectable HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis drug.Monday, medicines regulatory board Medicines Control Authority o...Published: 19 Oct 2022 at 20:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sex 'booster' takes Harare by storm
THIRTY-TWO-year-old Takunda Dube says he has been battling erectile dysfunction and decreased libido since he was 21.The condition is common, but can be a frustrating and embarrassing experien...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:34hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Time to protect people from their churches
VERY little is known about one of the worst religion-related mass murders and tragedies that occurred in Uganda in 2000 in which 700 Ugandans died. More is known about the 1978 Jonestown massacre in G...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:20hrs | | by Miriam Tose Majome
Zimbabwe in race against time to exhaust stockpiles of Covid-19 vaccines
Zimbabwe is battling against time to administer over 14 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines that are already in its stocks amid concerns of public complacency and hesitancy, it has been established....Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pharmacies shut over expired drugs
At least three pharmacies have been shut while four managers lost licences for selling expired and unregistered medicines to unsuspecting patients, as the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ...Published: 12 Feb 2022 at 16:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Medicines Board Shuts Down Pharmacies Over Unauthorised Drugs
THE Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) has suspended four pharmacy supervisors and shut down three over suspected cases of illegal dealings.The MCAZ did not give any explanation an...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Public warned against street drugs
Zimbabwe Professional Nurses Union (ZPNU) has warned the public against buying pharmaceutical products from unregistered institutions and dealers as they will be risking their lives .The stree...Published: 25 Dec 2021 at 09:21hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe goes to court over TV paternity show
A TV host whose DNA paternity show was shut down by the Health Professions Authority Zimbabwe (HPAZ) has gone to the High Court to challenge the decision.Tinashe Mugabe's hit show, The Closure...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 07:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ZBC hikes licence fees
Cabinet received an update in respect of Zimbabwe's Covid-19 response as presented by the Honourable Vice President Dr. CGDN Chiwenga as chairperson of the Ministers' National Committee.The na...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 05:31hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 vaccination extended to 16-year olds
All teenagers aged 16 and over should now be vaccinated against Covid-19.Schools, colleges, vaccination centres and others are now required to start vaccinating teenagers aged 16 and 17 with t...Published: 02 Nov 2021 at 05:32hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe probes 4 deaths linked to Covid-19 vaccines
Zimbabwe investigated four deaths over possible links to Covid-19 vaccines, officials said on Sunday.The four cases were among 96 reported post-vaccination adverse reactions, but none of them ...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:45hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Ivermectin okayed for Covid-19 treatment
Three private hospitals and three private pharmacies have been allowed by the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe to prescribe Ivermectin for the prevention and treatment of Covid-19 but only in r...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 05:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Vaccination rates continue to dwindle
While the third wave of Covid-19 infection continues to trickle down to just 4,8 percent of its mid-July peak, the vaccination rate is also continuing to slow with 286 134 jabs given last week between...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 05:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Delta variant accounts for 79% of Zimbabwe Covid-19 infections
ZIMBABWEANS should ensure they always follow laid down Covid-19 prevention measures to avoid the introduction of deadlier strains of the disease in the country as the virulent Indian Delta variant now...Published: 04 Aug 2021 at 06:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF refused 1 million J&J vaccine doses, 6 months after FDA approval and now J&J is gold dust
A few weeks ago, Zimbabwe was refused one million doses of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine offered through the Africa covac initiative under the pretext the country did not have the extra cold facilit...Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 07:51hrs | 6 | by Wilbert Mukori
Single dose Covid-19 vaccine for Zimbabwe on the cards
ZIMBABWE may soon start administering the single dose Johnson and Johnson vaccine following approval by the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe.The authority approved the use of Johnson an...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 11:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe issues 55 medicinal mbanje/ cannabis licences
THE Zimbabwe Investment Development Agency (Zida) has to date licensed 55 local and foreign investors for their medicinal cannabis sector-based strategy, meant to promote investments into the country....Published: 01 Aug 2021 at 06:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Vaccines administered in Zimbabwe effective against Delta variant'
ALL the Covid-19 vaccines being administered in Zimbabwe under the mass inoculation programme are effective against the highly virulent Delta variant, experts have concluded.In Zimbabwe, the D...Published: 01 Aug 2021 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe approves Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine
THE Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe has authorised the use of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine with effect from 25 July 2021. It becomes the first Western vaccine approved for use ag...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 13:46hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean business tycoon says Ivermectin saved his life
West Properties chairman Ken Sharpe on Friday donated US$50,000 to government for the purchase of Ivermectin, saying he and his wife only escaped death thanks to the drug after they contracted the Cov...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 09:43hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
WHO warns on 'Covid-19 drug'
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has distanced itself from the distribution of the Ivermectin drug locally.Ivermectin, a drug used to treat parasite infections, was approved to treat Covid-...Published: 04 Jul 2021 at 14:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean company cashes in on Ivermectin
THE growing interest in the use of Ivermectin to treat and prevent COVID-19 has opened floodgates, with some individuals and companies now advertising the sale of the drug without approval from the Me...Published: 03 Jul 2021 at 10:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe company cashes in on anti-parasitic drug ivermectin
The growing interest in the use of Ivermectin to treat and prevent COVID-19 has opened floodgates, with some individuals and companies now advertising the sale of the drug without approval from the Me...Published: 03 Jul 2021 at 07:54hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe rolls out new contraceptive
The Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council (ZNFPC) has introduced a new contraceptive - Sayana Press - to widen family planning options.The new contraceptive, which is manufactured in Belgi...Published: 30 Jun 2021 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe approves lvermectin vaccine for COVID-19 treatment
THE Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) has approved the use of Ivermectin human oral formulations for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 as the country battles a third wave of the hi...Published: 29 Jun 2021 at 19:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Schools opening deferred as COVID-19 cases surge
CABINET yesterday deferred the opening of schools for the second term by two weeks after the country recorded a sharp increase in COVID-19 infections in recent weeks.The infection rate surged ...Published: 23 Jun 2021 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Zimbabwe can be COVID-19 free'
AUSTRALIAN gastro-enterologist, Thomas Borody, has claimed that Zimbabwe can achieve a COVID-19-free status if correct interventions to combat the respiratory virus are followed.Speaking at a ...Published: 21 Jun 2021 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records no Covid-19 vaccine side effects
Zimbabwe has not recorded severe side effects of Covid-19 vaccines since mass inoculation began nearly four months ago.More than 571 000 people had received their first dose of the vaccine by ...Published: 16 May 2021 at 08:07hrs | 13 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe sets conditions for cannabis production
GOVERNMENT yesterday announced guidelines for the production and processing of medicinal cannabis.The southern African nation's laws only allow for cultivation of cannabis for medicinal and sc...Published: 13 May 2021 at 06:54hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Covid-19 vaccines are completely safe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, has urged Zimbabweans to embrace the ongoing Covid-19 national inoculation programme, saying the vaccines are completely safe.This comes after the country c...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 13:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinese vaccine given green light
AUTHORITIES have cleared the Chinese coronavirus jabs - which arrived in the country on Monday - paving the way for the government's national vaccination programme that is initially targeting frontlin...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 19:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
US linked Biti queries acquisition of Chinese vaccine
HARARE East MP and MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti has raised concerns about the safety and effectiveness of the Sinopharm vaccine donated to the country by the Chinese government on Monday....Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
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