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Masowe woman in record breaking home deliveries
AT 30, Vongai Matara Gondo, a midwife of the Johanne Masowe ye Chishanu apostolic sect, has helped 157 women to deliver.Vongai says midwifery is her calling.Despite the high risks that...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pregnant women flood Harare hospital
Harare Central Hospital is struggling to cope with a surging number of women seeking free maternal health services — creating bed shortages in the process at one of the country's major referral cent...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 15:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Child marriages a major cause for concern in Zimbabwe
A research by an international HIV and AIDS awareness think tank, has revealed child marriages are still a problem in Zimbabwe and stigmatisation attitude among school going children, prompting stakeh...Published: 19 Aug 2017 at 17:31hrs | | by Staff Reporter
98% of children in Zimbabwe are breastfed
According to the Zimbabwe Demographic Household Survey (ZDHS 2015), 98% of children in Zimbabwe are breastfed, with 48% being exclusively breastfed for the first 6 months of life and 14% breastfed unt...Published: 03 Aug 2017 at 08:05hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Sex education at ECD level
SEXUALITY education has been introduced in schools across all grades, starting from Early Childhood Development (ECD) as part of increasing sexual reproductive health knowledge among young people, an ...Published: 09 Jul 2017 at 07:33hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo women bear less children - National Family Planning Council
WOMEN in Bulawayo metropolitan province bear the least number of children compared to their counterparts in other provinces across the country, statistics have shown.According to the Zimbabwe ...Published: 04 Jun 2017 at 10:10hrs | 7 | by Staff Reporter
No condoms in schools - Health Ministry declares
THE Government will not distribute condoms in primary and secondary schools but will instead pursue other HIV intervention strategies that resonate with the mandate of schools, the Ministry of Health ...Published: 02 Apr 2017 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Bev, Muridzo tricky tryst
WHILE many Zimbabweans chuckled, bickered and gnawed each other over Andy Muridzo and Beverly "Bev" Sibanda's illicit affair, very few people reflected on the repercussions of having unprotected s...Published: 05 Feb 2017 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo women violent - Government report
A Government commissioned survey has claimed that Bulawayo women are the most violent countrywide as they periodically lash their husbands.To compound the matter, women who attend Pentec...Published: 22 Dec 2016 at 11:37hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe records decrease in HIV prevalence rate
The final results of the 2015 Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey (ZDHS) show that the HIV prevalence rate in the country declined from 18% to 14% over the past 10 years.The results of ...Published: 14 Dec 2016 at 05:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa toasts 'enemy' US
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has hailed the relationship between Zimbabwe and the United States in the fight against HIV and Aids despite their political differences. He said the US gover...Published: 02 Dec 2016 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Pregnant' teen daughter of AFM elder commits suicide
An Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) elder's form three daughter is believed to have committed suicide in Centenary Mashonaland Central province yesterday (Wednesday).Sources close to investigatio...Published: 24 Nov 2016 at 14:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
New HIV infections drop 13.8% in Zimbabwe
THE country recorded a total of 57,300 new HIV infections in 2015, statistics from the recently released Zimbabwe Demographic Health Survey show. The survey, which is done every five years, sh...Published: 11 Jul 2016 at 05:45hrs | | by Thandeka Moyo
Teenagers increasingly experimenting with sex
HARDLY a week passes by without the Chitungwiza Magistrates Court dealing with a case of a man who would have engaged in sex with a minor.Magistrate Rekina Dzikiti last week convicted 25-year-...Published: 07 Jun 2016 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rural girls get pregnant earlier than urban ones
Teenage pregnancies among girls in rural areas is still high as one in 10 give birth each year, statistics from the Zimbabwe Demographic Health Survey (ZDHS) 2015 have indicated.In 2010, 2...Published: 30 May 2016 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe attacks Vapositori
President Robert Mugabe has attacked members of the Vapositori (apostolic sect members), for refusing to take their children to school and hospitals, citing it as one of the country's major draw backs...Published: 21 Jun 2015 at 16:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
HIV prevalence rate high among widows, widowers
MORE than half of widowed women and men in Zimbabwe are HIV positive, a study has revealed.Ward 4 Councillor Silas Chigora on Wednesday told participants at the belated Bulawayo provincial...Published: 19 Dec 2014 at 08:55hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
Sunday Women Matters with Blondie - To What Extent Do Zimbabwean Women Have Access to Property and Resources?
The SADC Protocol provides that by 2015 state parties shall review all policies and laws that determine access to, control of and benefit from productive resources by women. In Zimbabwe, ...Published: 14 Jun 2014 at 23:04hrs | 4 | by Lorraine Blondie Sibanda
'Circumcised men contracting HIV after ditching condoms'
SOME circumcised men are contracting HIV and Aids after ditching the use of condoms, under a misguided belief that male circumcision (MC) would prevent them from getting infected, The Standard report...Published: 10 Nov 2013 at 10:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe to mark World Toilet Day
The United Nations General Assembly has set aside November 19 as World Toilet Day as part of efforts to influence policies that encourage construction of proper and enough sanitary facilities worldwid...Published: 23 Oct 2013 at 05:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Condoms, birth control pills to be distributed to 10 year olds
The Ministry of Health and Child Care is pushing for the introduction of a legal framework to support the distribution of contraceptives to "adolescents" aged between 10 and 24 under an ongoing initia...Published: 22 Sep 2013 at 09:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
How HIV affects women
Research shows that the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is most prevalent in females and the findings leave many people with more questions than answers.Global statistics reveal HIV is most...Published: 02 Jun 2013 at 04:49hrs | | by In-Depth Reporter
HIV wreaks havoc in Zimbabwean prisons
THE HIV prevalence rate in Zimbabwe prisons stands at 27%, a figure almost double the national prevalence rate, a health official revealed.Aids and TB Unit director in the Ministry of Health ...Published: 12 May 2013 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
76% of people now have access to improved water sources - Report
A recent Zimbabwe Demographic Health Survey (ZDHS) has revealed that 76% of people in the country now have access to improved water sources, up from 46 percent in 2008, according to However...Published: 30 Apr 2013 at 02:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's economic stability triggers baby boom
Child births have risen in Zimbabwe from 3,8 to 4,1 births per woman since 2006 in what many experts believe is a result of the economic stability the country is enjoying, a recent study has revealed....Published: 14 Jul 2012 at 14:26hrs | | by Senior Health Reporter
Zim nursing schools producing half-baked midwives
Government nursing schools are producing half-baked midwives through short cut training and employing unqualified midwifery tutors in efforts to fill vacant posts. The Zimbabwe Con...Published: 13 May 2012 at 20:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Domestic violence case still high in Zimbabwe
CASES of domestic violence throughout the country remain high despite several interventions to stop perpetrators from committing the offence, a recent national survey has revealed.The most com...Published: 30 Apr 2012 at 21:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
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