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Chiwenga says 'more innovative health solutions critical'
Government has pledged to be innovative and always on hand to curb threats posed by Covid-19 in the country's quest to attain high health standards for citizens. Vice President Dr Constantino ...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 06:46hrs | 125 | by Staff Reporter
Fears of ARVs shortages allayed
The National Aids Council (NAC) says Zimbabwe has enough stocks of antiretrovirals (ARVs) to take the country through the year amid indications that most resources are being channelled towards the fig...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 09:45hrs | 476 | by Staff reporter
Private players will open path for counterfeit vaccines
Counterfeit drugs are a menace and a definite threat to global peace and stability. Inert drugs are being peddled on the drug market to an unassuming market with dire consequences. Entire communities ...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 06:37hrs | 192 | by Sapien Sapien
Prominent HIV researcher succumbs to Covid-19
Dr David Katzenstein, a leading Zimbabwe-based US researcher specialising in HIV research through collaborative efforts with local universities and medical research institutions has died.He su...Published: 01 Feb 2021 at 19:12hrs | 1422 | by Staff reporter
ARVs shortage hits Bulawayo
BULAWAYO has been hit by a shortage of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs), with patients saying the COVID-19 lockdown period had worsened the situation.Some of the patients, who spoke to Southern Eye...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 07:11hrs | 778 | by Staff reporter
Fighting HIV and AIDS in times of COVID-19
The World AIDS Day is marked every on 1st December every year to raise awareness about the disease. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is the UN entity tasked with fighting HIV in...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 17:37hrs | 776 | by Zipporah Musau
Zimbabwe to resume manufacturing ARVs
ZIMBABWE will now resume local manufacturing of Antiretrovirals (ARVs) and other drugs using local pharmaceutical companies as the country has been losing millions of foreign currency by procuring the...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 06:47hrs | 338 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga targets sex workers
ZIMBABWE new HIV annual infections have fallen from 47 000 recorded in 2016 to current statistics of 40 000 while AIDS related deaths have declined to 20 000 in 2019 from 54 000 in 2010.This, ...Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 06:24hrs | 4216 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe makes huge strides in combating HIV/AIDS
Zimbabwe has made commendable progress in reversing the course of the AIDS pandemic through prevention of new HIV infections and the provision of treatment to those infected despite economic challenge...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 06:45hrs | 217 | by Staff reporter
ARV shortage hits Zimbabwe
A shipment of Antiretroviral (ARV) drugs meant for Zimbabwe will not be arriving in time due to Covid -19 induced delays, forcing the Ministry of Health and Child Care to reduce its six-month multi-dr...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 06:11hrs | 2929 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa's comments offer hope on end to the Pandemic
African Union Special Envoy in the fight against COVID-19, pan-African businessman Strive Masiyiwa, has said an end to the deadly pandemic could be in sight as new treatments emerge that offer hope fo...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 19:03hrs | 1175 | by Agencies
Hospital loses essential equipment to thieves
There was an alleged break-in at Mvurwi hospital where an Administrator's laptop and scan equipment was stolen last week, Bulawayo24.com has learnt.Sources familiar with the incident allege th...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 14:59hrs | 1764 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
ARV shortage fears dismissed
Natpharm has assured Zimbabweans on second regimen antiretroviral treatment that the current stocks which are low will be expeditiously replenished. There had been concerns among those who tak...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 05:59hrs | 236 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe winning HIV/Aids war
ZIMBABWE is continuing to do relatively well in its fight against HIV/Aids - with latest regional figures placing the country fifth among 16 nations that are battling the pandemic.This comes a...Published: 29 Aug 2020 at 16:30hrs | 392 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe was better under Mugabe,' says Hopewell Chin'ono
PROMINENT journalist Hopewell Chin'ono says Zimbabwe needs political reforms to end the multifaceted crisis facing the country.Chin'ono (HP), who has become a target of Zanu-PF attacks for exp...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:02hrs | 2245 | by Staff reporter
HIV patients fail to access ARVs
PEOPLE living with HIV and AIDS are having difficulties in accessing second line drugs from public institutions and are being forced to buy them from pharmacies at US$25 for one-month's supply. ...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 06:36hrs | 520 | by Staff reporter
Woman, hubby's lover in social media spat
A WATERFALLS woman sent photographs of ARVs to her married lover's wife, purporting to be hers and claiming she had unprotected sex with the man.The 32-year-old Cecilia Zhanje's unverified cla...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:52hrs | 2683 | by Staff reporter
Villagers stranded with HIV medication
Antiretroviral drugs are reportedly piling up in rural areas as parents are failing to send the critical drugs to their children and grandchildren in neighbouring South Africa and Botswana due to the ...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 09:56hrs | 1543 | by Stephen Jakes
HIV+ Zimbabweans in SA, Botswana stranded
THE Community Working Group on Health (CWGH) has revealed that Zimbabweans living with HIV in neighbouring countries have been left stranded as they are no longer able to access their antiretroviral (...Published: 22 May 2020 at 20:15hrs | 2684 | by Staff reporter
Health experts fear spike in HIV infections
Informal traders in Marondera yesterday said the CoVID-19 lockdown restrictions were hindering access to life-saving HIV medication, particularly for those in rural areas, among other challenges....Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:10hrs | 1267 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 shifts attention from other health services
In a few days time, Langa Mthethwa will be due for a visit at Mpilo Central Hospital to get her Jadelle removed. The implant contraception has helped ensure she does not have unplanned pregnancies as ...Published: 19 May 2020 at 07:12hrs | 273 | by Staff reporter
Condoms, HIV testing for quarantined returnees
NATIONAL Aids Council (Nac) and its implementing partners are working with the Ministry of Health and Child Care to provide HIV related healthcare services, among them provision of condoms and HIV tes...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:23hrs | 412 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe has adequate ARVs in stock'
THE National Aids Council (Nac) has said the country has adequate stocks of ARVs to last up to the end of the year. The council said those collecting ARVs must be given at least three months' ...Published: 16 May 2020 at 07:22hrs | 280 | by Staff reporter
Ventilators for Europeans, soap for Africans?
How many times a day do we hear that coronavirus is "the great leveller", infecting world leaders and bus drivers alike? Should we be finding it reassuring that a deadly virus is the thread that unite...Published: 19 Apr 2020 at 12:59hrs | 1786 | by Christopher Stokes
'MPs, govt officials should contribute $1 000 each towards COVID-19'
Proportional Representation MP Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga (MDC) has called on MPs and government officials to donate $1 000 of their monthly earnings towards funding the country COVID-19 war ches...Published: 13 Apr 2020 at 08:49hrs | 536 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe distributes ARVs in fight against coronavirus
THE Health and Child Care ministry has started distributing antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) in preparation for the deadly coronavirus outbreak that has so far claimed 2 461 lives and infected 79 930 globa...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 17:54hrs | 581 | by Staff reporter
Nurse syndicate channel ARVs to black market
Anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs that are supposed to be dispensed for free by public health institutions are being diverted to the black market by some unscrupulous nurses, who are selling a month's suppl...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 05:28hrs | 540 | by Staff reporter
Concern over patients defaulting ARVs
The National Aids Council (Nac) Bulawayo provincial manager Sinatra Nyathi has raised concern over the deaths of people with HIV and Aids who stopped taking antiretroviral drugs after being told to do...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 07:07hrs | 976 | by Staff reporter
Aids battle far from over
LAST Sunday, Zimbabwe joined the rest of the world in commemorating World Aids Day, which is always marked with much pomp and fanfare as well as passionate declarations and pledges for enhanced access...Published: 09 Dec 2019 at 07:23hrs | 559 | by Staff reporter
Hospital official up for ARV drugs theft
MVURWI District Hospital administrator Florence Makombe is in soup after she allegedly tried to steal a box of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs which were kept at her office due to lack of storage space at ...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:23hrs | 478 | by Staff reporter
HIV testing teams to visit homes
NATIONAL Aids Council (Nac) working with Zimbabwe Population-based HIV Impact Assessment (Zimphia) has launched a sensitisation survey in Bulawayo in order to collect data to assess how far the countr...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:37hrs | 420 | by Staff reporter
Govt, Nust in child ARVs study
GOVERNMENT and the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) have embarked on a study to improve the provision of anti-retroviral treatment (ART) for children. The Ministry of Healt...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 06:58hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt losing Aids battle
The government's fight against the HIV/Aids pandemic continues to falter due to the country's worsening economic rot, which has left at least one million people on antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) in dange...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 08:02hrs | 699 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to brace for ARV shortages
ZIMBABWE should brace for another extended round of shortages of ARVS for mostly second line treatment after the National Aids Council (NAC) said it was facing foreign currency challenges to settle a ...Published: 25 Sep 2019 at 06:27hrs | 350 | by Staff reporter
Xenophobic arrests and raids in the so called 'multi-pronged Approach'
The Constitution of South Africa enshrines the right to Human dignity, equality of treatment before the law and in the enjoyment of all rights, the freedom and security of the person which includes no...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 17:14hrs | 1320 | by V Sibanda
ARVs shortage hits Bulawayo
SOME people living with HIV in Bulawayo are failing to access antiretroviral (ARV) drugs due to shortages in the city blamed on distribution inefficiencies as Government says the country has adequate ...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 07:25hrs | 1009 | by Staff reporter
HIV testing fees reviewed
NEW Start Centres across the country have reviewed their charges for HIV testing and counselling to $9, a situation that will likely discourage people from testing, at a time when the country is worki...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:18hrs | 259 | by Staff reporter
UN allays Zimbabwe ARV shortage fears
A foreign currency shortage is hampering Zimbabwe's ability to purchase anti-retroviral therapy for people living with HIV, but the United Nations says the situation has not yet reached crisis levels....Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 08:47hrs | 1144 | by Staff reporter
Sex workers to reveal status
THE Centre for Sexual Health and HIV Aids Research (CeSHHAR) has said sex workers should not be afraid to reveal their HIV status to their clients as a measure of reducing the spread of HIV and sexual...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 21:08hrs | 138 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe stocks year's supply of ARVs
Zimbabwe has enough anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs that will last the next 12 months after Government secured funding to procure the life-prolonging therapy, Parliament has heard. Health and Child Care M...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:14hrs | 151 | by Staff reporter
'Economic crisis won't affect ARV supply'
Health Minister Obadiah Moyo says Zimbabwe is in a safe zone regarding the allocation of Anti Retroviral Drugs (ARV) despite the country's economic collapse. Moyo called on Zimbabweans l...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 20:32hrs | 845 | by Staff Reporter
Biti, Mthuli in nasty exchange
Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube and MDC vice president Tendai Biti - who held the Finance portfolio during the inclusive government between 2009-13 - have engaged in a war of wo...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 07:46hrs | 13248 | by Ndou Paul
Nurses vacate clinic over goblin scare
VILLAGERS in Gwanda rural have been left stranded as a clinic in their area has shutdown due to a goblin scare. Nurses at the rural health centre, Silikwe Clinic, have since downed their tools...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 06:53hrs | 614 | by Staff reporter
ARVs shortage looms: NAC
Zimbabwe is facing serious shortages of life-saving HIV drugs following the devaluation of the local currency, which wiped away funds collected by the National Aids Council through the Aids levy....Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 09:09hrs | 518 | by Staff reporter
'Expired' ARVs fear allayed
Government has assured People Living with HIV and Aids (PLWHA) of the safety and effectiveness of all antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) being dispensed in public health institutions. This followed f...Published: 20 May 2019 at 06:32hrs | 327 | by Staff reporter
New HIV drug unveiled
Newly diagnosed HIV patients are now being initiated onto a new regimen of antiretroviral medication containing Dolutegravir (DTG), a drug which has significantly less side effects and is more afforda...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:35hrs | 2338 | by Staff reporter
'Drought to severely affect HIV+ people'
A UNITED Nations (UN) organ has warned that people living with HIV will be severely affected by drought-induced hunger because they are unable to take life-saving treatment on empty stomachs.F...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 07:12hrs | 599 | by Staff reprter
Patients urged to 'Stop defaulting on ARVs'
MPILO Central Hospital clinical director, Solwayo Ngwenya has urged people living with HIV and Aids not to stop taking Antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) saying treatment interruptions will have serious nega...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 07:32hrs | 2671 | by Staff reporter
'Prophets fuel ARVs defaults''
PEOPLE living with HIV (PLHIV) have blamed some prophets and faith healers for the upsurge in the number of people who default from the first line antiretroviral therapy (ART). After defaultin...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 18:14hrs | 355 | by Satff reporter
Zimbabwe's fuel crisis: The role of policy errors
Dear Mr President,I write this letter to you as a citizen of Zimbabwe who has been a lifetime student of policymaking, with a particular interest on using policy to achieve equity and social j...Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 06:46hrs | 728 | by Zii Masiye
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