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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 | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe hit by drug resistance
ZIMBABWE is experiencing a high burden of drug resistance to common antibiotics, a situation which has made disease control difficult and too expensive for the poorly resourced country.Also kn...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 14:23hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest female drug smuggler
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Zimbabwe prisoners deprived of ARVs
Pre-trial detainees claim an acute shortage of anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) has hit the country's prisons and correctional facilities, and is now threatening their survival.While tendering the...Published: 24 Sep 2017 at 16:48hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
National Aids Council urges Govt to make ARVs locally
The National Aids Council (NAC) has urged Government to consider manufacturing Anti-Retroviral Drugs (ARV) locally, amid fears that budget cuts by the United States will impact on funding....Published: 05 Apr 2017 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt puts import controls on medicines
In an effort to boost the local pharmaceutical industry, Government has put import controls on 23 pharmaceutical medicines.The industry, which employs over 1 000 people is made up of about nine compan...Published: 01 Mar 2016 at 23:13hrs | | by Staff Reporter
HIV infection man out on bail
AN HIV-positive Gwanda man who was jailed for eight years in August last year for deliberately infecting his wife with HIV has been granted $100 bail pending appeal by the Bulawayo High Court....Published: 21 Jan 2016 at 05:35hrs | | by Richard Muponde
HIV positive woman drugs herdboy, force him into sex, condom burst
A Dete woman stole her husband traditional aphrodisiac and gave it to her 17 year old herdboy and forced him to have sex with her. However, the condom is said to have burst in the heat of...Published: 25 Sep 2015 at 07:20hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Man jailed for deliberately infecting wife
An HIV-positive Gwanda man who was taking anti-retroviral (ARVs) drugs secretly without the knowledge of his wife who is a nurse, has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment for deliberately infect...Published: 02 Sep 2015 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chikurubi Prison Hospital stock expired drugs
Chikurubi Prison Hospital is said to be stocked with mostly paracetemol and cotrimoxazol in its pharmacy and available drugs have long expired. HIV positive prisoners are admitted t...Published: 12 Mar 2015 at 11:55hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Mat'land South records TB deaths
MATABELELAND South Province has recorded the highest tuberculosis (TB) death rate in the country, latest statistics have shown.The province also tops the number of HIV positive people with...Published: 30 Sep 2014 at 08:07hrs | | by Marvelous Moyo
'Poorest' commits suicide
A 46-YEAR-OLD man from Jambezi near Victoria Falls allegedly committed suicide last week because he was tired of taunts by his friends that he was poor.Mubhikwa Mpofu reportedly drank a cockta...Published: 30 Jun 2014 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland women sending ARVs to husbands working in South Africa, Botswana
THE uptake of anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs is on the increase in Matabeleland provinces with revelations that scores of women are collecting the life prolonging drugs on behalf of their spouses who ar...Published: 24 Oct 2013 at 03:19hrs | | by Staff Reporter
HIV+ adult patients given children's medication
THE shortage of cotrimoxazole at the country's public hospitals has forced some health, centres in Gwanda District to issue children's drugs to the HIV positive adults.Some health centres in G...Published: 29 Apr 2013 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff Reporter
ARV national drug stocks improve
Government has reverted to giving people on antiretroviral drugs three months' supplies following improvement in the national drug stocks, a senior health official has said.Previously, people ...Published: 08 Apr 2013 at 02:54hrs | | by Health Reporter
More than half of the children living with HIV failing to access ARVs
MORE than half of the children living with HIV and Aids are failing to access anti-retroviral drugs despite the pediatric formulations being available, senior health officials have said.About ...Published: 17 Jun 2012 at 21:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe Hails HIV Fight - World Aids Day,
Despite the declining rate of HIV prevalence in Zimbabwe, the country still needs to expand on the prevention of mother -to-child transmission while increasing the number of facilities that provide H...Published: 01 Dec 2011 at 12:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
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