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Concerns rise over untreatable gonorrhoea as infections reach record levels in UK
Health experts in the United Kingdom have issued a stark warning about the growing threat of gonorrhoea becoming "untreatable" due to increasing antibiotic resistance. The sexually transmitted infecti...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 08:16hrs | 647 | by Staff Reporter
Morning after pill horror for obese women
THE morning-after pill may not work for overweight or obese women as its effectiveness is affected by body mass index, a medical practitioner has said.Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of bod...Published: 09 Aug 2024 at 07:57hrs | 873 | by Staff reportrer
Man demands paternity tests for children
A Harare man, Samuel Nyika, refuted paternity claims for his two minor children, one of whom is nine years old, when his former wife, Gain Mukundwa, sought financial support for their upbringing. ...Published: 09 Jun 2024 at 09:13hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
African infertility is due to infectious causes(STIs, etc)
Sad reality. The success of marriage, in many African societies, overlies on the ability of a woman to bear children.According to a study, majority of African women infertility is due to infec...Published: 23 May 2023 at 14:31hrs | 1 | by Erick Matotoba
Infertility: The Cindrella of Reproductive Health
Our hearts melted with joy when we saw a recent article from Healthtimes which stated that Zimbabwe will soon have a low cost public IVF centre that will ...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 14:24hrs | 1 | by Heaven Munyuki
Almost 200 babies born through IVF Zimbabwe programme
The in vitro (IVF) fertilisation programme which was reintroduced in Zimbabwe in 2016 by a team led by Dr Tinovimba Mhlanga has proved a great success with 197 live births recorded so far and more exp...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 10:06hrs | 7 | by Agencies
Divorce cases spike
The High Court in Harare recorded a staggering 47 divorce cases on Thursday last week while statistics show that 1 351 couples filed for divorce last year compared to 1 117 in 2020.Observers b...Published: 02 May 2022 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Auxilia Mnangagwa more than a hero, she deserves the award
As Zimbabwe prepares to honour their living and non-living heroes in an annually occasion, the president in his wisdom has taken this opportunity to honour some people past and present heroes. ...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 23:37hrs | 4 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Auxillia calls for end to infertility stigmatisation
FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has called for a culture shift to curb stigma around infertility, which affects women more than their male counterparts.Speaking during the first annual summit wi...Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 07:43hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Equating recently developed COVID-19 vaccines to long-known vaccinations is not only foolish, but irresponsibly dangerous
Who can deny that the Novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has wrecked unimaginable havoc, destruction, and death throughout the world? Who can deny that there is urgent need for a long-lasti...Published: 15 Mar 2021 at 10:33hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabweans shouldn't be influenced by anyone on COVID-19 personal health decisions
The debate on whether to take, or not to take, COVID-19 vaccines has been raging on for the past few months - ever since the announcement by the world's major pharmaceutical companies of their alleged...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 13:35hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Africa is not a dumping ground
During the just-ended Thirty-Fourth Ordinary Session of the African Union Assembly, which was held virtually, President ED Mnangagwa prompted African leaders to think seriously about establishing an A...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 07:56hrs | | by Prosperity Mzila
Infertility: A shared responsibility
Being a parent is a desired part of adult identity in most societies. For many couples, the inability to bear children is a tragedy. The conflux of personal, interpersonal, social, and religious expec...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 12:01hrs | | by Heaven Munyuki
Failure to find a sexual partner is now a disability says WHO
Until now, infertility - the failure to achieve pregnancy after 12 months or more of regular unprotected sex - was not considered a disability. But now in dramatic move the World Health Organi...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 19:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Auxillia joins Mnangagwa in hiring pricey private jets
FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has joined her husband in hiring pricey private jets - which cost taxpayers thousands of United States dollars.The first lady returned home from Dubai on Tuesday ...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 12:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife charters pricey plane to Dubai
FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has joined her husband in hiring pricey private jets - which cost taxpayers thousands of United States dollars.The first lady returned home from Dubai on Tuesday ...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Auxillia Mnangagwa takes luxury private jet home from Dubai
First lady Auxillia Mnangagwa was flown home by private jet on Monday, ZimLive has learnt.Mnangagwa attended a meeting of the Merck Foundation in Dubai that tackled the stigmatisation of women...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:40hrs | 1 | by ZimLive
Mrs Mnangagwa clinches cancer treatment deal
First Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa has clinched a fellowship programme for local doctors with Merck Foundation that will aim to boost the limited number of oncologists in Zimbabwe and train the existing one...Published: 31 Mar 2019 at 16:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
4 infertile couples to benefit from assisted reproductive grant
FOUR couples from different parts of the country who are struggling to conceive have been selected to benefit from a USD$17 000 grant availed by America-based Kiri na Kiri Fertility Assistance Foundat...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 22:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
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
Bulawayo fertility centre helps 17 couples in first year
A MEDICAL doctor has established a centre in Bulawayo to artificially assist people who have challenges in conceiving, to have children. The facility, located along Josiah Tongogara Street and...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 05:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman dies in bid to cure infertility
A 20-YEAR-OLD woman from Gokwe died last week after she reportedly drank a concoction administered by a traditional healer in a bid to cure her barrenness.Midlands provincial police spokespers...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 10:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophet causes a stir, throws lavish birthday party
POPULAR Bulawayo Prophet Thabiso Ngwenya on Sunday caused quite a stir after he hosted a lavish birthday party akin to those of hip-hop moguls such as P Diddy and Jay Z at his Faith In Christ Internat...Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 07:27hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
WhatsApp group helps desperate pregnant teen abort
A YOUNG woman made a chilling confession that her abusive boyfriend and family forced her to abort and a certain WhatsApp group rescued her from misery as women gave her advice on how to terminate a p...Published: 13 Oct 2017 at 11:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Superstition: Africa's worst nightmare after poverty
Every part of the world has had their fair share of ignorance; especially, the naivety that accompanies the weird beliefs people grow into believing. But while other continents seem to be gradually mo...Published: 27 Aug 2017 at 09:50hrs | | by Nimi Princewill
Bulawayo's first test tube baby is born
THE Bulawayo Assisted Reproductive Technology (BART) centre delivered its first baby last week after introducing the In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) programme in December last year.The IVF clinic...Published: 14 Aug 2017 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe prophet wants to be left in peace
Mudzidzi Wimbo (born Aaron Mhukuta), the leader of the Johane Masowe Vadzidzi VaJesu Church, is an enigma. The cleric is mysterious, puzzling and often misunderstood.Mudzidzi Wimbo shot to pro...Published: 16 Jul 2017 at 12:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Daily Old Testament Questions and Answers with Witness Dingani
QN To what extent do men in Zimbabwe suffer in marriages just like Hosea?(25)COMMENT OVERVIEW• The above question might be challenging. The reader will realize that after reading the...Published: 18 Jan 2017 at 13:21hrs | | by Witness Dingani
Fertility clinic opens in Bulawayo
AN in vitro fertilisation (IVF) clinic has been opened in Bulawayo, the second such health facility in the country to offer services to couples faced with infertility.IVF is the fertilisat...Published: 10 Jan 2017 at 05:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Daily Divinity Questions and Answers with Witness Dingani
"Hosea and Gomer divorced because of so many problems" Discuss the causes and effects of divorce in Zimbabwean context ? (25)COMMENT OVERVIEW•The above question demands one to discuss th...Published: 01 Dec 2016 at 16:55hrs | | by Witness Dingani
Heroes' Day: Zapu remembers its heroes and heroines.
Ruth Chinamano Ruth Lottie Nomonde Chinamano (1925-2005) was born on 16/02/1925 in Cape town South Africa. A Xhosa by birth, she grew up in East Grinqualand now (Matatiele). Like any oth...Published: 08 Aug 2016 at 22:48hrs | | by Fiso Hikwa
A'Level: Daily Divinity Questions and Answers with Witness Dingani
QN To what extent do men in Zimbabwe suffer in marriage just like Hosea?(25)Divinity Revision Questions|19 June 2016...Published: 19 Jun 2016 at 09:09hrs | | by Witness Dingani
Zimbabwean firm fights cancer using traditional medicine
Herbal Wellbeing has scaled up advances in cancer treatment by using traditional medicines, a senior official has said.Senior traditional medicine practitioner Newton Mudzingwa said they t...Published: 23 May 2016 at 13:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Woman gives birth at 72!
AN INDIAN couple, both over the age of 70, have welcomed their first child into the world.Daljinder Kaur gave birth a month ago after two years of IVF treatments and using donor eggs.T...Published: 11 May 2016 at 15:30hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Teacher infects form 2 pupil with STI
THE wheels of justice are moving at a snail's pace in a sex scandal involving a senior teacher at Hartzell High School who allegedly had sex with a Form Two orphan at the institutions' Fairfield Orpha...Published: 31 Oct 2015 at 11:23hrs | 2 | by Ray Bande
Mudede's campaign against contraceptives bizarre, baseless
The Health and Child Care ministry has dismissed assertions that modern contraceptives are dangerous, saying there is no need for alarm and panic over the "bizarre" campaign based on unproven rese...Published: 29 Jul 2015 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mudede's contraceptives claims dismissed
Registrar General Tobaiwa Mudede's claims that contraceptives have serious negative side effects on women has been dismissed by the government because his claims were based on unproven research findi...Published: 25 Jul 2015 at 09:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tinopona finds new love
It seems television and radio personality Tinopona Katsande has found love and will be settling down anytime from now. Tintin, as Tinopona is popularly known, revealed her love on her Facebook...Published: 26 Jun 2015 at 07:51hrs | | by Sophia Chese
Binga herbalist a ZITF sensation
A BINGA herbalist became a sensation at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair, which ended yesterday with hordes of people, particularly men, flocking to his stand to purchase herbs to boost their lib...Published: 03 May 2015 at 13:02hrs | | by Peter Matika
Bilharzia disease rampant in Zimbabwe
The Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC), says 57 out of the country's 63 districts are prone to the deadly bilharzia disease which, if untreated, could cause infertility and other health complic...Published: 25 Jan 2015 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Famous faith healer, Ngwenya launches website
RENOWNED faith healer Thabiso Ngwenya has launched a blogspot as a move to broaden his clientele and keep in touch with those that have consulted him."It is where those who want to consult me...Published: 22 Jan 2015 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare, is a hotspot for prostitution
It is after midnight in Harare's beautiful tree-lined streets called the Avenues. Suddenly, a girl emerges from behind a big jacaranda tree. The car's bright lights shine on her. She is wearing a ski...Published: 21 Jan 2015 at 08:51hrs | 1 | by Sekai Nzenza
All hell breaks loose as woman declares hubby infertile
A WOMAN from Mwenezi, Masvingo Province, shocked her in-laws when she claimed that her husband was infertile before disowning a child he had allegedly sired with a small house. Diana Mahuni in...Published: 22 Dec 2014 at 16:32hrs | | by Nhlalwenhle Ncube
40% rural women in Zim infected with female genital schistosomiasis
Over 40 percent of rural women in Zimbabwe are infected with the female genital schistosomiasis, a new form of bilharzia affecting women only, statistics from the first community-based report on t...Published: 05 Nov 2014 at 07:09hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
'Prophet' rapes married woman (19) 'to cure infertility'
A SELF-PROCLAIMED Chitungwiza prophet was arrested for allegedly raping a 19-year-old married woman under the guise of freeing her from the evil spirits that were causing her infertility problems....Published: 28 Sep 2014 at 18:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-cop allegedly raped niece in exchange for uniform
An elder brother to the Bulawayo ex-police officer facing alleged charges of raping his school going niece on five occasions yesterday testified in court that his brother forced the young girl to have...Published: 31 Jul 2014 at 08:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim men responsible for infertility problems - Research
The majority of infertility problems that Zimbabwean couples experience can be attributed to men's health and social strains, latest research findings show.A study by Ms Stancia Moyo of the Un...Published: 13 Jul 2014 at 06:04hrs | | by Tinashe Farawo
New STD deadlier than AIDS discovered
There is a new sexually transmitted superbug that experts say may be more deadly that AIDS.According to a CNBC report, an antibiotic-resistant strain of gonorrhea is more aggressive than the H...Published: 28 Jan 2014 at 08:14hrs | | by kenya-today
Infertility report riles Tino 'Tin-Tin' Katsande
FORMER radio personality and actress Tinopona Katsande is fuming over a story published by one of the local papers about her infertility yesterday.She argued that her post on Monday was meant ...Published: 17 Jan 2014 at 07:33hrs | | by Entertainment reporter
Nigerian man 'kills' wife over infertility
A 34-year-old Nigerian man has been remanded in prison for allegedly killing his wife for her inability to have a children. The incident happened at Gbagada area of Lagos State.Punch M...Published: 09 Oct 2013 at 04:24hrs | | by Moyo Roy
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