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Zimbabwe needs 64,000 nurses to fill skills gap
Zimbabwe is facing a severe shortage of healthcare workers, with a deficit of 64,000 professionals, according to Health and Child Care Minister, Dr. Douglas Mombeshora. The minister revealed this alar...Published: 20 Nov 2024 at 06:56hrs | 231 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo hospital needs US$80 000 to repair radio therapy machines
ABOUT US$80 000 is needed to repair radio therapy machines at Mpilo Central Hospital at a time when Government is the process of coming up with measures which will solve the problem of non-functional ...Published: 23 May 2023 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls girl (12) dies 'after typhoid jab'
A Grade Seven pupil (12) at Nyongolo Primary School outside Hwange died after her body started swelling and her family suspects she reacted to the new typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) she received rece...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:24hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa commends his wife
President Mnangagwa has hailed the philanthropic work by First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa through her Angel of Hope Foundation. The President said this during yesterday's 41st Independence Day ce...Published: 19 Apr 2021 at 06:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Free cervical cancer treatment in Harare
Parirenyatwa Hospital in partnership with Human Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital from China will be offering free cervical cancer screening and treatment for 1000 women. The insti...Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 10:55hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Did Britain back Mnangagwa?
Nyathi said that in the meeting, Laing "sounded to be really forcing a line that Mnangagwa is the person to work with, and she wanted our opinions around that".Zanu-PF's opponents have alleged...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 12:08hrs | 1 | by Rahul Nagvekar
Zimbabwe rolls on HPV vaccination for girls
The Ministry of Health and Child Care has announced dates for human papillomavirus vaccination for girls aged between 10 and 14.The mass vaccination programme will run from 14 to 18 May....Published: 10 May 2018 at 10:54hrs | 3 | by Byo24News Reporter
400 000 undergo cervical cancer screening
United Nations Population Fund has screened more than 400 000 women since it embarked on the National Cervical Screening Programme, UN senior staffer has said.Launching the Human Papillomaviru...Published: 02 May 2018 at 16:37hrs | 3 | by Byo24News Reporter
Zimbabwe women urged to stop inserting herbs in their privates
MASVINGO - There are women who insert herbs in their privates to tighten the canal but this habit is dangerous as it promotes the development of cancer.Speaking at a workshop held at a local M...Published: 11 Oct 2017 at 09:57hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mudede's claim that contraception causes cancer is misleading and alarmist
In remarks at an Africa Day celebration in Harare on 25 May, Zimbabwe's Registrar General, Tobaiwa Mudede, advised the country's women to stop using contraceptives, the state-owned Herald newspaper re...Published: 17 Jun 2014 at 14:03hrs | 3 | by Researched by Sintha Chiumia
Harare women 'no longer want to wash their private parts'
A Harare based Female Prisoners' Support Trust director, Rita Nyamupinga, allegedly told the capital city's mayor Bernard Manyenyeni that women in the big city "no longer want to wash their private ...Published: 10 Mar 2014 at 20:31hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Zim women embrace cervical cancer screening
AT least 5% of the estimated 880 women screened for cervical cancer in Mashonaland West province between April and July this year were found positive, a senior medical officer said last week.T...Published: 01 Sep 2013 at 04:01hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Cervical cancer vaccine to be introduced in Zimbabwe
The proposed introduction of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in Zimbabwe will result in a marked reduction of women who develop cervical cancer, medical experts have said.The HPV vaccine is...Published: 02 Jan 2012 at 18:40hrs | 1 | by staff reporter
Where are the women's groups?
The deafening silence from women's rights groups and their equally culpable HIV/Aids rights groups over the philandering case of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai leaves one wondering whether their phi...Published: 05 Dec 2011 at 12:30hrs | 2 | by Tendai Moyo
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