Health

Zimbabwe surpasses global target on HIV treatment: report

Zimbabwe has achieved and surpassed the global target on HIV testing, treatment and viral suppression, three years ahead of the set time, state news agency New Ziana reported on Wednesday. The Joint UN Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAids) aims for HIV testing, treatment

November 9, 2022

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe renews COVID vaccination drive, targets school kids

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe has launched a new COVID-19 vaccination campaign that includes jabbing children aged 12 and above to rescue a drive faltering due to vaccine hesitancy and complacency. This week schools in the southern African country have become vaccination

March 24, 2022

Breaking News·Europe

Italians on high alert as coronavirus spreads south of the country

Italy’s coronavirus outbreak spread south on Tuesday to Tuscany and Sicily, as the civil protection agency reported a surge in the number of infected people and the death toll rose to 10. Officials reported 322 confirmed cases of the virus, 100 more

February 25, 2020

Africa·Health & Fitness

WHO likely to declare Ebola an international emergency -experts

The World Health Organization (WHO) should and is likely to declare an international emergency over the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has now spread to Uganda, experts said as a WHO advisory panel met on Friday. Congo’s epidemic

June 14, 2019

Zimbabwe

Mnangagwa promises to tackle funding for the Zimbabwe’s health system

On Wednesday President Emmerson Mnangagwa said his government was working on replacing the old sewer infrastructure installed by the Rhodesian regime, which was constantly bursting in Harare, leading to the outbreak of waterborne diseases such as the deadly cholera epidemic. He said

September 21, 2018

Zimbabwe

Grace Mugabe Health Deteriorating left with ‘days to live’

Former First Lady Grace Mugabe’s health is reported to be deteriorating very fast amid reports that doctors are giving her a little chance of survival. Sources close to her indicate to media that her battle with an appendectomy operation in 2015 in

September 17, 2018

Breaking News·Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe Struggles to Contain Cholera Outbreak

The capital Harare has been inundated by the outbreak, with more than 3,000 cases reported. NGOs have accused the government of spending state cash on luxury items instead of providing basic healthcare. The latest cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe has claimed the lives

September 17, 2018

Zimbabwe

Cholera outbreak kills 10 people in Zimbabwe

A cholera outbreak has killed 10 people in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare after they drank contaminated water, a city health official said on Sunday. Harare city council has struggled to supply water to some suburbs for more than a decade, forcing residents to

September 9, 2018

Zimbabwe

Walter Mzembi, suffering stomach cancer, trial postponed

Embattled former cabinet minister Walter Mzembi is reportedly battling stomach cancer and will be undergoing treatment for one year, a Harare court has heard. Mzembi told Milton Serima the Harare magistrate, that he has been diagnosed with gastric cancer and has since

July 25, 2018

Zimbabwe

United Nations: More than 50% of Zimbabwean Sex workers living with HIV

THE prevalence of HIV is increasing among Africa’s sex workers with half of sex workers in Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, South Africa and Zimbabwe are living with HIV, a United Nations agency has revealed. In its Data 2018 report, UNAIDS noted that key populations

July 21, 2018

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