By Shalom Shawurwa Old Mutual Zimbabwe has teamed up with the Eye Institute to launch a nationwide programme offering free eye care including more than 300 cataract surgeries scheduled for this year. The initiative follows a 2024 pilot in Manicaland where over 100 patients had their sight
My name is David and I live in Chitungwiza with my wife, six children and my elderly father. When my wife got sick, we both agreed to go for HIV testing. We both tested HIV positive. Later, I started suffering from a mild headache. Then,
The African Region has made good progress in controlling Tuberculosis (TB) though it still has the world’s highest levels of the disease, World Health Oorganisation (WHO) Zimbabwe Country Office Medical Officer in Charge, Dr Julie Nabyonga has said. Speaking at the TB Day Commemorations in Harare
The awards were presented to the heads of state of Zimbabwe, Gambia, Senegal, Madagascar, Algeria and Comoros for reducing Malaria cases by more than 20% from 2015-16 as well as being on track to achieve more than 40% drop of malaria cases by 2020.
Non Communicable diseases are also known as Chronic diseases,these diseases are slow progressing diseases and are long duration diseases or lifetime diseases
At lease four people have died from the recent cholera outbreak which ravaged Chegutu town while 32 cases have been recorded in the past two weeks. Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa confirmed the cholera related incidences which surfaced on 8 January after an 80
Zimbabwe is set to host the 67th Regional Committee Conference of the World Health Organization in Victoria Falls set to run from 28 August to the 1st of September 2017. Addressing the media in Harare on Thursday, Minister of Health and Child Care, Dr David Parirenyatwa said
Medecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has called on donors to support mental health activities in order to address challenges affecting mentally ill patients in Zimbabwe. By Philemon Jambaya Speaking during the World Health Day commemorations that coincided with the official opening ceremony of the Harare Central Hospital Psychiatric
Barbra Farashishiko (46) is a fighter. She has lived with HIV for over 25 years. Farashishiko is the only surviving member of the three siblings in her family following the death of her brother and sister who succumbed to the pandemic. By Kudzanai Gerede She says living
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