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The just-ended ninth Conference of Parties (COP) of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) held in the Netherlands did not disappoint. As was largely expected, the global health body stuck to…

Zimbabwe road safety stakeholders have called on the Government to enact laws that will enforce measures that mitigate damage on road users in the unfortunate event of a road traffic accident. Speaking to 263Chat during the Africa Road…

The World Health Organization has come up with new resolutions to ensure the health and well-being of children. In an update from the Seventy-fourth World Health Assembly on 29 May 2021, the resolutions on Ending violence against children…

World Health Organization (WHO) Zimbabwe has urged the government of Zimbabwe to redouble efforts to eliminate Mother to Child Transmission of HIV and Syphilis. Addressing the fourth quarter National Validation Committee today, WHO…

Two years ago Maria Masauso (38) lost her three-year-old twins to what she believed was witchcraft in Chapoto village, Mbire district, a community in northern Zimbabwe. When her children fell ill she resorted to traditional herbs,…

Chairperson of the Ad-Hoc Inter Ministerial Task Force and Defence Minister Oppah Muchinguri- Kashiri has revealed that Zimbabwe will engage the South African government to increase patrols along border lines to curb illegal crossing,…

Since the news of Terrence Maphosa’s (25) contraction of COVID-19 and his subsequent admission at Parirenyatwa hospital hit Glen Norah (a high density suburb in the capital Harare) early May, it has been taking a mental toll on him.…

Zimbabwe is yet to meet the World Health Organisation (WHO) conditions for the lifting of the Covid-19 lockdown, a government official has said. In a media brief, Information Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has urged countries to move fast and distribute malaria prevention and treatment tools at this stage of the COVID-19 outbreak in sub-Saharan Africa, and to do their utmost to safely maintain these…

A busy coronavirus day across the continent, three countries have recorded index cases of the disease. Ghana in West Africa, Gabon in Central Africa and Kenya in East Africa. The Kenyan case is the first in East Africa. According to…