Health

World Health Organization has urged governments across the world to keep health workers safe in order to protect patients. Briefing the press at the World’s Patient Safety Day commemorations today, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom…

Danielle Stanisic, Griffith University and Johnson Mak, Griffith University More than 28 million people around the world have now contracted COVID-19, and more than 900,000 people have died. Research groups across the globe are rightly…

National Blood Service Zimbabwe (NBSZ) has partnered Facebook to create an innovative feature that will see blood donors signing up to get notifications when blood centres near them require urgent donations to bolster the national bank.…

ZimThrive, in collaboration with Covid-19 Zimbabwe, has donated $5900 USD to Parirenyatwa hospital to support the welfare of frontline health workers. The rise in cases in Zimbabwe has led to an urgent call for more resources and the…

Medical doctors remain unmoved by the restructuring proposal by the new health and child care minister Vice President Constantino Chiwenga saying they will only make a decision after fully understanding details of his plan. In a…

The government has put in place strategies to reduce the number of patients who seek medical treatment outside the country, Minister of Health and Child Care, Constantino Guvheya Chiwenga has said. Addressing the media yesterday,…

Government has launched a Health Booth Project meant for information dissemination and mentoring young people to walk away from drug abuse, a rampant and increasing problem in our country. Speaking at the launch under the theme 'Breaking…

60 Bulawayo girls who have found shelter at a dumpsite at Ngozi Mine in Bulawayo on Saturday received a reusable sanitary pads donation courtesy of The Livingstone-Galen Trust. The vulnerable girls whose lives revolve around the garbage…

Zimbabwe is introducing the dapivirine vaginal ring to expand HIV prevention options for women. The dapivirine vaginal ring developed by the International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM) is a flexible, silicone ring that a woman can…

Doctors have argued that the country has not yet managed to control the COVID-19 pandemic despite recording a major decrease in active cases recently. The Senior Hospital Doctors Association (SHDA) spokesperson Aaron Musara claimed that…