6 June 2018. Today Zimbabwe became the 17th country in the WHO AFRO Region which have completed their Health Financing Strategies; when they launched the Zimbabwe Health Financing Policy and Strategy. The launch, which w…
Read more13 April. Zimbabwe commemorated World Health Day at the WHO compound in an event which saw the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of WHO as well as the launch of the Healthy Ageing Strategy. World He…
Read moreThe call was made during the commemoration of World TB Day which was held at Dzivarasekwa Stadium in Harare. Globally, World TB Day is commemorated on the 24th of March each year, and Zimbabwe joined the rest of th…
Read moreA workshop on annual peer review of progress and planning for Anglophone countries is taking place in Harare from 22nd to 23rd March at The Monomotapa Hotel. The meeting has brought together participants from Botswana, E…
Read moreIn a move aimed at complementing and supplementing the Ministry of Health and Child Care's efforts to step up essential emergency preparedness and response, WHO Zimbabwe handed over cholera and emergency reproductive hea…
Read moreHARARE: 10 Oct. 2017 Today Zimbabwe joined the rest of the world to commemorate World mental health day at Lafarge Cement plant in Harare. Lafarge is a cement producing company which has strong policies about their…
Read moreZimbabwe played host to the 67th Regional Committee Meeting (RC67) of the WHO African Region from 25th Aug.—1st September. The meeting, which was held at Elephant Hills Hotel in the resort town of Victoria Falls, was de-scribed by many participants as “one of the best RCs,” and “highly successful.” Victoria Falls town is home to the “Victoria Falls” also known as "Mosi oa-Tunya" ("the smoke that thunders") which is positioned almost exactly half way along the mighty Zambezi River's 2700 km journey from it's source to the sea. Here the river plunges headlong into a 100m vertical chasm spanning the full one-and-a-half kilometre width of the river creating the biggest curtain of falling water in the world and also one of the seven natural wonders of the world. Par-ticipants to the meeting enjoyed visits to the falls and the rainforest.
Read moreHarare: 3 Aug. 2017 - World Breastfeeding week was launched in Highfield, Harare under the theme Sustaining Breastfeeding Together. The event, which was attended by the Highfield community of nursing mothers, UN agencies…
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