By Tatenda Chimbwanda Mazowe, Zimbabwe – Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for nearly 10 million deaths in 2020. Between 2009 and 2018 cancer cases in Zimbabwe have almost doubled according to t…
Lire la suiteBy Tatenda Chimbwanda Harare, Zimbabwe – On average, every working Zimbabwean spends one third of their life at work. This is a lot of time employees are exposed to work-related stresses. Moreover, the COVID- 19 pande…
Lire la suiteBy Tatenda Chimbwanda Kadoma, Zimbabwe - Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a threat to global public health, which involves the human, animal, food, plants, and environment sectors. AMR happens when germs like b…
Lire la suiteBy Vivian Mugarisi At least 1.8 million received free oral treatment for schistosomiasis (bilharzia) and soil transmitted helminthiases (intestinal worms) during a mass treatment exercise conducted from 3-9 April 202…
Lire la suiteHarare, Zimbabwe – The first global assessment of the burden of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) revealed that nearly 5 million deaths in 2019[1] were associated with drug-resistant infections. A major driver of AMR i…
Lire la suite7 April 2022 - Today, The Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) joins the rest of the world to mark World Health Day 2022. This year’s theme “Our planet: Our health” advocates for global attention on urgent actions n…
Lire la suiteHarare – Nothando Moyo* envisageait d’abandonner son traitement de la tuberculose résistante aux médicaments « même si cela signifiait que j’allais mourir », admet-elle. Le traitement de plusieurs mois de la souche résistante aux médicaments – qui ne réagit pas aux deux médicaments les plus efficaces – impliquait des injections quotidiennes que Nothando, une habitante de la ville de Bulawayo au Zimbabwe, supportait difficilement.
Lire la suiteBy Tatenda Chimbwanda Kariba, Zimbabwe: Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) also known as sleeping sickness is a vector-borne disease transmitted to humans by tsetse fly bites, which have acquired their infection from…
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