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Latest Zimbabwe Health News

  • Jimmy Carter and Kofi Annan to visit Zimbabwe 21 Nov 2008 06:30 GMT
    ... pressing ahead with a humanitarian mission to Zimbabwe. They’re doing it even as the state ... political deadlock has left Zimbabweans stalked by disease and hunger virtually without a government as ...

  • » Cholera deaths rise 21 Nov 2008 06:28 GMT
    ... A man from Zimbabwe has died of cholera in Musina, the ... Limpopo border town last weekend, the provincial health department said. Spokesperson Phuti Seloba said the ... were at risk of contracting the water-borne disease. ...

  • SA puts pressure on Zimbabwe's parties  21 Nov 2008 06:25 GMT
    ... government has lambasted the bickering parties in Zimbabwe, saying that a lack of political will ... not lead to increased cross-border movement to health facilities in Limpopo that were already “The ...

  • Pregnant Women Under Threat As Health System Crashes 21 Nov 2008 05:33 GMT
    ... the web 20 November 2008 Many of Zimbabwe's pregnant women and their unborn babies are ... local clinics have closed their doors. Public health workers have said there is a critical lack of medicine, equipment, services and staff, and the closures ...

  • 8 More Die in Beitbridge 21 Nov 2008 05:33 GMT
    ... last week to 44. By yesterday afternoon, health authorities in the town had mobilised more ... WHO, Unicef and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe have pledged financial assistance to the district. ... financial assistance to the district. The provincial medical director, Dr Jabulani Ndlovu, said the situation ...

  • Only Medical School Closes Down 21 Nov 2008 05:33 GMT
    ... web 19 November 2008 The University of Zimbabwe Medical School, the only institution producing medical doctors ... been necessitated by the breakdown of the health system--the non functionality of Parirenyatwa and other ...

  • Elders to Visit Despite Government Snub 21 Nov 2008 05:33 GMT
    ... be going ahead with plans to visit Zimbabwe to assess the escalating humanitarian crisis. This ... resulted in the total collapse of the health delivery system. Many hospitals throughout the country ...

  • Funerals Become Lucrative Business 21 Nov 2008 05:33 GMT
    ... working-class district of Kelvin North in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second city. "Most people [used to be] ... more people dying from HIV/AIDS and other diseases related to the economic crisis ... it ... from poor backgrounds; people who cannot afford medical specialists and expensive medication, so there is ...

  • Today in History - Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008 21 Nov 2008 05:32 GMT
    ... $206 billion settlement with cigarette makers over health costs for treating sick smokers. President Clinton ... last white prime minister of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), died near Cape Town, South Africa, at ...

  • Yizo Yizo Win Bobirwa Constituency League 21 Nov 2008 05:32 GMT
    ... said if it was not for budgetary constraints caused by the Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak and the Zimbabwean problem, Bobonong would have had a stadium by now. However, construction of the facility ...

  • Zimbabwe government bans visit by Mandela's 'Elders' 21 Nov 2008 05:29 GMT
    ... Zimbabwe government bans visit by Mandela's 'Elders' November ... spiralling out of control, the collapse of health, social welfare and education services as the ...

  • Cabinet Concerned Over Zim Cholera, Humanitarian Situation 21 Nov 2008 05:27 GMT
    ... with great concern the humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe and the reported Cholera outbreak that has ... African Development Community (SADC) and the World Health Organisation in this regard. "A strategy will ...

  • Zimbabwe doctors blame government for cholera epidemic 21 Nov 2008 05:26 GMT
    ... Flag of Zimbabwe (Ross Land, Getty Images) JOHANNESBURG, South Africa ... dramatically under-reporting the spread of the infectious disease. About 160 people have died of cholera ... to close because of a shortage of drugs. Comment from Zimbabwean authorities was not immediately ...

  • Two Short Films to Premiere at Festival for Women 21 Nov 2008 05:25 GMT
    ... to the web 20 November 2008 TWO Zimbabwean short films will premiere at this years' ... and tribulations people infected and affected with HIV and Aids go through. In Sharing Day, an ...

  • Zimbabwe health system collapses, cholera crosses border to SA 21 Nov 2008 05:25 GMT
    ... Zimbabwe’s doctors have sketched a picture of a health system that has collapsed with hundreds of ... has been paralysed by drug shortages, insufficient medical supplies, dilapidated infrastructure, equipment breakdowns and brain ...


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