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  • 'Zim's health system still strained' 14 Dec 2009 22:26 GMT
    ... HARARE - Zimbabwe's Health Minister Henry Madzorera on Monday said the ... “However we still need to improve our disease surveillance systems which are currently faced with ...

  • Addressing climate change benefits public health 15 Dec 2009 07:10 GMT
    ... Public health would benefit a lot in the global ... He took the example of malaria in Zimbabwe. He presented a map of the current ... India are equivalent to halving the national cancer burden, while deaths from acute lower respiratory ...

  • Measles kills children of anti-vaccination sect 22 Dec 2009 00:11 GMT
    ... measles in a remote part of eastern Zimbabwe, where a religious sect insists on using ... into the hills to avoid detection by health officials working in the Nzvimbe area, 70km ... allow vaccination or allow followers to seek medical treatment. Officials fear the death toll from ...

  • Disappointment as microbicide fails to protect against HIV 16 Dec 2009 04:30 GMT
    ... Chief Investigator, Dr Sheena McCormack of the Medical Research Council said: “This result is disheartening; ... sponsored by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) which suggested that PRO 2000 could ... in South Africa, Malawi, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. This sequence of studies will provide evidence ...

  • Devastating Effects of HIV/ AIDS on Children of Zimbabwe and Bringing Hope to Them 17 Dec 2009 20:33 GMT
    ... or abandoned to live on roads in Zimbabwe due to the devastating effects of HIV/ ... Efforts to provide basic food, education and health facilities to these children are getting hampered ... providing them with food, clothing, educational and medical assistance, and above all hope. More information ...

  • Measles hit Zimbabwe 14 Dec 2009 14:17 GMT
    ... Health officials in Zimbabwe said Monday measles had broken out in ... members of religious groups that shunned conventiaonal medical treatment. As a result, the authorities this ...

  • New meningitis vaccines on cards 15 Dec 2009 22:36 GMT
    ... meningitis, hepatitis, malaria and diarrhea among other diseases that had no vaccines before are on ... the World Millennium Development Goals. The World Health Organisation is urging member-states to boost funding ... Welfare Minister Dr Henry Madzorera said in Zimbabwe, communicable diseases continue to be a major ...

  • Minister Launches Male Circumcision As an HIV Preventive Measure 21 Dec 2009 13:57 GMT
    ... HEALTH and Child Welfare Minister, Henry Madzorera last week ... the national male circumcision (MC) policy for HIV prevention with a call for more support ... to assess the acceptability of MC in Zimbabwe showed that 45% of men were interested ...

  • AIDS drugs don't need routine lab monitoring 14 Dec 2009 21:32 GMT
    ... idea to monitor the progression of the disease and guide the second year of treatment, ... treatment, the study authors report. Patients with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, often receive drug ... The patients were studied in Uganda and Zimbabwe. "The results clearly show that first-line [antiretroviral ...

  • HIV-Positive Villagers Get Health Care Training for Christmas 17 Dec 2009 20:11 GMT
    ... has introduced similar projects in Chad, Angola, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Ethiopia and Liberia. “We are providing ... says. Those who test positive for the HIV virus that causes AIDS are encouraged by trained ... in the world. Poverty, climate change and disease are some of the challenges undermining human ...

  • Health fads put rhinos on death row 19 Dec 2009 10:13 GMT
    ... action was taken against her. Traditional Chinese medicine considers rhino horn as one of the ... a belief that the horn can cure cancer is apparently taking root. There were some ... the poaching in Africa has occurred in Zimbabwe and South Africa, according to new data. ...

  • Major Health Hazard Looms 21 Dec 2009 13:56 GMT
    ... Harare — ZIMBABWE is sitting on an environmental time bomb ... generally undertaken to reduce their effect on health and the environment. Few methods of waste ... invites a lot of flies which carry diseases." ...

  • Ebenezer, Zimbabwe [editorial] 21 Dec 2009 13:56 GMT
    ... September 15 2008, an agreement that showed Zimbabweans how "important" a signature could be to ... that was anti-people: food shortages; decline of health care delivery and the education services; an ... services; an unprecedented hyperinflation; water and sanitation; diseases such as cholera; near collapse of the ...

  • Zimbabwe's beacon of hope 17 Dec 2009 10:18 GMT
    ... The advocacy group Aids-Free World has discovered Zimbabwe. Its co-founder, Stephen Lewis, passionately articulate for causes he identifies with, told Reuters, "The ...

  • SANDF to deploy HIV+ soldiers 18 Dec 2009 21:55 GMT
    ... Johannesburg - South Africa will start deploying HIV positive soldiers to peacekeeping operations, a defence ministry ... were never negative about it," he said. "Zimbabwe already said they wanted our framework, as ...


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