Zim nursing schools producing half-baked midwives

Government nursing schools are producing half-baked midwives through short cut training and employing unqualified midwifery tutors in efforts to fill vacant posts. The Zimbabwe Confederation of Midwives revealed this in response to questions why Zimbabwe’s Maternal Mortality Ratio continues to worsen since 1994.The Zimbabwe Demographic Health Survey (2010-2011) released recently says MMR now stands at 960 per 100 000 live births.This means one in every 100 women dies while giving birth or when a hospital assists an average of 50 women to deliver daily, then someone dies in every two days.The current figure is an increase from the previous high of 725 per 100 000 live births released in 2007. Statistics from the 2010 Millennium Development Goals status report show that in 1994 the MMR was 283 per 100 000 live births, rising to 695 in 1999 before declining to 555 between 2005 and 2006. ...Read more

Zimbabweans on ARV uptake doubles

2012 May 13 | 581 Views
The number of Zimbabweans on anti-retroviral therapy (ART) has almost doubled to over half a millionwhile 115 577 are on the waiting list to start the life-saving treatment.This is a massive jump from...

by Staff reporter

UZ starts offering certificate in traditional medicine

2012 May 09 | 494 Views
THE University of Zimbabwe has started offering a six-month-long certificate in traditional medicine with a two-week block release. The certificate is being offered in conjunction with the Traditiona...

by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe will keep training nurses - No jobs to offer them after training

2012 May 06 | 950 Views
A Cabinet minister has disclosed that the Zimbabwe government will continue training nurses although it is not in a position to offer them employment soon after completion of the three-year course.Hea...

by Bhebhe Mandla

Grassrootssoccer embarks on a door-to-door male circumcision campaign

2012 May 05 | 716 Views
A Bulawayo-based non-profit making organisation, Grassrootssoccer, in conjunction with Population Services International (PSI) has embarked on a door-to-door male circumcision campaign, as part of eff...

by Stasff reporter

Shurugwi hospital attaches patients' property - household furniture and chickens

2012 May 01 | 920 Views
Residents and villagers in Shurugwi have reportedly lost property that includes household furniture and chickens in the blitz by debt collectors engaged by the Shurugwi District Hospital ."The stance ...

by Staff reporter

MDC offcial initiate blanket procurement scheme for rural clinics

2012 April 28 | 1334 Views
MDC secretary general Pricilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga has initiated a campaign to procure blankets for maternity wings targeting clinics in rural areas to cater for pregnant women.Misihairabwi-Mushonga...

by Alois Sibanda

Global Fund agrees to release US$236m for Zimbabwe

2012 April 27 | 1173 Views
THE Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) has agreed to release US$236 million for Zimbabwe’s health sector to combat the three diseases. The money will cover programmes to b...

by Staff reporter

STIs on the rise in Zimbabwe, Masvingo topping the list

2012 April 22 | 2345 Views
Zimbabwe has recorded a sharp increase in the incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) with Masvingo topping the list of the country's 10 provinces.The National Aids Council (Nac) 2011 Annu...

by Staff reports

Zim abortions kills 20 000 women every year - report

2012 April 21 | 1332 Views
AS MUCH AS 20,000 Zimbabwean women are dying annually during illegal abortions and child birth, a new report by 27 non-governmental organisations says.Abortion is illegal in Zimbabwe, and the NGOs �...

by Staff reporter

Govt to introduce two new vaccines

2012 April 13 | 1323 Views
Government is set to introduce two new vaccines which prevent pneumonia and meningitis this June, a move expected to change the immunisation schedule from six weeks going onwards.The introduction of t...

by Staff reporter

National Blood Services Zimbabwe (NBSZ) selling blood below cost

2012 April 09 | 1056 Views
THE National Blood Services Zimbabwe (NBSZ) is selling donated blood at well below the cost of testing, processing and storing each unit and has to rely on grants and aid schemes. NBSZ public affairs ...

by Staff reporter

Mpofu's constituents fail to access ARVs

2012 April 09 | 1199 Views
More than 60 000 people from rich and influential Mines and Mining Development Minister Obert Mpofu's Umguza constituency are living in risk of failing to access anti-retroviral drugs due to budgetary...

by Thomas Jubane

Bulawayo pharmacy banned for selling unregistered drugs

2012 March 30 | 545 Views
A Bulawayo pharmacy, SuperMed has had its license cancelled by the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe for violating trade regulations.The pharmacy was accused of selling unregistered drugs and d...

by Thomas Jubane

Thokozani Khuphe to open cancer centre

2012 March 27 | 565 Views
Makokoba Member of Parliament and Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe has revealed plans to open a cancer centre named Thoko Cancer Foundation at the end of April.Speaking during a tour of cancer f...

by Thomas Jubane

Zimbabwe observes World TB Day

2012 March 25 | 523 Views
A local men's advocacy group has yesterday urged Zimbabweans to fight TB by practicing strict hygiene.Padare Men's Forum, which rallies men to shun violence against women and anti-social behaviour, to...

by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe govt fails to curb typhoid outbreak

2012 March 25 | 551 Views
The Ministry of Health and Child Welfare is yet to receive money to fight a typhoid outbreak that has since gone national.Health Minister Dr Henry Madzorera disclosed that all they have been getting ...

by Staff reports

Local company to manufacture a patented cancer drug

2012 March 21 | 502 Views
The Zimbabwe Medical Association (ZIMA) says the recent ruling in India permitting a local company to manufacture a generic copy of a patented cancer drug to make it affordable to the poor is a typica...

by Staff reporter

Sex deprived fruit flies seek solace in drink

2012 March 18 | 519 Views
In experiments seeking to understand the root causes of human addiction, UCSF scientists have discovered that male fruit flies turn to alcohol when female flies reject their sexual advances.When the ...

by Staff Reporter

Typhoid continues to spread in Harare suburbs

2012 March 04 | 487 Views
Cases of typhoid in several suburbs of Harare continue to increase with about 3 000 cases reported at the end of last week compared to 2 816 from the previous week. Harare City Council confirmed that ...

by Staff reporter

Zim to offer free healthcare starting May

2012 March 02 | 516 Views
Zimbabwe will from May start offering free health care to pregnant women, children and the elderly in what has been described as a giant leap for a country still emerging from a decade long economic r...

by Staff reporter

Reprieve for Zimbabwe's HIV patients as Global Fund extends funding

2012 March 02 | 516 Views
GLOBAL Fund has extended its financial support on combating HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe to December 2014.Marcela Rojo, a media officer with Global Fund told Bulawayo24 News that the extension is "to avoid d...

by Alosi Sibanda

Female, male psychiatric patients housed in the same hospital ward

2012 March 01 | 579 Views
Psychiatric patients of both sexes at Gweru Hospital are reported to be housed at the same ward to the extent that patients have been caught having sex and some striping naked in front of each...

by Alois Sibanda

Global Fund to withdraw ARV drug support by 2013

2012 March 05 | 558 Views
HIV patients in Zimbabwe could be in for major health nightmares after a senior health official disclosed that the Global Fund would withdraw its ARV drug support in 2013, however Marcela Rojo Media ...

by Alois Sibanda

Typhoid outbreak spreads nationwide

2012 February 28 | 500 Views
The typhoid outbreak has spread to other centres with more cases reported in two provinces. Government has indicated that it does not have adequate resources to deal with the outbreak.Typhoid cases ha...

by Staff reporter

131 nurses graduate at St Luke's Mission Hospital in Lupane

2012 February 27 | 550 Views
A TOTAL of 131 students graduated at St Luke's Mission Hospital in Lupane after completing courses in nursing and midwifery. Of the 131 graduands, 80 received certificates in midwifery after completin...

by Staff reporter

Bulawayo woman appeals for financial assistance

2012 February 22 | 523 Views
A 21-year-old Bulawayo woman is appealing for financial assistance to take her daughter who has a ruptured bladder for a scan. The girl was hit by a car last year in an accident that left her with a d...

by Staff reporter

Flawed Studies Used to Claim Circumcision Reduces HIV Infection

2012 February 20 | 565 Views
BOSTON - An article in the December Journal of Law and Medicine cites numerous flaws in three African studies that claim male circumcision reduces transmission of HIV. (see: the article here)Accordin...

by Salem-News.com

National Aids Council to put 70K more people on ARVs

2012 February 20 | 514 Views
National Aids Council (NAC) chief executive officer Dr Tapuwa Magure last week said owing to the stabilisation of the economy, the National Aids Trust Fund is expected to put 70 000 more people on ARV...

by Staff reporter

Cases of HIV positive pregnant women on the rise in Victoria Falls

2012 February 10 | 673 Views
A total of 70 pregnant women out of 380 that were booked at Chinotimba Clinic in Victoria Falls last year tested positive to the HIV virus, the Chronicle reported.This was revealed by the clinic's si...

by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe to 'export' jobless nurses

2012 February 06 | 543 Views
GOVERNMENT is working on modalities to "export" unemployed nurses to work in other countries, mostly in the Sadc region.Deputy Minister of Health and Child Welfare, Douglas Mombeshora, said arrangeme...

by Staff reporter

Dr Madzorera dismisses Zanu-PF claims on typhoid

2012 February 01 | 509 Views
The Minister of Health and Child Welfare, Dr. Henry Madzorera has dismissed claims by some Zanu PF officials and the State media that the current outbreak of cholera was as a result of biological war...

by Ndou Paul

Harare braces for diarrhoea outbreak

2012 January 21 | 492 Views
OVER 250 people from Kuwadzana 3 and 4 in Harare have been treated of severe diarrhoea while 40 critical cases have been admitted at the Beatrice Infectious Diseases Hospital. The city is preparing fo...

by Staff reporter

Door to door HIV testing for Zimbabweans

2012 January 20 | 494 Views
HEALTH Minister Henry Madzorera has unveiled controversial new plans for door-to-door HIV testing countrywide.Madzorera said Wednesday his ministry is training thousands of volunteers who will knock o...

by Staff reporter

Govt suspends bonding of nurses with immediate effect

2012 January 07 | 516 Views
GOVERNMENT has, with immediate effect, suspended the bonding of nurses until it has the capacity to employ them, the state controlled Chronicle reported.Human resources director in the Ministry of Hea...

by Staff reporter

Cervical cancer vaccine to be introduced in Zimbabwe

2012 January 02 | 542 Views
The proposed introduction of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in Zimbabwe will result in a marked reduction of women who develop cervical cancer, medical experts have said.The HPV vaccine is a p...

by staff reporter

Kenya recalls one million HIV testing kits

2011 December 31 | 510 Views
Kenya has recalled one million HIV testing kits because of fears about their accuracy, a health official has said.The WHO had raised an alert about the kit after finding half the test results could be...

by Staff reporter

Bird flu case reported in China

2011 December 31 | 486 Views
A 39-year-old man in a southern Chinese hospital is suffering from what appears to be a contagious strain of avian flu, state media reported Friday.The man -- identified by Xinhua as a bus driver with...

by Moyo Roy

Medical cover package for blood donors: NBSZ

2011 December 30 | 497 Views
The National Blood Service Zimbabwe (NBSZ) has embarked on a programme to identify and assist blood donors who make a mark in promoting the culture of donating blood by giving them medical cover.The i...

by Staff reporter

Uptake of female condom is significantly low

2011 December 28 | 497 Views
The uptake of the female condom remains low compared to male condoms as women fail to negotiate safe sex, the Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council says.Speaking during a journalists' training sem...

by Staff reporter

'Homophobia and corruption' lead to student nurse suicide

2011 December 23 | 553 Views
Mandlenkosi Ndlovu (38), a third year student nurse at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo apparently committed suicide on Wednesday morning by jumping from the roof of a three-storey building at the h...

by Staff reporter

25% drop in Malaria death rate

2011 December 18 | 549 Views
The United Nations says the expansion of malaria prevention and control measures have resulted in a decline of more than 25% in the number of deaths caused by the disease in the past decade in Afric...

by Moyo Roy

655,000 people died from Malaria in 2010, 91% from Africa: WHO

2011 December 14 | 599 Views
Malaria caused the death of an estimated 655,000 people last year, with 86 percent of victims children aged under five, World Health Organisation figures showed on Tuesday. The figure marked a five pe...

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Zim WOMEN pushing for the approval of re-usable sanitary pads

2011 December 12 | 595 Views
Zim WOMEN are pushing for the approval of a locally developed re-usable sanitary pad to improve the sexual reproductive health of females in disadvantaged areas.The campaign is being led by the Minis...

by Staff reporter

Catholic nuns should go on contraceptives - expert

2011 December 08 | 521 Views
The Catholic Church should pay for nuns to go on contraceptive pills to cut the extra cancer risk that comes with a life of celibacy, Australian cancer experts said Thursday.The world's 94,790 nuns "...

by Sapa-dpa

MDC calls for increase in ARVs availability

2011 December 01 | 473 Views
The MDC joins the rest of the world in commemorating the World Aids Day with a call to the inclusive government to increase the distribution of antiretrovirals (ARVs) across the country.The theme for...

by MDC

Mugabe Hails HIV Fight - World Aids Day,

2011 December 01 | 490 Views
Despite the declining rate of HIV prevalence in Zimbabwe, the country still needs to expand on the prevention of mother -to-child transmission while increasing the number of facilities that provide H...

by Staff reporter

Zim diarrhoeal cases triple

2011 December 01 | 512 Views
REPORTED diarrhoeal cases throughout the country have tripled this year compared to last year affecting mostly children under five years, a Cabinet Minister has said.Speaking to journalists during a ...

by Staff reporter

NAC urges Leaders to promote HIV reduction

2011 November 30 | 487 Views
The National AIDS Council (NAC) says the goal to eliminate any new HIV infections can be won if leaders at all levels respond to the epidemic through community mobilisation for social and behavioural ...

by Staff reporter

Tenofovir gel can not prevent Aids, users urged to stop using it

2011 November 29 | 476 Views
Johannesburg - A vaginal gel researchers had hoped would help prevent HIV transmission for women is ineffective, according to a report on Tuesday.Researchers leading the Tenofovir gel study at 15 site...

by Ndou Paul

More people living with the Aids virus

2011 November 25 | 463 Views
London - More people than ever are living with the Aids virus but this is largely due to better access to drugs that keep HIV patients alive and well for many years, the United Nations Aids programme ...

by Reuters

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