Category: Health
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Africa needs to increase research on pandemics: experts
Hazvinei Mwanaka NAIROBI, KENYA– African countries should increase research in pandemics as they are lagging behind, prompting them to rely on outside studies, experts have said. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines a pandemic as a disease outbreak that has spread across multiple countries and continents and usually impacts many people. Speaking…
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Include young people in SRHR issues: expert
Hazvinei Mwanaka Government and organizations that deal with adolescents have been urged to include and impart them with the necessary information on Sexual Reproductive and Health Rights (SRHR) so that they are not victims of misinformation and disinformation. Speaking during a workshop on SRHR recently in Harare, Diana Mailosi, coordinator for the Advocacy Core Team…
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COVID 19 vaccination fatigue hits Zimbabwe
Hazvinei Mwanaka MASVINGO- Low COVID 19 vaccine uptake in communities has been attributed to misinformation and religious beliefs in some churches hence the need for proactive awareness programs, a health expert has said. Speaking to journalists last week during a Science Café meeting organized by Health Communicators Forum (HCF), Community Working Group on Health (CWGH)…
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Child headed families suffering in silence
Hazvinei Mwanaka MASVINGO – It’s often said that it takes a village to raise a child. But for Martha Moyo 17* (not real name), from Gutu, her village turned its back on her. After being impregnated at a tender age, Moyo is one of the many children in the country who endured the burden of…
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Teenage pregnancies: Time to act
Hazvinei Mwanaka. The shocking story of a nine year old Tsholotsho girl who fell pregnant made sad reading. She has since given birth by cesarean section. Barely a week later, another nine year old Bindura girl is reported to be pregnant. While previous reports of teen pregnancies were reported in the media, these two cases…
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Masvingo flood survivors drink untreated water
Hazvinei Mwanaka and Tatenda Chitagu MWENEZI-Martha Moyo (24) lives a stone’s throw away from a borehole drilled by a humanitarian organisation a few years after she was resettled in Nuanetsi Ranch in the hot and arid Mwenezi district of Masvingo province in 2014. But she barely remembers when last she fetched water from it. “I…
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People affected by COVID 19 yearn for counselling
Hazvinei Mwanaka MASVINGO- Every time she catches a cold, her heart starts beating faster. The vivid picture of her ill grandmother lying down on a mat deeply agonized with pain is still lingering in the back of her mind. “If I could erase a moment in my life is the time I nursed my sick…