AT LEAST 60 young people committed suicide since the beginning of the year as drug abuse cases continue to increase among the youths, Young People Mental Health Trust (YOPETALTH), has said. According to the organisation, which focuses on mental health issues among young people, the situation was further worsened by the Covid-19 virus as many…
ORGANISATION for Public Health Interventions and Developments (Ophid) has partnered various apostolic sect church leaders to raise awareness on behavioural change and the importance of taking medication among congregants living with HIV. This comes as a number of apostolic sect congregants have been abandoning their medication, amid claims they could miraculously get healed through prayers,…
THE Adult Rape Clinic (ARC) has launched a campaign that encourages victims of the crime to seek medical assistance within 72 hours to protect them from contracting HIV/Aids and pregnancies. This comes as rape victims generally take time to report to police because of the stigma associated with the crime. ARC founder Memory…
THE Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (Mcaz) has created a platform which can be used by the public and health practitioners to report side effects of Covid-19 vaccines and other medicines. Zimbabwe launched its national Covid-19 inoculation programme in February after receiving SinoPharm and SinoVac doses from the Chinese government. When the pandemic broke out…
OVER 140 000 workers in the transport sector in the capital lost their jobs owing to measures put in place by the government to curtail the Covid-19 pandemic, the secretary-general of Greater Harare Commuter Omnibus Association (GHACO), Ngoni Katsvairo has said. Katsvairo told the media recently that 49 000 kombis, each employing a driver, conductor…
ZIMBABWE continues to make significant inroads in the fight against HIV/Aids with latest figures showing that the country’s mortality rate has declined by 71,9 percent. This comes as the National Aids Council (Nac) and the entire health delivery system have been implementing high impact geo-targeted interventions like the 90-90-90 and Prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT)…
SANITARY Aid Zimbabwe Trust (SAZT) has called on the government to urgently provide funds for prisons to procure sanitary wear for inmates. This comes as a recent tour of Zimbabwe’s prisons revealed that female inmates were struggling to cope with their menstrual cycles as the facilities do not offer them any sanitary wear. The vote…
Tariro Sajeni STAFF WRITER sajenit@dailynews.co.zw PERSONS with disabilities face exclusion from birth and are finding it difficult to sustain their livelihoods because they are continuously excluded from opportunities, a local rights body for the disabled has said. In an interview last week, Nkomwa Foundation Trust (NFT) leader Pick Nkomwa said there was a need for…
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga says Zimbabwe is now battling to eradicate drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) at a time when the health delivery system is stretched by the Covid-19 pandemic. This comes as data from the World Health Organisation (WHO) showed that globally, 1,4 million people from over 80 countries faced challenges in accessing TB treatment in…
