Category: Medical

HARARE-- Local authorities must continue to improve sanitation and the availability of clean water to prevent cholera as vaccination is not 100 percent effective, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.The latest cholera outbreak to hit Zimbabwe ...

The United Nations in Zimbabwe is reaffirming that people living with HIV and AIDS need to continue with antiretroviral (ARV) therapy to manage their infections, after a local preacher reportedly claimed that he had received divine revelation of an her...

The opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) led by Nelson Chamisa on Saturday "installed" the 40-year-old lawyer as president of Zimbabwe, two months after President Emmerson Mnangagwa was declared by the Constitutional Court as winner of the c...

HARARE-- Prevailing foreign currency shortages in Zimbabwe are hitting hard on patients who are now being forced by some dispensaries to pay for medication in foreign currency while some doctors and health institutions are now also demanding the same.O...

HARARE-- A regional development finance institution, the Trade and Development Bank (TDB) based in Bujumbura, Burundi , formerly known as the PTA Bank, has announced a 3.0 million US dollars facility to support small to medium enterprises (SMEs) in Zim...

HARARE� Zimbabwe's Tobacco Research Board (TRB) says the country cannot adopt genetically modified organism (GMO) tobacco as no country has accepted it as yet.The Government is on record saying the country is being cautious on policies to allow GMO cro...

HARARE-- Zimbabwe produced a new record high 252.5 million kilogrammes of tobacco during the 2017/18 cropping season, topping the 236 million kg achieved in the year 2000 and representing a 34 per cent increase from last year.Addressing a workshop on t...