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Ministry of Health and Childcare conducting a quantification of house screening materials in Chiredzi

Zimbabwe Piloting Non-Chemical Based Malaria Prevention Measures in Chiredzi

16 August 2022

By Tatenda Chimbwanda

Tendai Westerhof, HIV Advocate

12 August 2022

As director of a national network of women living with HIV in Zimbabwe, Tendai Westerhof was used to challenging stigma.

Zimbabwe reviews implementation of TB Preventive Therapy

18 July 2022

By Vivian Mugarisi

Zimbabwe updates National Cancer Control Plan to mitigate the increase of cases in t...

27 June 2022

By Tatenda Chimbwanda

Mental Health in the workplace graduation

Promoting mental health in the workplace in Zimbabwe

16 May 2022

By Tatenda Chimbwanda

National Microbiology Reference Laboratory Scientists processing Tricycle samples on Vitek 2 machine

High level of resistant bacteria circulating in the environment, food chain and comm...

12 May 2022

By Tatenda Chimbwanda

Child receiving her deworming medication during the campaign

Over 1.8 million children receive treatment for bilharzia and intestinal worms

28 April 2022

By Vivian Mugarisi

MoHCC giving remarks during the World Health Day Commemoration in Harare

Government of Zimbabwe joins the rest of the world to commemorate World Health Day

07 April 2022

7 April 2022 - Today, The Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) joins the rest of the world to mark World Health Day 2022. This year’s theme “Our planet: Our health” advocates for global attention on urgent actions needed to keep humans and the planet healthy and foster a movement to create societies focused on well-being.

Increasing momentum to address Antimicrobial Resistance in Zimbabwe: Commitment of t...

11 April 2022

Harare, Zimbabwe – The first global assessment of the burden of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) revealed that nearly 5 million deaths in 2019 [1] were associated with drug-resistant infections.

Beating the resistance: tuberculosis treatment switch in Zimbabwe

24 March 2022

Harare – Nothando Moyo* contemplated giving up treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis “even if it meant I would die,” she admits. The months-long treatment for the drug-resistant strain—which does not respond to the two most effective drugs—entailed daily injections which Moyo, a resident of Zimbabwe’s Bulawayo city, found painful to bear.

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