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Zimbabwe: Mobile Refill for TB, ART Patients
The Herald, 2 September 2020
PEOPLE living with HIV and those with tuberculosis can now collect their medication from mobile refill centres in Harare. Read more »
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Zimbabwe: USAID Ends Tuberculosis Grant, As TB Incidence Decline
263Chat, 31 January 2020
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has closed the US$25 million -Challenge TB grant for Zimbabwe, following an end to its five year tenure. Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Natpharm Allays ARVs Shortage Fears
The Herald, 31 August 2020
Natpharm has assured Zimbabweans on second regimen antiretroviral treatment that the current stocks which are low will be expeditiously replenished. Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Country Hit By TB Drug Shortage
263Chat, 5 October 2020
The Ministry of Health and Child Care has raised alarm over the shortage of Tuberculosis drugs essential for HIV/TB treatment. Read more »
Shortage of TB Drugs Poses Public Health Threat in Zimbabwe
The Ministry of Health and Child Care has raised the alarm over the shortage of Tuberculosis drugs essential for HIV/TB treatment. This comes barely a month after thousands of nurses called off their three-month strike over salaries and Covid-19 protective gear. The shortage of TB medication presents serious problems for the understaffed healthcare sector and may lead to weaker immune systems, making way for other opportunistic diseases. In Zimbabwe, it is estimated that about 30,000 people fall ill from TB each year, and about 4,600, die.
InFocus
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Zimbabwe has given the nod for international flights to resume, in an effort to revive the economy, six months after it was forced to close its borders to stem the spread of the ... Read more »
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Thousands of striking nurses have called off their strike over pay disputes and Covid-19 protective gear, three months after walking out of public hospital wards. According to ... Read more »
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In a rather shocking development, the government has stopped footing the medical bills of all senior government officials in order to maintain the national medical bill, Vice ... Read more »
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Years of neglect and doctors' strikes have pushed the Zimbabwean health system to the brink. Senior doctors have now gone on strike, joining junior doctors and nurses who walked ... Read more »
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Local organisations involved in HIV and Aids advocacy will on July 4, march against government's reluctance to address the critical shortage of antiretroviral drugs in the country. ... Read more »
