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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

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.

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.

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.

Zimbabwe revives sleeping sickness case detection and management

04 March 2022

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WHO providing free health services at a outreach point in Chimanimani

More than 45 000 people benefit from free health care services in Chipinge and Chima...

24 February 2022

Chimanimani, Zimbabwe - Over the past two years more than 45 000 people in the Cyclone Idai affected communities have benefited from free integrated health and Gender Based Violence (GBV) services provided by WHO, UNICEF, UNOPS-CI and UNFPA under the Zimbabwe Cyclone Idai Recovery Project (ZIRP).

Strengthening management of childhood cancer in Zimbabwe

30 November 2021

By Vivian Mugarisi

Zimbabwe receives nearly one million COVID-19 vaccine doses from COVAX

01 October 2021

Zimbabwe has received 943,200 COVID-19 vaccine doses from the global COVAX Facility to complement ongoing national vaccine deployment.

Zimbabwe tackles typhoid with new vaccination campaign

07 July 2021

Constane Sigu was watching television at home one evening in Bulawayo in southwest Zimbabwe when the Ministry of Health and Child Care’s (MoHCC) advertisement for its new Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine (TCV) campaign caught her attention.

Zimbabwe launches typhoid conjugate vaccine

07 July 2021

Over four million children in Zimbabwe have received a lifesaving new Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine . At the end of May, Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Health and Child Care embarked on a 10-day multi-antigen vaccination drive aimed at children aged between 9 months and 15 years.

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