Community Health Centres are a welcome move in the country’s health services delivery system in as far as decentralising and decongesting district health centres.Bende health post is one of the many community health centres, which are set to be rolled out countywide.
Manicaland’s HIV prevalence rate at 11%, is the lowest in the country, Deputy Minister of Health and Child Care Honorable Deputy Aldrin Musiiwa has said.
Hon Musiiwa revealed this at the Family Aids Care Trust 30th anniversary commemoration in Mutare, last week on Thursday.
Dr David Parirenyatwa interacts with patients at a typhoid screening centre in Mbare
Ministry of health has allayed fears on the typhoid scourge following reported cases in Harare, insisting that mechanisms have been put in place to curb the spreading of the disease.
In an interview yesterday after touring Matapi Clinic in Harare where 123 typhoid patients were screened, Minister of Health and Child Care Dr David Parirenyatwa said the typhoid outbreak that hit Mbare, Harare, in the last few days is now under control, but urged all residents to be vigilant as they remain under threat of contracting the water-borne disease.
Government is making efforts to establish an Inter-Ministerial Task Force on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) because such diseases need a multi-sectoral response, President Mugabe has said. NCDs are chronic diseases that cannot be passed from person-to-person and include cancer, diabetes, chronic respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.
World Health Organization (WHO) is organizing the Global Conference on Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs): Enhancing policy coherence between different spheres of policy making that have a bearing on attaining SDG target 3.4 on NCDs to, by 2030, reduce by one third
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