Zimbabwe News

Harare, 28 Nov. 2013 -- Zimbabwe commemorated a belated World Health Day at the WHO Annex Boardroom under the theme: High blood pressure: WHO + YOU = The key to living longer. The event, which was attended by health workers, partners, members of the public and policy makers focused on raising awareness of the risk factors and consequences of raised blood pressure (also known as high blood pressure or hypertension).

Harare, 3 Dec. 2013 -- On 1st December Zimbabwe joined the rest of the world in commemorating World AIDS Day at a grand event held at Garwe Stadium in Chivhu. The event, which was held under the theme: Getting to zero new infections; zero discrimination, and zero AIDS related deaths, and the slogan My responsibility, your responsibility; brought together people living with HIV, AIDS activ-ists, partners, donors and members of the Chivhu community among others.

Harare - 10 Dec. 2013 A Regional con-sultation to develop a Regional Action Plan and targets for integrating oral dis-eases into NCDs prevention and control in the African Region was officially opened by Dr David Okello, WHO Repre-sentative and IST/ESA Coordinator in Harare.

Harare 19 Feb. 2014 -- A Social Determinants of Health Working Group Orientation Meeting was held in Harare. The meeting, which was attended by Focal Persons from 10 ministries in the Govern-ment of Zimbabwe, including the Office of the Presi-dent and Cabinet and the Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC), marks the birth of the Social Determinants of Health Working Group.

Harare, 25 Feb 2014 -- The Government Counselor for External Relations of the Principality of Monaco, M. José Badia and IST/ESA Coordinator, Dr David Okello signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the 2nd phase of the accelerated malaria control towards pre-elimination in East and Southern Africa by 2015 project.

Harare, 4 Mar 2014 -- The Government Counselor for External Relations of the Principality of Monaco, M. José Badia and his delegation together with WHO and Ministry of Health and Child Care officials, undertook field visits to Mashonaland West province which has some of the malaria high burden districts. During the first leg of the field visit, the team visited Chinhoyi Provincial Hospital, where the key finding was a drastic reduction in the malaria case load.

Masvingo: 16 March 2014. The National Rapid Response Team (NRRT) conducted a third monitoring and support visit of the Chingwizi relocation camp which houses Tokwe-Mukorsi Dam flood victims. The visit was made at the recommendation of the Inter Agency Coordination Committee on Health (IACCH), with financial and technical support from the Zimbabwe WCO .

Chitungwiza: 27 March 2014 - Zimbabwe held a belated World TB Day Commemoration under the theme “Reach the 3 million” and the slogan “Find. Treat. Cure TB”. The belated commemoration was held at Chitungwiza Town Centre in the dormitory town of Chitungwiza, about 30km from Harare. Mem- bers of the public from the town, partners and government officials were part of the well-attended commemoration.

Nyamapanda: 16 April 2014. Zimbabwe welcomed the Racing Against Malaria 2 (RAM2) convoy at Nyamapanda border post which borders Zimbabwe with Mozambique. RAM is a regional advocacy campaign aimed at raising malaria awareness in communities in malaria endemic SADC countries. This year’s RAM started in Malawi on the 14th of April 2014 and is running under the theme “A malaria free SADC: Moving towards malaria elimination by 2020”. The RAM convoy will drive through Zimbabwe, Zambia and Botswana reaching Angola on the 25th of April.

Shamva, Zimbabwe: 06 June 2014 - The World Health Organization Country Office in Zimbabwe joined the Ministry of Health and Child Care during the belated 2014 World Health Day commemoration. Over 400 people including community members and school children from Shamva district, traditional and political leaders, health workers at Primary health care, district, provincial and national levels, other government officials and the media participated.