Health

Using WhatsApp to access health care in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwean innovators have built a chatbot connecting pharmaceutical drug vendors and registered health-service providers to customers. It is used via
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Inside makeshift maternity wards of Harare; one shrine in Hopley houses 24 pregnant women

Although medical professionals warn about risks, DIY midwifery remains alive and well in a country where affordable and accessible institutional
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Tanzania, Rwanda, Zimbabwe join African recall of J&J cough syrup

By Reuters KIGALI: Drug regulators in Tanzania, Rwanda and Zimbabwe have recalled a batch of Johnson & Johnson children’s cough
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Zimbabwe introduces HIV prevention injection that lasts for 2 Months

By Agencies A new drug has been introduced by Zimbabwe that can prevent HIV for 2 months. The revolutionary HIV
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Faith leaders in Zimbabwe set aside differences to fight cholera and polio

By unicef.org MUTARE: A traditional healer since 1985, Casemore Darare is all too familiar with medicinal herbs. His services are
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UK: Kate, Princess of Wales, says she has cancer

By Reuters LONDON: Kate, Britain’s Princess of Wales, said on Friday she was undergoing preventative chemotherapy after tests taken after
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KARANDA: Rural clinic offers respite for priced out patients amid Zimbabwe’s health crisis

By Mary Taruvinga for AFP Outside a hospital in rural Zimbabwe, scores of people wait patiently under trees or inside
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Zimbabweans the biggest consumers of alcohol in the world – report shows

By A Riddell I mashed.com The world’s biggest consumer by the litre, however, is Zimbabwe — and not by a
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Zimbabwe extends cholera vaccination amid declining new cases

By Agencies HARARE: The Zimbabwean government on Tuesday extended oral cholera vaccination in the capital Harare amid a marked decline
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‘They could have done more’: Zimbabweans slam government’s anti-cholera campaign

By AL JAZEERA HARARE: When Priscilla Moyo’s husband Brian returned home to Harare from Mvurwi, about 100km north of the
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