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On World Population Day the Government of Zimbabwe and partners officially opened Tariro Clinic and Youth Centre in the Hopley area. The facilities were constructed by City of Harare through a skills development project for young people that was supported by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), International Labour Organisation
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Obesity has now overtaken smoking as the leading cause of four major types of cancer, figures reveal. Being overweight is now to blame for thousands more cases of bowel, kidney, liver and ovarian cancer than tobacco use. And obese adults in the UK outnumbered smokers by two to one, a report by
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A Mabvuku woman allegedly fatally pushed her friend onto a hard surface after an altercation over a mobile phone SIM card. The NewsDay reports that Alice Jarison was drinking with her friend, now deceased Charity Diamond Wiseman in Mabvuku on Sunday morning. It is reported that whilst the two were drinking an
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UK Prime minister Theresa May has urged international leaders at the G20 summit in Japan to follow the UK's lead and commit to fighting the world’s three biggest infectious disease killers, as she unveiled a £1.4 billion funding pledge. In one of her final acts as prime minister Mrs May announced
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A JUNIOR member of parliament has admitted Zimbabwean minors were prepared to contract HIV/Aids by offering themselves to older sex partners for as long as they were guaranteed of receiving money to buy food. Leslie Tendayi, Junior MP for Mbare, made the startling admission Friday at the launch of Age of
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An outbreak of diarrhoea has been reported in parts of Harare’s Glen View, Budiriro and Glen Norah suburbs where over 22 people, mostly children, have been affected by the disease. The three high-density suburbs were epicentres for the cholera outbreak which claimed over 54 people late last year. Harare City Council
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New study finds some African nations have five-fold disparities in numbers of people infected with HIV SEATTLE–Despite the rapid scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART) since 2000, HIV/AIDS is still the most common cause of death in sub-Saharan Africa, according to data from the Global Burden of Disease. In Zimbabwe, GBD data
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Caption: l-r Mrs Sara Fox co-founder of MHS; H.E Rene Cremonese, Ambassador of Canada to Zimbabwe and his wife Mary Jean Comfort; and Mrs Ernestine Paterson, co-founder of MHS. ...Introduces two cutting edge sanitary wears The Menstrual Health Specialists Trust was launched at the Canadian Ambassador’s Residence. This exciting new Trust
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– Donation Provides up to 2.4 Million Free Bottles Annually to Uninsured Americans at Risk for HIV FOSTER CITY, Calif: Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD) Thursday announced that it will donate Truvada for PrEP® (emtricitabine 200 mg and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 300 mg tablets) to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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A 22-year old Mwenezi woman who had an illicit affair while her husband was in prison dug a hole in a riverbed and buried her newly born baby alive after getting news that the husband was just about to be released from prison. Enita Zhou of Village 4 Khayalami under Chief
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