Health

8 years ago | November 1, 2015

Bacon, sausages as bad as smoking

Shamiso Yikoniko Bacon, sausages, biltong and ham cause cancer in pretty much the same way smoking does, the latest ...

Battling to keep Harare Hospital alive

Shamiso Yikoniko Harare Central Hospital, one of Zimbabwe’s biggest referral health institutions, is in dire straits. ...

8 years ago | October 25, 2015

HIV secret leads to thousands of deaths

Thousands of children living with HIV in the zero-14 years age group have died in recent years as their parents failed ...

UZ in bid to raise cancer awareness

Extra Reporter In a bid to raise awareness for cancer, University of Zimbabwe (UZ) and College of Health Sciences ...

9 years ago | October 4, 2015

‘ART model should go national’

Sharon Kavhu Zimbabwe has made strides in anti-retroviral treatment (ART) service provision and, among other ...

9 years ago | September 20, 2015

Students speak on condom distribution

As the rate of teen pregnancies is rising in the country, several ways to avoid them have been raised and implemented ...

9 years ago | September 13, 2015

Brave Tambu’s battle with cancer

When the couple welcomed their daughter Pearl into the world in 2010, there was no hint of the illness that was to ...

Results on HIV study expected next year

Barely a fortnight after the University of Zimbabwe-University of California San Francisco Collaborative Research ...

9 years ago | September 6, 2015

Tarisai’s painful journey with genital warts

Medical experts have said that Tarisai Batoni, the young woman who recently appeared in our sister paper Kwayedza ...

9 years ago | August 30, 2015

Health institutions revert to WHO methods

Shamiso Yikoniko Health Reporter Defective CD4 count machines have forced some health institutions to revert back to ...

Chronic curse of lifestyle choices

Shamiso Yikoniko Health Reporter Smoking, alcohol abuse, high-fat diets and physical inactivity — all lifestyle ...

9 years ago | August 23, 2015

The new public health threat

Shamiso Yikoniko recently in Zvishavane Incessant coughing had become the order of day for 26-year-old Ms Irene Mugova ...

Silent but deadly STIs affecting women

There are “silent” sexually transmitted infections that are haunting women, usually leading to infertility, ectopic ...

9 years ago | August 16, 2015

Government lab needs capacitation

On entering the toxicology department at the Government Analyst Laboratory in Harare, one is greeted by the smell of ...