What lessons can we learn for today from the 2008-09 cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe?
The health minister has returned to the portfolio he left in crisis five years ago.
Zimbabwe’s cholera epidemic could get worse as the rainy season peaks, its health minister said on Monday.
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/ 4 December 2008
Zimbabwe declared a national emergency over a cholera epidemic and the collapse of its health care system, and state media reported on Thursday.
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/ 30 November 2008
Zimbabwe’s Health Minister insisted on Sunday that the country’s crumbling medical system was taking all necessary measures to combat cholera.
Zimbabwe’s Health Minister, Dr David Parirenyatwa, armed himself with a Kalashnikov and threatened to kill opposition supporters forced to attend a political meeting unless they voted for President Robert Mugabe in a second round of the presidential election, according to witnesses.
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/ 19 February 2008
A cholera outbreak in Mashonaland East and Central provinces that claimed at least 11 lives is now under control. The Minister of Health and Child Welfare Dr David Parirenyatwa said the epidemic taskforce committee was on the lookout for any suspected cholera cases in Nyamukuyo Village in Mudzi.
A diarrhoea outbreak has hit Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, following weeks of uncollected garbage, sewer blockages and erratic water supplies, the state-owned Herald daily reported on Friday. More than 400 cases of diarrhoea have been recorded in Mabvuku and Tafara, two of the capital’s suburbs, but there is no confirmation of deaths.
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/ 30 December 2007
Zimbabwe’s state-employed junior doctors and nurses are on strike for higher pay, putting further strain on the country’s crumbling public healthcare facilities. Doctors and nurses have staged a series of strikes in recent years as their salaries have been steadily eroded by the world’s highest inflation rate.
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/ 31 October 2007
Zimbabwe has registered a 2,5% decline in the prevalence of HIV to 15,6% of the population, the authorities revealed in Harare on Wednesday. The latest decline is from 18,1% of the population in 2006 to 15,6% this year, or one in every seven people, Health Ministry officials were quoted as saying.
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/ 10 September 2007
Aids drugs — some of them contaminated, diluted or faked — are being sold at flea markets and hairdressing salons in the face of growing shortages in clinics struggling under Zimbabwe’s economic crisis, the Health Ministry said. State media quoted Minister of Health David Parirenyatwa on Monday as appealing to people living with HIV/Aids to buy their medicines from registered pharmacies.
Hundreds of hard-line supporters of Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe will stage a show of strength in support of the veteran president in the capital, Harare, on Wednesday, organisers said. ”The solidarity march is in support of President Robert Mugabe and his policies,” said Joseph Chinotimba of the war veterans’ association.