Rebuilding Zimbabwe’s Health System

Zimbabwe HNN Team

Zimbabwe’s health sector, once among the best in sub-Saharan Africa, collapsed during the nation’s 2008 economic crisis caused public hospitals to temporarily close down while skilled health workers left the country in droves to pursue better opportunities elsewhere.

Zimbabwe Gets $400,000 Boost for Neonatal Care

Zimbabwe HNN Team

The Zimbabwean government through UNICEF has received an amount of over $400 000 from a United Kingdom based organization towards the resuscitation and support of the maternal and new born survival in the country.

ZIMBABWE: A helping hand for HIV-positive mothers and babies

Zimbabwe

The high cost of maternity and health care, the lack of a proper follow-up system, and a limited ability to diagnose HIV infection early in babies means many Zimbabwean children are not being caught by the safety net that the PMTCT programme was intended to provide. 

Group: Baby deaths high in Zimbabwe gov’t housing

Zimbabwe

Learn how the displacement of an estimated 700,000 people in the brutal, allegedly politically driven demolition of slums and market stalls throughout Zimbabwe in 2005 is affecting maternal and newborn health.

ZIMBABWE: Low breastfeeding rates threaten PMTCT efforts

Zimbabwe HNN Team

One of the lowest exclusive breastfeeding rates in the region could have a negative impact on the country’s prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) programme.