Health & Fitness

A top official with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has attributed the decrease in the number of refugees coming into the country on COVID-19 restrictions. UNHCR protection cluster coordinator Mwongeli Makau made the marks yesterday during a virtual meeting organised by Arrupe Jesuit University. “UNHCR protects refugees …

A 57-year-old Maryland man who had received a genetically modified pig heart in a first-of-its-kind transplant surgery has died, the University of Maryland Medical Center said Wednesday.David Bennett died on Tuesday after his condition began to deteriorate several days ago, the medical center said. He was given palliative care and …

Staff WriterA Chinese business firm on Sunday donated 700 chicks and chicken feed to a non-profit youth affiliated organisation based in Chitungwiza for the development of poultry projects. Loving Mums of Zimbabwe from the Chinese Business Association in Zimbabwe handed over the consignment to Teen Rescue Mission Trust (TRMT), an …

Opposition led municipalities have failed to prioritise the importance of having a clean environment for the benefit of the people of Zimbabwe, ZANU PF Second Secretary  Kembo Mohadi has said. Mohadi said this while addressing stakeholders at Number One Old grounds after a clean-up campaign of Hwange Colliery Company Concession …

By Jairos Tichaona Mataruse In an effort to curb poaching in the peripheries of Hwange National Park, the Painted Dog Conversation (PDC) has encouraged local communities to participate in sporting and anti-poaching activities. Community members in Mabale, Lupote, Cross Dete, Dingani and Main Camp (Parks Wildlife Management) are prone to …

THE Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council (ZNFPC) is moving around Bulawayo suburbs distributing condoms, mostly to youths as part of its Sexual Health and Reproduction campaign. The week-long campaign was launched on Monday, a day after the commemoration of the International Condom Day.  The International Condom Day was launched in …

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – Former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow continues to prove that his life’s work is off the gridiron, calling attention to the medical needs of children in hard-hit areas around the globe. Tebow’s foundation, along with the nonprofit CURE international, recently broke ground on a new ward on CURE’s Children Hospital …

Villagers of Hwange’s  Kalala and Chenambi have called for urgency regarding the need to protect wetlands in their communities as a mitigatory measure to curb the effects of climate change. Speaking during the belated World Wetlands Day spearheaded by Green Shango Trust in partnership with Environmental Management Agency (EMA) at Kalala …

PARIS: French researcher Luc Montagnier, who won a Nobel Prize in 2008 for discovering the HIV virus and more recently spread false claims about the coronavirus, has died at age 89, local government officials in France said. Montagnier died Tuesday at the American Hospital of Paris in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a western …

Rising awareness in Zimbabwe about COVID-19 complications has prompted smokers of tobacco and other substances to quit, health experts in the Southern African nation confirm. “With the advent of COVID-19 and the health awareness that was broadcast, it became clearer that there are certain people who are at more risk …