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Zimbabwe's COVID-19 RCCE response
UNICEF Zimbabwe’s RCCE activities in support to COVID-19 response positively impacting communities.
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A peer educator uses COVID-19 experience to drive adolescents demand for health services
Mberengwa, Zimbabwe - When Covid-19 struck in Zimbabwe in 2020, a teenage Eliza Mbiza was filled with dread. And it was not fear of the disease that shook her, but of vaccines introduced to fight the pandemic. “People were talking about how the vaccines had been sent to finish us off, it was scary,” said Mbiza rec...
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Village Health Workers engage community influencers to drive demand for health services
Umguza, Zimbabwe - In a tiny office at Mbembesi rural health facility in Matabeleland North’s Umguza district, Thembinkosi Sibanda, a midwife, took stock of the numbers in the facility’s birth register. A contented smile followed. Seven deliveries from the hospital’s maternity wing for the month. Only a single hom...
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Preventing Malnutrition in all forms
The nutrition situation in Zimbabwe is precarious. According to the 2022 Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment (ZimVAC), wasting (acute malnutrition) has increased since COVID-19. Approximately 15,000 children are now treated for severe wasting every year. Despite improvements in the last ten years, nearly one out of ...
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French Government supports routine immunization and COVID-19 vaccination in Zimbabwe
Harare, 14 March 2023, – Ahead of the World Health Day on 8 April, the Ambassador of France, HE Laurent Chevallier, and the French Regional Counselor for Global Health in Southern Africa, Dr Thomas Mourez, conducted a field visit in Harare, facilitated by the Ministry of Health and Child Care and UNICEF. The visit...
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Zimbabwe launches unique COVID-19 Video Documentary on COVID-19 response
In the auditorium of a Harare Hotel, people from various backgrounds waited patiently for the launch of the COVID-19 documentary Fighting the Wave - How a Nation United to Fight the COVID-19 Pandemic. COVID video launch People at the launch of the COVID-19 documentary called Fighting the Wave - How a Nation United...
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President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa launches unique Documentary highlighting how under his leadership Zimbabwe united against the COVID-19 pandemic
Harare, 2 March 2023 - His Excellency Cde Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, President Today, the Republic of Zimbabwe launched a unique documentary with many stakeholders at the Rainbow Towers Hotel in Harare. The one-hour documentary "Fighting the Wave: How a Nation United to Fight the COVID-19 Pandemic" will be broad...
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Monitoring COVID-19 Impact on Households in Zimbabwe: Results
The COVID-19 pandemic created an urgent need for timely information to help monitor and mitigate the socio-economic impact of the crisis. The information is essential to inform the policy formulation, implementation, and evaluation process. Responding to this information need, Zimbabwe Statistics Agency (ZIMSTAT),...
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From Learning Recovery to Education Transformation
Over the past three years, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought profound disruptions to children’s learning and overall wellbeing, exacerbating the pre-existing learning crisis. Urgent action is needed to recover learning and build education systems back better to achieve SDG 4. From Learning Recovery to Education Tr...
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The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022
Despite hopes that the world would emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic and food security would begin to improve, world hunger rose to as many as 828 million in 2021 following a sharp upturn in 2020 in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Severe food insecurity became more prevalent with 11.7 per cent of the global po...
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Murals a game changer in Zimbabwe’s battle against COVID-19
A security wall at Masvingo Christian College (MCC) located in one of the most populous suburbs in Zimbabwe’s oldest city has become a centre of attraction. Drivers, school children and residents in the Sisk area of Mucheke high density suburb regularly stop to marvel at a painting of two friends demonstrating som...
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Youth advocates make the difference in Zimbabwe’s COVID hotspots
Twenty-three-year-old Sandra Chikutura from Masvingo was born with HIV and she has sleepless nights thinking about her peers in a similar condition who do not have adequate family support structures to handle their status. Sandra considers herself lucky because she is one of the youths in the province, who was par...
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In Bikita, Community Health Clubs uses innovative ways avert another disaster
Bikita, Zimbabwe, -From the nightmare of a devastating cyclone, people in Zimbabwe’s Bikita district are using ingenious ways to take charge of their future and develop a prosperous and health conscious community better able to respond to current and future challenges, such as COVID-19. On a concrete slab at Vushe...