By Alfred Tembo – Zimbabwe’s leading telecommunication services director has challenged Telone employees to cautiously guard their health in a bid to prioritise the company’s growth and development. The managing director’s statement comes at a time when Zimbabwe is struggling to mitigate the scornful pandemic that has rampantly reduced the skilled manpower in Zimbabwean industries. In the chain of spreading of the pandemic, women and children are the most affected as they are the most vulnerable and are largely dependents. Speaking at the official launch of Telone Sports Gala which was held on Saturday at Chaplin High school in Gweru... Continue Reading
Sasolburg, Free State — The Bongi Ngema-Zuma Foundation has joined hands with the Free State provincial government to create awareness about diabetes, and curb its spread in a country with an estimated 6.5 million living with the pandemic. Diabetes has been declared a global “major health problem” with 366 million people living with the disease according to the International Diabetes Federation. The citizens of Zamdela township, Sasolburg, in the Fezile Dabi municipality were joined at Moses Kotane stadium by fellow Free State province citizens to belatedly commemorate the World Diabetes Day, which is marked on November 14 of every year. At... Continue Reading
By Zack Ohemeng Tawiah – Ghana faces difficult times ahead in her effort to reduce HIV infection rate by 50 per cent within the next four years. This follows withdrawal of financial support by the Global Fund, which has been a major financier until now. The Fund took the decision at its board meeting attended by stakeholders in Accra. Global Fund to Fight AIDS has since 2005 been contributing about 70 per cent of Ghana’s anti-HIV programmes. Donor countries met in New York last year and pledged to support HIV AIDS, Tuberclosis and Malaria control programmes with 11.7billion US Dollars between 2011... Continue Reading
NOVEMBER 23, 2011 – Because donor funding for global HIV/AIDS and the Global Fund has been declining, the Fund is in the most dire financial situation it has ever seen since its creation ten years ago. As a result, the Global Fund board yesterday decided to effectively cancel its 11th funding round due to lack of resources – an unprecedented act in its history. The Global Fund will provide for a ‘transitional funding mechanism,’ whereby countries known to be facing a disruption of programs for HIV, TB and malaria before 2013 will be offered a chance to apply for funding to cover their... Continue Reading
London, 21 November 2011 – The growing number of averted HIV/AIDS deaths according to data released by UNAIDS represents important progress, but the number of people put on treatment must increase dramatically in order to reap the benefits of the new science showing that HIV treatment both saves lives and helps prevent new infections, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières MSF (Doctors Without Borders) said today. This will require significant additional funding for HIV treatment, yet, as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria’s Board meeting opens today in Accra, Ghana, AIDS funding has now declined for two years in a row. In... Continue Reading
