Tag: Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe Government Trains N’angas To Help With TB and HIV

At least 16 people have died of tuberculosis (TB) in Makoni District, Zimbabwe since January this year as government moves to co-opt both traditional and faith healers in concerted strategies to tame the high burden of tuberculosis and HIV in the country. This was revealed by Makoni District TB Coordinator Bernard Murambiwa Mahwe during a […]

 

African myths about homosexuality

A political spat about gay rights in Zimbabwe is symptomatic of the homophobia prevalent in many African communities by Blessing-Miles Tendi Zimbabwe’s Sunday Mail newspaper, which is controlled by Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF party, ran an article last week headlined “Gay rights furore”. It claimed that “Zimbabwe’s major political parties are on a […]