Typhoid News
Typhoid: CDC to the rescue
- Centre for Diseases Control-Zimbabwe has dispatched a team to help the government fight typhoid
- Staff are tracing patterns of transmissions and helping to identify any antibiotic resistance
Council, EMA in joint clean-up campaign
- The Environmental Management Agency joined the Harare City Council in cleaning up illegal dumpsites in Harare
Transform Zimbabwe condemns absent leaders
- Christian-led opposition party Transform Zimbabwe has criticized the current government for the typhoid outbreak
Zimbabwe: Harare Typhoid Victim’s Sad Tale
- A 33-year-old single mother of four and street food vendor, living in Harare, tells the story of her typhoid diagnosis
Zimbabwe: Harare in deep water over typhoid outbreak
- Chronic failures in providing water and sanitation have turned Harare into a “breeding ground for disease”
- Vendor ban is likely only to make things worse
- This outbreak could affect who wins Harare in the national elections in 2018
Typhoid: Harare City Council and Zimbabwe Republic Police Confiscate Food Items and Pushcarts from Illegal Vendors
- After a ban on food vending was met with defiance, Harare and Zimbabwe police are confiscating food and carts from vendors
A call to take decisive measures to eradicate typhoid!
- The Civil Society Health Emergency Response Coordinating Committee expresses alarm at the outbreak of typhoid
- Water-borne diseases like typhoid are preventable; the outbreak therefore represents a clear failure of government
Health levy put on ice
- A levy on airtime purchases intended to fund medical purchases by the Health and Child Care Ministry has been delayed
- Of the $281 million allocated to the Health and Child Care Ministry, salaries take up $223 million and $41 million go to paying down debts, leaving only $9 million for operational costs, meaning that the ministry has no funds to combat outbreaks like typhoid
Typhoid claims another victim in Harare<
- A thirteen-year-old girl is the latest casualty of the typhoid outbreak in Zimbabwe
- She lived in Mbare, a high-density suburb on the outskirts
Ministers condemn Mbare Musika
- Health minister David Parirenyatwa was shocked by conditions in Harare’s high-density suburb, Mbare, which is the epicenter of the typhoid outbreak
No action plan to prevent typhoid fever – health officials
- No plans in place to prevent typhoid fever from reaching Botswana from neighboring Zimbabwe
- Officials meeting with CDC Botswana
Zimbabwe Doctors Call for Clean Water to Fight Typhoid Outbreak
- Doctors and aid organizations have called on the government to improve water and sanitation
Typhoid outbreak spreads to Harare prisons
- Sources in the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services confirmed that two penitentiaries are battling a serious typhoid outbreak
- Unconfirmed number of prisoners may be dead from typhoid
Zimbabwe: Typhoid Cases Fall
- Number of both confirmed and suspected typhoid cases are going down
- Ministry of Health working on unblocking drains and sewers and collecting refuse
Govt slams council’s 48-hr ultimatum on vendors
- The government has condemned Harare City Council’s food vendor ban, saying that service delivery, rather than food vendors, should be the priority
Harare in vendors threat no-show
- Despite the Harare’s City Council’s threats of a vendor ban and the 48-hour warning period, vendors continue to do business as normal
Zimbabwe: No End in Sight to Deadly Zimbabwe Typhoid
- Typhoid outbreak continues to rage in Zimbabwe, as conditions continue to facilitate the spread of typhoid and the health sector continues to struggle without doctors or medicines
Typhoid: Stop politicking over dead bodies
- Opinion piece argues that the Harare City Council should accept blame for their failures in allowing typhoid, instead of pointing fingers at poor street vendors
Aid Groups Help Zimbabwe Fight Typhoid Outbreak
- International aid groups have responded to Zimbabwe’s appeal for assistance
- Oxfam has been supplying water treatment chemicals to typhoid-affected areas and deploying health education volunteers
Vendors, council clash looms
- The vendor’s association in Zimbabwe is ready to approach the high court for an interdiction if the Harare city council continues to push the contentious ban on street food, which they claim will reduce the spread of typhoid
- Vendors have been protesting the loss of their livelihoods