Derick Matsengarwodzi
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3 weeks ago |
gavi.org | Derick Matsengarwodzi
Five-year-old Melisa’s birthday will probably always remind her father, Cosmas Dambaza*, of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dambaza, a 47-year-old fruit and vegetable vendor at Guzha market in Chitungwiza, a commuter town on the outskirts of Harare, recalls his life in the months and years before Melisa’s birth: waking at 04:00, getting ready, checking in on his wife before striding hurriedly away into the dark.
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Dec 9, 2024 |
allafrica.com | Derick Matsengarwodzi
Tinotenda*'s childhood in Shamva, a mining town in north-eastern Zimbabwe, was normal - that is, full of promise and wild dreams. That wide open future began to contract when she started to experience discomfort in one of her legs. "At first, I only felt some pain - the leg was not swollen yet. At the local clinic, I was told I was suffering from elephantiasis, and it needed to be drained," the mother-of-one recounted.
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Oct 22, 2024 |
tinzwei.co.zw | Derick Matsengarwodzi
Back in 1978, two years before independence, the Rhodesian government resolved to establish Chitungwiza, a dormitory town, 25 km south of Harare. After the merger of three African townships of Seke, Zengeza and St Mary’s, it became the youngest, but fastest growing town in the country. That same year, on a very hot 22 October afternoon, I was delivered in St Mary’s clinic.
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Aug 25, 2024 |
gavi.org | Derick Matsengarwodzi
As a child in Gokwe, a rural town in Zimbabwe’s Midlands, Mary Nyanga, now 43, was anxiously aware of a mysterious but common eye disease that many people in her community talked about as a “spell”. Patients, she recalls, were often confined to their homes, alone, so as not to infect others. Children in her own family had developed the tell-tale itchy eyes, but recovered. In the worst cases, however, people were blinded permanently.
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Jun 19, 2024 |
thinkglobalhealth.org | Derick Matsengarwodzi
The Termination of Pregnancy Act (TOP Act), passed in 1977, has been increasingly attacked by human rights activists, victims, and legislators because it minimizes access to reproductive health for vulnerable women and girls in Zimbabwe. Activists are calling for a review of the act and amendments to include rape within a marriage, access to safe abortion, and reproductive health.
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