Nigeria on March 2, got delivered its first batch of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines, becoming the third country in Africa to get the shots through the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access Facility (COVAX), a global scheme formed to ensure fair access to vaccination for low- and middle-income states.
An aircraft belonging to Emirate Airlines made the delivery of about 3.94 million doses of the vaccine, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, in Abuja, part of the jabs that COVAX plans to deliver to the country over the coming months.
On March 5, the government commenced the vaccination of frontline healthcare workers in Abuja, followed by strategic leaders on March 8, whom they described as priority recipients.
Tendai Ruben Mbofana
To say I was shocked by the lame, disingenuous, and shamefully ridiculous attempts by the Zimbabwe government to sanitize the septic, cruel, and repulsive displacement of over 12,000 Chilonga villagers from their ancestral land, to make way for a Lucerne grass growing venture by the Dendairy company, by labeling it as ‘investment’, would be the understatement of my lifetime – but, rather, I was bewildered, enraged, and filled with a sense of revulsion for a regime that touts itself as liberators from colonialism, yet have swiftly morphed, in typical ‘Animal Farm’ fashion, into the very colonialists they claim to have vanquished.
Home | News & Events | U.S. Government Assistance to Zimbabwe in 2020
The U.S. Government provided over $341 million in U.S. assistance to Zimbabweans in calendar year 2020. The funds included over $200 million for health, with $163 million for PEPFAR’s HIV/AIDS programs alone, $80 million in emergency assistance, $26 million for resilience programs, and $12 million to promote agriculture economic growth. We have provided over $3.5 billion in assistance to Zimbabwe since 1980.
Health
The U.S. Government remains the largest overall bilateral donor to Zimbabwe and provides the most support to the country’s health sector. Assistance concentrates on the prevention and treatment of three of the most significant health threats in Zimbabwe HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria to help Zimbabweans live longer and healthier lives. The U.S. Government also focuses on programs that reduce maternal, infant, and child illness and deaths. In 2020, the U.S. Government invested
By Jeffrey Moyo
Even as the world is bracing for vaccination drives to combat COVID-19, many people in the Southern African country of Zimbabwe have latched their hopes on zumbani a woody shrub to keep the pandemic at bay.
Nyson Mhaka, 52, and his wife Gertrude, 47, were infected with COVID-19 in December. They claim to have recovered after taking the “wonder herb.”
And since then, the couple has turned a campaigner, giving lectures on the lifesaving properties of the fever tea tree leaves.
While there are no clinical studies to suggest that having zumbani can cure a COVID-19 patient, experts believe that its respiratory healing properties may have provided limited help in certain cases.