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Public Hospitals Stock And Dispense Expired ( February 27, 2012 ) Anti-Retrovirals To Patients

Posted on July 25, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

Public hospitals are stocked with countless boxes of expired anti-retroviral drugs which are dispensed to patients, the Auditor General, Mildred Chiri has said. In a recent audit report for the year ended December 31, 2014, Chiri singed out Mutare General Hospital pharmacy. “The Mutare General Hospital pharmacy received 100 boxes of 60 units of a drug called Alluvia 100mg/25mg on February 27, 2012 whose expiry date was March 31, 2012.” “The drug was dispensed to…

‘Zimbabwe’s Public Order and Security Act (POSA) bars AIDS awareness campaigns ‘

Posted on June 23, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

NATIONAL AIDS Council (NAC) says community based organisations should be allowed to conduct HIV and AIDS awareness campaigns as this would help to reduce infections. Community based organisations always complain that the state uses the Public Order and Security Act (POSA) to bar them from holding public meetings. The call by NAC comes after they have witnessed an increase in STIs in Harare’s Epworth, Caledonia and Hopely high density suburbs. These are some of many shanty suburbs in…

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