Latest PHM-Zimbabwe posts

Doctors Call Zimbabwe’s Ruined Health System a “Man-Made Disaster”

In a new report released today, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) finds that a causal chain runs from Mugabe’s economic policies to Zimbabwe’s economic collapse, food insecurity and malnutrition and the current outbreaks of infectious disease. The report is based on a health assessment by PHR public health and human rights experts who travelled to Zimbabwe in December 2008.

Zimbabwe: Launching the Global Health Watch 2

22 October 2008, Harare, Zimbabwe

Health in Zimbabwe: PHM Zimbabwe Position Paper June 2008
PHM Position Paper on Health in Zimbabwe, posted 14 June 2008. Includes more detailed analysis of the socio-economic background; the main current issues; the role of the state and recommendations from the Community Working Group on Health.

1. Socio-economic background

At Independence in 1980, Zimbabwe inherited some of the worst rural-urban disparities in the provision of social services. In the 1980s, the new national government made commendable progress in redressing these disparities. In healthcare delivery, these efforts

People's Health Movement - Zimbabwe
Introduction about PHM-Zimbabwe.