There are 2 laboratory confirmed cases of cholera reported in Zimbabwe. One was reported from Shashe clinic in Beitbridge District, Matebeland South Province on the 5th of March 2013. The patient had visited South Africa, Mussina 4 days before falling ill. Three other suspected cholera case tested negative and we are still awaiting results from other 2 sample collected on 16th. There has been 2 confirmed cases of cholera in Mussina, one of which is a Zimbabwean national with a refugee status who had visited Zimbabwe prior to falling ill.

Zimbabwe’s climate change strategies tend to have a strong rural bias, overlooking the needs in urban areas.

“Zimbabwean Health system is still not recovered and continues to operate in a fragile environment as shown by current urban centered diarrhoea outbreaks” (WHO - Key processes in Transition & Post-emergency Recovery of the Health System)

Highlights: Week 26:25 June -1 July 2012)

• Anthrax in Buhera

• 5288 malaria cases reported

A. General context

B. Epidemic prone diseases

C. Events of public health importance in the region

D. Completeness and timeliness of the national data

E.Acknowledgments

F.Annexes

Highlights: Week 22: (28 May – 3 June 2012)

• No cholera cases reported
  
• 3 typhoid cases reported
  
• 6181 malaria cases and 9 deaths reported

Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation from Taiwan has effected a shipment of materials for the construction of ten temporary classrooms to improve learning condition. As in Epworth School, Zimbabwe, teachers and students were studying in tents, or under the shade of trees. Without desks and chairs, children sit on the ground to learn and lie on the big stone to write.

Often in times of political unrest, the most severe casualty is the shortage of basic human needs. Currently the most severe of these basic shortages is the fresh supply of drinking water in the capital Harare.

Highlights: Week 50 (12 - 18 Dec 2011)

-14 Typhoid case reported this week

-Anthrax outbreak in Gokwe North

Contents
A.General context
B.Epidemic prone diseases
C.Events of public health importance in the region
D.Completeness and timeliness of the national data
E.Acknowledgments
F.Annexes
1.Classification of events that may constitute a Public Event of International Concern
2.Standard case definitions
3.Alert/action epidemic thresholds

Highlights: Week 51 (19 - 25 Dec 2011)

• 76 Typhoid case reported this week

• Anthrax outbreak in Gokwe North and Centenary

Contents

A.General context
B.Epidemic prone diseases
C.Events of public health importance in the region
D.Completeness and timeliness of the national data
E.Acknowledgments
F. Annexes
1. Classification of events that may constitute a Public Event of International Concern
2. Standard case definitions
3. Alert/action epidemic thresholds