Country Plans: Zimbabwe

Goals 

  • Ensure Disbursements  of the money allocated to health
  • Minimize/ stop diversions of medicines in the Black market
  • Have a mechanism of communicating with Rural District Health Centres
  • Supply chain
  • Improve collection of evidence

 

Raise awareness 

  • Baseline survey-  HAI to assist in five districts
    • Over time
    • Once off
  • Pill check week
    • Photocopy slips with o/s
    • Human stories
  • Community meetings
  • Advocacy at National level
    •  
      • Disbursements

Raise awareness 

  • Media 
    • SW radio, Cape Town
    • Voice of America
    • Standard Paper
    • Etc
  • IEC materials
    • Posters
    • Pamphlets

Raise awareness 
 

  • TAXI tunes with  issues, contact numbers
  • Road shows
  • World Health Day 2010

Main Issues 

  • Corruption 
  • Lack of awareness of the community
  • HCC not actively involved

 

  • Actions 
  • Continuous monitoring mechanism by communities
  • Revive HCC committees to monitor the medicine flow- need a lot of resources
  • Mechanism of HCC to provide feed back to communities and government
  • SMS for sending information
  • Working with PPCH,  MOHCW
  • Policies, EDLIZ list
  • Resource issue
  • Clinics run by government
  • Government to disburse the money to health
  • Lack of transport- donors
  • Bad infrastructure- roads

Key people  

  • MOHCW Minister
  • Minister of Finance
  • Parliament Portifolio Committee on Health
  • Prime Minister
  • Minister of State in Prime Minister office
  • WHO- Director
  • UNICEF
  • MSF
  • RBZ??????

Key people  

  • Donor Health Cluster
  • Use of media
  • SABC – political issues but regional strategy to help
  • Voice of America
  • Oxfam

Contacts  

  • Zimbabweans in  diaspora
  • Voice of America
  • Citizen Journalism in Africa- Tapiwa, GAPWUZ
  • MISA
  • SW Radio

Websites 

  • New Zimbabwe
  • Kubatana
  • SAFAIDS
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