International Women's Day 2021
Support Burnet’s work to help women and girls impacted by COVID-19.
Support Burnet’s work to help women and girls impacted by COVID-19.
Support Burnet’s work to help women and girls impacted by COVID-19.
Support Burnet’s work to help women and girls impacted by COVID-19.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Zimbabwe had one of the best primary health care systems in sub-Saharan Africa. But two decades of political and economic turmoil have led to low investment in the health sector, and many of Zimbabwe’s 16 million people now struggle to access basic health services.
Patient-doctor ratios are high, hospitals are ill-equipped and essential medicine is lacking.
Humanitarian crises, including two cholera outbreaks in 2018 and widespread drought in 2016 and 2017, have worsened the situation.
The major health problems currently affecting Zimbabwe according to the World Health Organization include:
COVID-19 reached Zimbabwe in March 2020. On June 7, the Ministry of Health reported 282 confirmed cases, 34 recoveries, and 4 deaths.
We will predominantly be working through implementing partners. Our approach will be to strengthen former partnerships, as well as to develop key new relationships with local partners who demonstrate clear synergies, shared values and a thematic focus that is clearly aligned with Burnet’s.
These will be public health projects and research focused on maternal and child health, infectious diseases, sexual and reproductive health, and young people’s health.
For more information about our work in Zimbabwe, please contact:
Head, Project Management Office