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Between 2009 and 2018, cancer cases in Zimbabwe almost doubled, according to the national cancer registry. This has been due to drivers such as behavioural risk factors for cancer and poor access to screening, treatment and palliative care. According to the latest available statistics from the World...

The annual reported number of malaria cases in 2020 was 447,381. ...

The annual reported number of malaria deaths in 2020 was 400. ...

In 2020, Zimbabwe recorded an adolescent fertility rate of 77 births per 1,000 girls ages 15 to 19. ...

Herd immunity is the indirect protection from an infectious disease when a population is immune either through vaccination or immunity developed through previous infection. The share of people who need to be immune in order to achieve herd immunity varies with each disease. The proportion of the pop...

According to the latest Zimbabwe Population-based HIV Impact Assessment (ZIMPHIA 2020), the rate of annual new HIV infections among adults in Zimbabwe is 0.38% (0.54% among women and 0.20% among men) or about 31,000 persons over a year. The prevalence of HIV among adults was 12.9%, which co...

Due to highly restrictive abortion laws, more than 70,000 women each year undergo unsafe abortions. One estimate is that Zimbabwean women run a 200 times greater risk of dying due to unsafe abortion complications than their counterparts in South Africa, where the procedure is legal. ...

The World Bank’s Human Capital Index measures “the amount of human capital that a child born today can expect to attain by age 18”. It expresses this as a value between zero and one. An economy in which the average worker achieves both full health and full education potential will score a v...

As of February 2020, there were 1,414 doctors and 15,353 nurses working in the country’s public hospitals.More: FACTSHEET: Doctors and nurses in Zimbabwe’s public hospitals...