Responding to Emerging Public Health Crisis in Africa

by Higherlife in Blog, Health. Posted March 31, 2023

How we prepare for and respond to a health emergency often predicts how severe and prolonged the health crisis may last. Quick and coordinated responses, with clear roles for each actor, limits the duration and impact of the crisis. Conversely, when our response is slow, and we are unsure of roles including who makes decisions, ...

Seek, reach, receive – what we need to reduce maternal mortality

by Higherlife in Health, Our Work. Posted March 3, 2023

Dr Kennedy Mubaiwa Higherlife Foundation Chief Executive Officer makes a case for more training programs for healthcare workers. He posits that skills improvement may help reduce maternal mortality rates in Africa. Recently, the World Health Organisation released a report on the trends in maternal mortality from 2000-2020. The numbers were a cold reminder of how ...

Multi-stakeholder approach key in NTD elimination

by Higherlife in Health, Our Work. Posted January 30, 2023

Tadiwa, an 11-year-old Grade six student in rural Zimbabwe has missed school for more than a week. She has a distended stomach, nausea, pain, and dizziness. Tadiwa is well known for playing in a nearby stream, the only water source for her village. Today Tadiwa visited the clinic, where she was diagnosed with intestinal worms ...

Renewing hope in maternal wards across Zimbabwe

by Higherlife in Health, Our Work. Posted May 12, 2022

At Higherlife Foundation, our work under maternal health is contributing to ensuring the safety of mothers and their children, resulting in a reduction in maternal and infant mortality rates across Zimbabwe. Through the placement of equipment and training of midwives and nurses in hospitals through the support of Elma Group of Foundations and Delta Philanthropies, we ...

Higherlife Foundation celebrates Midwives across the globe

by Higherlife in Health. Posted May 10, 2022

Annually the 5th of May marks an International Day of Celebration and honour for midwives. We at Higherlife Foundation join the rest of the world in celebrating the phenomenal work done by the men and women who have devoted their time to the care of mothers and their newborns. Midwives are the frontline caregivers and ...

Higherlife Foundation commemorates World Toilet Day

by Higherlife in Health. Posted November 19, 2021

“Who cares about toilets? 3.6 billion people do. Because they don’t have one that works properly!” With more than 600million people practicing open defecation due to the lack of access to toilets this world toilet day could not be more important. Today Higherlife Foundation joins the rest of the world in raising awareness on the issue of sustainable sanitation ...

Higherlife Foundation engages Health Parliamentary Portfolio Committee in implementation of cholera elimination strategy

by Higherlife in Health. Posted November 18, 2021

Following Zimbabwe’s most recent cholera outbreak in 2018, at the instruction of President Mnangagwa, the Cholera Elimination Secretariat (CES) was established by Higherlife Foundation to provide catalytic support to the National Taskforce on Cholera Elimination. Recently the CES engaged the Health Parliamentary Portfolio Committee led by Hon Ruth Labode, as part of its efforts to ...

Higherlife Foundation joins the world in commemorating World Prematurity Day

by Higherlife in Health. Posted November 17, 2021

Every year an estimated 15million babies worldwide are born preterm and this number is rising. Bringing it home, preterm birth complications are one of the leading causes of neonatal (newborns) deaths in Zimbabwe with the country having a Neonatal Mortality Rate of 32 deaths per 1000 live births. Born before their time, premature babies require intensive medical care and special equipment that ...

Strengthening Maternal and Neonatal health care in Zimbabwe

by Higherlife in Health. Posted May 4, 2021

On Monday, 26 July 2020, eight Caesarean Section operations were performed at Zimbabwe’s Harare Central Hospital. Of these eight deliveries, seven babies were stillborn, and only one survived. For two weeks in December 2019, a 72-year-old self-taught midwife delivered over 250 infants in her small apartment, with no running water, in the poor suburb of Mbare in ...

Higherlife Foundation donates maternal health medical equipment to seven hospitals in Zimbabwe.

by Higherlife in Health. Posted December 17, 2020

Through a generous investment from ELMA Philanthropies, Higherlife Foundation this December commenced the handover of maternal health medical equipment to seven hospitals in Zimbabwe. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the provision of essential maternal and neonatal health services and severely eroded the steady gains that Zimbabwe had made in improving mortality rates. Over the next ...