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The National Aids Council says the HIV and Aids prevalence rate for the city of Bulawayo has reduced from 18% to 15% between the period 2006 to 2011. NAC organiser for Bulawayo province Sinatra Nyathi said this came out in their annual review for the ... Read More »

BBC-Women may be able to better gauge their own fertility based on the age their mother went through menopause, a study has concluded. Women whose mothers had an early menopause had far fewer eggs in their ovaries than those whose mothers had a later menopause, ... Read More »

The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has agreed to provide drugs to the Zimbabwe Aids Prevention Project-University of Zimbabwe (ZAPP-UZ), an organisation working with commercial sex workers through its health department as the local authority moves in to assist in reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS. According ... Read More »

BBC-Chemotherapy can undermine itself by causing a rogue response in healthy cells, which could explain why people become resistant, a study suggests. The treatment loses effectiveness for a significant number of patients with secondary cancers. Writing in Nature Medicine, US experts said chemo causes wound-healing ... Read More »

Scientists believe they have discovered a clue to why women tend to live longer than men – by studying fruit flies. Writing in Current Biology, they focus on mutations in mitochondrial DNA – the power source of cells. Mitochondria are inherited only from mothers, never ... Read More »