Health Promotion Association of Zimbabwe

01/08/2025

World Breastfeeding Week 2025
📅 1–7 August
Theme: "Enabling Breastfeeding – Making a Difference for Working Parents"

📊 Did you know?
✅ 67% of babies born in the past two years in Zimbabwe were breastfed within the first hour of life.
✅ Only 42% of children under six months are exclusively breastfed.
(Source: Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey 2023–2024)

This week, we join the global community in promoting, protecting, and supporting breastfeeding. While breastfeeding is a personal act between mother and child, its success depends on collective support from families, communities, workplaces, and policy makers.

This year’s theme calls on us to build strong systems at home, at work, and in society that support breastfeeding mothers — and reduce the environmental and financial burden of artificial feeding.

🤝 Breastfeeding is a shared responsibility.
✔️ Employers can support with flexible working hours and breastfeeding-friendly spaces.
✔️ Communities can challenge harmful myths and offer encouragement.
✔️ Policy makers must strengthen maternity protections and improve paternity leave to support both parents in nurturing their babies.

💡 Why Breastfeeding Matters:
🟢 Boosts baby survival rates
🟢 Provides perfect nutrition for infants
🟢 Protects against infectious diseases
🟢 Lowers lifelong risks of obesity, asthma, and heart disease

Let’s work together to create a breastfeeding-friendly Zimbabwe.

29/04/2025

07/04/2025

Happy World Health Day 2025!
Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures!

13/03/2025

🔴 Zim’s Health Promotion Officers to Develop Key Data Indicators for DHIS2 Integration

By Kuda Pembere in Kadoma

Health promotion officers have welcomed an initiative to develop their own key data indicators for integration into Zimbabwe’s District Health Information System 2 (DHIS2), a move aimed at making their contributions more visible and measurable.

The Health Promotion Unit (HPU) in the Ministry of Health and Child Care began developing these indicators on Wednesday, with support from Cordaid. This initiative seeks to address a long-standing issue where the impact of health promotion officers’ work is often attributed to other professions...
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Health promotion officers have welcomed an initiative to develop their own key data indicators for integration into Zimbabwe’s District Health Information

03/02/2025

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12/08/2024

Happy Heroes day to you all

Tengai ma Fire extinguisher 🧯 ekuisa mumota kana dzimba dzedu, zvima small small izvozvi can save lives and protect our property. Mota dzirikungobvira muma street umu dzichifamba, haisi nyore hama kuunganidza Mlmari yekutenga motokari yozongotsva kuita dota nekuti tanga tisina fire extinguisher ye$15 zvayo. Fire extinguisher haitengerwe mapurisa paroad kwete yakanakira iwewe nemudziyo wako. Wakaona mota yako yoita seyaita electrical fault yakuda kubvira or kubuda hutsi bvisa materminals epa battery nekukasika kana uchikwanisa 🙂‍↕🙂‍↕ uyezve ngatisaite ignore macheck lights anobuda pamota dzedu pamadashboard, ngationei vakomana vediagnostic vagugule nemachine yavo kuti chii chakonzera kuti musoro wemota uteme.

12/08/2024

Dear Honoured Patriots,

On this auspicious occasion of Heroes Day, the Health Promotion Association of Zimbabwe stands united in extending heartfelt gratitude to the courageous men and women who valiantly fought in the Chimurenga war of liberation from imperialists and colonizers. Your selfless sacrifices have paved the way for the prosperity and well-being of our beloved homeland.

Today, as the Health Promotion Association of Zimbabwe, we are privileged to witness and embrace the achievements brought forth by your unwavering dedication. Your heroism has played a pivotal role in delivering exceptional healthcare services to our people, ensuring their overall wellness and advancing the noble cause of health promotion across our nation.

It is with immense gratitude that we acknowledge the opportune circumstances we currently enjoy. The benefits of your past sacrifices manifest themselves through the establishment of a resilient healthcare system, staffed by skilled professionals who tirelessly work towards eradicating disease and improving the quality of life for all Zimbabweans. The indomitable spirit exhibited by our healthcare workforce echoes your resilience and enduring commitment towards a brighter future.

Today, we celebrate the gallant sons and daughters of the soil who bravely fought for our independence, preserving our cultural heritage and laying the foundations for a prosperous Zimbabwe. Your unwavering determination, courage, and sacrifice have paved the way for progress in the healthcare sector, ensuring that our citizens have access to quality healthcare services they rightly deserve.

As we commemorate Heroes Day, we also acknowledge the immense challenges that lie ahead. We understand that the responsibility to fulfill the dreams of our fallen heroes rests upon our collective shoulders. Thus, we pledge to continue their legacy by advocating for the improvement of healthcare infrastructure, training and empowering healthcare professionals, and promoting preventive measures for the well-being of every Zimbabwean.

We extend our utmost gratitude and respect to the heroes and heroines who stood tall against oppression and fought for our freedom. Today, as we mark this significant day, let us remember their valour, their sacrifice, and their profound impact on our lives. Let us strive to emulate their virtues and create a future where the ideals they stood for flourish.

We express our sincerest appreciation to all those brave individuals who fought for our liberation, making it possible for us to serve our people with dedication and diligence. We shall forever remember and honour your extraordinary contribution to our nation's history.

May this Heroes Day be a reminder of the debt we owe to our nation's heroes, and may it inspire us to continue building a prosperous Zimbabwe for generations to come.

With profound gratitude and highest regards,

The Health Promotion Association of Zimbabwe

09/08/2024

During these Heroes holidays lets not drink and drive.

Charity begins at home:

1. Sunga seat belt uchipinda mumota nyangwe yawamisa pamugwagwa uchikumbira lift. Haisi yako Mota chete yaunosungirwa kuisa seat belt . Zvinochengetedza hupenyu hwako
2. Kana wakanonoka enda nezuro, kumhanya sandi kusvika , Zimbabwe is a cattle country
3. Usatore zvinodhaka uchityaira kana kuti wakuda kutyaira mota.
4. Tsitsa hana yako katatu, kuti dzikama dzikama dzikama kana wakuona wadarika 120km/h mutemo wenzvimbo hautenderi kuti tidarike ipapo, uye mukana wekudzora mota yako kana yakaputika vhiri unenge wakaderera zvikuru.
5. Wakanzwa vhiri raputika uchityaira mota haikona kuvhunduka kutsika chepakati (ma brakes). Bata steering yako kuti dzviii uzame nepaunogona kunanganisa mota isabude mumugwagwa kana kubondera, kana dziri mota dzakuchinja magiya, ita change down yako zvakanaka, wakatsika mabrake zvebuka mazvokwadi unogona kukudubuka.
6. Ngatiremekedzanei pamugwagwa, haikona kuitira mumwe mutyairi hasha, kana kungorova rova bhero kunge wakadzidzira kutyaira pamuchato, tora mutyairi ari mberi kwako kana shure semunhu asina dzinonyatsodhonza nekuti zvauri kufunga kuti aite sandizvo zvaari kufunga iye kuita.

Happy holidays.

25/05/2024

Health Promotion Association of Zimbabwe is thrilled to commemorate Africa Day with you. Lets embrace the unity and strength of our beautiful continent. Happy Africa Day!