who we are

About ZADHR

The Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) is a membership based health professionals organization whose vision is the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health in Zimbabwe.

To this end, ZADHR implements the following programs to achieve this:

  • Health and Human Rights Education Program
  • Health Policy and Health Systems Program
  • Health and Human Rights for Vulnerable Groups Program
  • Campaign Against Torture
  • Right to Health Accountability Program

What we do

Our Programs

In abid to realise the attainement of the Right to Health by all Zimbabweans, ZADHR implements  anumber of programs, including these 3:

CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE

CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE

This is in a response to the increase in organisation violence and torture on various civialians in Zimbabwe and the failure by other medical associations in Zimbabwe to come up with an appropriate response.

RIGHT TO HEALTH ACCOUNTABILITY

RIGHT TO HEALTH ACCOUNTABILITY

The chief goal of this program is to build accountability and transparency in the progression of the right to health in Zimbabwe.

HEALTH POLICY AND HEALTH SYSTEMS

HEALTH POLICY AND HEALTH SYSTEMS

The programme is aimed at engaging lawmakers i.e. parliamentarians and senators on issues to do with policy in the health sector through the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Health

In the News

Zim Govt Calls for Vaccination of Children As Polio Resurfaces

Zimbabwean health authorities have urged parents to vaccinate their children against polio. This comes after two healthy children tested positive for the virus in a routine environmental surveillance. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ministry of Health and Child Care said that the children who are below five years old, did not show any […]

Community health promoters in Zim drive cholera behaviour change campaign

To avoid complacency and cholera outbreak recurrence, Community Health Promoters encourage safe water, sanitation and hygiene practices Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe – Many people in Chitungwiza town’s St Mary’s suburb have received the cholera vaccine, in large part thanks to mobilisation efforts by community health promoters such as Ellen Nhambura. But, even as infections show signs of […]

Rare mutation forces Zim to start emergency polio vaccination drive

Zimbabwe began an emergency campaign to inoculate more than 4 million children against polio on Tuesday after health authorities detected three cases caused by the rare mutation of the weakened virus used in oral vaccines, including a 10-year-old girl who was paralysed in January. The health ministry said laboratory tests from samples collected from sewage sites in several […]

UNICEF Zimbabwe Polio Response Situation Report No. 1 for 02-16 February 2024

Highlights Situation Overview & Humanitarian Needs Zimbabwe last reported a case of indigenous wild polio virus (WPV) in 1986 and had been certified polio free in 2005. Following the detection of WPV1 in Mozambique and Malawi, in 2022, Zimbabwe also undertook the multi-country supplementary immunization activities (SIAs) with bOPV2 and managed to conduct four rounds […]

Fresh polio outbreak hits Zim

GOVERNMENT has confirmed the outbreak of a Type 2 poliovirus variant in the country saying an emergency polio vaccination programme has commenced. Addressing journalists in Harare yesterday, Health and Child Care deputy minister Sleiman Timios Kwidini said the detection of these viruses in the environment or in humans constitutes a polio outbreak. “The Health and […]

Zim declares polio outbreak, rolling out vaccination programme

The Zimbabwean government on Friday declared a polio outbreak in the country and announced a rollout of vaccinations starting Feb. 20. Health and Child Care deputy minister Dr Sleiman Kwidini made the announcement at a media briefing and urged the public not to panic as the government has taken swift action to contain the outbreak. […]