Portia Manangazira¹* and Itai Rusike²

¹Community Working Group on Health (CWGH), Zimbabwe
²Executive Director, (CWGH), Zimbabwe

*Corresponding Author: Portia Manangazira, Community Working Group on Health (CWGH), Zimbabwe

Received: July 03, 2025; Published: July 21, 2025

Abstract

The state of health is linked to the national socio-economic conditions and development paradigms. Zimbabwe has undergone a protracted and complex social, economic and political strife that has over the past two decades, negatively impacted on key national systems and institutions including health, education, social welfare and economic development. This situation severely challenged the health system, putting vulnerable populations, especially women and children at high risk of ill health and premature demise from unattended disease and health conditions. The health sector was already facing deep structural and operational challenges, even before COVID-19, and the pandemic worsened and further exposed the system wide demise.

Keywords: COVID-19; Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR)

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Citation

Citation: Portia Manangazira and Itai Rusike. “Revitalizing Primary Health Care for Maternal and Child Healthcare En-route to Attaining Universal Health Coverage, and the SDGs in Zimbabwe by 2030". Acta Scientific Women's Health 7.8 (2025): 55-61.

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Copyright: © 2025 Portia Manangazira and Itai Rusike. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.