Sustainable Health Financing in Zimbabwe’s Strategy

Original Article by Thandiwe Garusa | NewZimbabwe.com | 28 August 2025

Zimbabwe's Health Minister emphasizes the importance of sustainable health financing for African nations amidst donor funding withdrawals.

Zimbabwe’s Health Minister emphasizes the importance of sustainable health financing for African nations amidst donor funding withdrawals.

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Dr Thembisile Xulu is the new health Director-General, inheriting a strained department, healthcare-worker shortages and NHI litigation.

Gauteng is losing 100 nurses a month and needs R5.7bn to fill a 16,000-post gap. This shortage now flagged as a key risk to the NHI rollout.

Regulation, not demand, blocks affordable cover: medical schemes should be allowed to offer low-cost benefit options (LCBOs) now.