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Linda Muriro discusses the state of Zimbabwe's music industry and what needs to be done to improve the livelihoods of musicians, joined by National Arts Council of Zimbabwe Communications and Marketing Manager Rodney Ruwende, arts promoter Josh Hozheri & Walter Wanyanya, producer Mono Mukundu, musicians Diana Samkange, Sulumani Chimbetu and Stunner.

When pregnancy isn’t in your plans at the moment, finding a reliable birth control option is important.

Are young adults fully aware of the services they can get from Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council? This episode explores services available for adolescents' sexual reproductive health. 

ZNFPC is mandated to coordinate, take leadership and support implementation of integrated Family Planning (FP) and related Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) services in Zimbabwe. These include; provision of technical assistance to the FP programme, quality control for all public and private sector FP services, training of all health service providers in FP, demand creation materials (IEC) for FP and related SRH issues, conducting FP and related SRH researches, and procurement and distribution of contraceptives for the country.

Some of the challenges faced by adolescents across the world include early pregnancy and parenthood, difficulties accessing contraception and safe abortion, and high rates of HIV and sexually transmitted infections. Mr. Gwafa explains how ZNFPC is battling these challenges. 

In case you missed the interview of musician Bryan Kadengu, better known in the music circles as Bryan K. 

Yvonne Tivatye hosts ZNFPC Matebeleland Marketing and Communications Manager Mr. Gwafa.  ZNFPC is fully represented nationwide, visit the nearest branch. 

Our strategy seek to address the following: – Increase Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (CPR) Scale up the integration of Family Planning and HIV and AIDS services Improve coordination and provision of Family Planning services Increase coverage of underserved areas Reduce morbidity and mortality rate Recapitalisation of the organisation Resource mobilization and staff retention

Yvonne shares a personal, real, touching, inspiring, and fun playlist on My Top 5.