A spokesperson for the Zimbabwe Ministry of Health and Child Care said of the process to integrate community health workers into the government payroll: “Remember, it’s not only community health workers who were impacted; even nurses, lab technicians, and others were affected, so the government is still working on absorbing all of these.”
Date: 4/26
Region: Africa
Country: Zimbabwe
Topic: Health
Policy Lens: Global Health Security
Entry Type: Field Observation
Additional Context: This information was collected as part of The Aid Report's original feature story, "Aid cuts and a failed deal: Zimbabwe’s frontline health care under strain." Reporter Linda Mujuru looked into how deep U.S. foreign assistance cuts and the collapse of a $367 million health deal have disrupted the system sustaining Zimbabwe’s community health workforce.
In March 2025, Zimbabwe’s Minister of Health Douglas Mombeshora announced that the government would be integrating 15,000 community health workers into its payroll system. As of April 2026, the process of adding community health workers to the government payroll is ongoing and not yet complete, according to government representatives. This quote is attributed to Donald Mujiri, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Health and Child Care.
Source: Devex