Zimbabwe Health News API

Get the live top health headlines from Zimbabwe with one request to the Top Headlines endpoint of GNews API. Headlines are based on Google News rankings and returned as JSON.

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Request and live response

This request returns the current top health headlines from Zimbabwe. The response below is live: it was fetched when this page loaded. Every parameter is described in the Top Headlines endpoint documentation.

GET https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=health&country=zw&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=health" \
  --data-urlencode "country=zw" \
  --data-urlencode "apikey=YOUR_API_KEY"

import requests

API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY"

response = requests.get(
    "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines",
    params={"category": "health", "country": "zw", "apikey": API_KEY},
    timeout=10,
)
response.raise_for_status()

for article in response.json()["articles"]:
    print(article["title"])

const API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY";

const params = new URLSearchParams({
    category: "health",
    country: "zw",
    apikey: API_KEY,
});

const response = await fetch(`https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?${params}`);
if (!response.ok) {
    throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
}

const { articles } = await response.json();
for (const article of articles) {
    console.log(article.title);
}

On the Free plan, browsers can only call the API from localhost: see Using the API in the FAQ.

<?php

$apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

$params = http_build_query([
    "category" => "health",
    "country"  => "zw",
    "apikey"   => $apiKey,
]);

$response = file_get_contents("https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?" . $params);
if ($response === false) {
    throw new RuntimeException("Request failed");
}

$data = json_decode($response, true);
foreach ($data["articles"] as $article) {
    echo $article["title"] . PHP_EOL;
}

using System.Net.Http.Json;

const string ApiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

using var client = new HttpClient();

var url = $"https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=health&country=zw&apikey={ApiKey}";
var data = await client.GetFromJsonAsync<ApiResponse>(url)
           ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("Empty response");

foreach (var article in data.Articles)
{
    Console.WriteLine(article.Title);
}

record ApiResponse(List<Article> Articles);
record Article(string Title);

200 OK · Live JSON response

{
    "totalArticles": 8330,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "9bef18b6ebf2538260c12a7fb19e07f7",
            "title": "cancer' blood tests coming to some GP surgeries",
            "description": "The aim is to detect hard-to-diagnose abdominal cancers, including liver, ovarian and pancreatic cancer, much sooner.",
            "content": "New blood tests designed to check for multiple cancers in one go will be offered to NHS patients in some 200 GP surgeries in England as part of a trial.\nThe aim is to detect hard-to-diagnose abdominal cancers, including liver, ovarian and pancreatic ... [1950 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm9qz93ew22no",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/e57b/live/5bce4a50-d78e-11f1-9440-953b82c8f55a.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-04T00:04:28Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f331a5ed3965fb59761dfcecfc7e7a34",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "056fcffad4d9b33c50f9ab67e09f6303",
            "title": "Blueberries reduced blood vessel inflammation in mice, but only with gut microbes present",
            "description": "A preclinical study found that gut microbes help convert blueberry phytochemicals into circulating metabolites, including hippuric acid, that are associated with reduced vascular inflammation. In mice fed a high-fat diet, blueberry supplementation reduced inflammatory markers and monocyte adhesion to blood vessels, but these benefits disappeared following antibiotic-mediated gut microbial depletion.",
            "content": "Blueberries contain compounds linked to cardiovascular health, but what happens when gut bacteria are removed from the equation? A new mouse study examines how dietary phytochemicals, microbial metabolism, and blood vessel inflammation relate.\nStudy:... [7880 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.news-medical.net/news/20261103/Blueberries-reduced-blood-vessel-inflammation-in-mice-but-only-with-gut-microbes-present.aspx",
            "image": "https://www.news-medical.net/images/news/ImageForNews_850523_17937502193076029.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T23:59:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f2ca7a45d20357cb42858868cb4a4946",
                "name": "News-Medical",
                "url": "https://www.news-medical.net"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "fa1e7ac247389e395f04b8690de12519",
            "title": "Smaller Brain Volume, Greater WMH Lead to Cognitive Decline After Intracerebral Hemorrhage",
            "description": "Katie Harris, PhD, discusses her MRI substudy of the TRIDENT trial, evaluating the role of T2 lesions, white matter hypersensitivity, and brain volume on dementia.",
            "content": "These data, a substudy of the Triple Therapy Prevention of Recurrent Intracerebral Disease EveNts Trial (TRIDENT), were presented at the World Stroke Congress (WSC) 2026 in Seoul, South Korea, by Katie Harris, PhD, a senior research fellow in the pro... [3806 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.hcplive.com/view/smaller-brain-volume-greater-wmh-lead-to-cognitive-decline-after-intracerebral-hemorrhage",
            "image": "https://cdn.sanity.io/images/0vv8moc6/hcplive/67edb4e39cda6a03b3651dc5da1e7415c40768ea-1200x628.png?w=1200&fit=max&q=75&fm=png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T22:05:36Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "fdb44255685fc0ff4da1d8b3d77003bf",
                "name": "HCPLive",
                "url": "https://www.hcplive.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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