The National HIV/AIDS/STI/TB Council ()NAC) has today the 23^rd of August  2018 kicked off media trainings on Key Populations with Lusaka based journalists pioneering the countrywide programme.

NAC Acting Director General Mr. Fortune Chibamba who opened the two-day training urged journalists to initiate dialogue around the subject of HIV by constantly including the subject on their respective editorial agenda in order to contribute to the national and global goal of ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.

According to the Zambia Population Based HIV Impact Assessment (ZAMPHIA) 2015-2016 report, 11.6 Zambians aged between 15-59 years are infected with HIV with around 46, 000 people becoming infected annually.

To avert new HIV infections and to improve care for those living with the virus, the Ministry of Health has placed greater emphasis on scaling-up HIV combination prevention services that enable individuals to maintain their HIV negative status as well as improve access to quality treatment and care services particularly through HIV Testing, Counselling and Treatment (HTCT)

Breeze FM Radio station in Chipata, broadcasts to nearly all of Eastern Province, extends its coverage to Serenje in Central Province and crosses the national frontiers into Malawi and Mozambique. The Radio station’s wide reach makes it one of the most attractive forms of mass media to reach any specific target audience within and slightly outside the province.

Nyimba and Vubwi are the only districts in Eastern Province where the radio station’s signal is weak.

THE Planned Parenthood Association of Zambia (PPAZ) Choma branch in Southern Province has earned itself a reputation of being one of the best providers of adolescent friendly health services through an irresistible participatory learning tool known as Join-In-Circuit (JIC).