Madison Life Insurance (MLife) Limited and Madison Health Solutions have jointly donated a consignment of socially marketed condoms valued at approximately K90, 000.00 to the National HIV/AIDS/STI/TB Council (NAC) for distribution to areas with rising numbers of new HIV infections.

The National HIV/AIDS/STI/TB Council (NAC) with support from UNICEF will soon cover the whole country with broadcast programmes in its continued bid to increase its reach to adolescents as one of the key target audiences for HIV, AIDS, sexuality and reproductive health and rights information.

Republican President His Excellency Mr Edgar Chagwa Lungu has launched the National HIV Testing, Counselling and Treatment (HTCT) Day making it possible for persons infected with HIV to be put on treatment immediately they know their HIV positive status. The HTCT Day launched on August 15 substitutes the National Voluntary HIV Counselling and Testing (VCT) Day which used to be commemorated on June 30.

The National HIV/AIDS/STI/TB Council (NAC) has today 20^th April, 2017, hosted a workshop of radio producers of Test Your Health programmes which promote adolescent HIV Testing Services (HTS) under the financial support of UNICEF.

NAC Director General Dr Reuben Kamoto Mbewe reminded participants drawn from five provinces where these programmes are already running and representatives of radio stations which are yet to be contracted, that they had an onerous task of reducing the burden of HIV in their respective catchment areas.