Zambia will be commemorating the National HIV Testing Counselling and Testing (HTCT) day on 15 August, 2022 under the theme “Let’s Stop HIV Together! #GetTestedToday. The Ministry of Health through the National HIV/AIDS/STI/TB Council and partners is spearheading preparations for this important national event whose theme means working together to ensure that no one …
Read More »Youth-focused HIV Prevention Programming Activation
Concerned with trends of increased HIV infections among adolescents, the Ministry of Health is mobilising partners in a bid to build concerted effort to lower the new HIV cases in this age group. To that effect, MoH, through the National HIV/AIDS/STI/TB Council with support from USAID and PEPFAR-funded MOSAIC Project …
Read More »Go for PrEP, Minister Masebo tells breastfeeding women
Health Minister Sylvia Masebo has encouraged HIV negative women to take another HIV test after giving birth because some of them become infected with the virus while breastfeeding thereby posing a risk of passing the virus to their children. In her keynote speech during the National HIV Testing Counselling and …
Read More »Vice President W.K Mutale Nalumango calls on NAC to intensify sensitisation programmes to curb new HIV infections
Vice President Ms Mutale Nalumango says Zambia risks a resurgence of the HIV epidemic based on what she describes as potential complacence on prevention measures because the virus no longer presents physical negative signs on those living with it. The Vice President said the advent of Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) good …
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