NAC Zambia nac.org.zm

National HIV/AIDS/STI/TB Council (NAC) Director General Dr Connie Osborne has led staff at the head office in Lusaka in testing for COVID-19. The tests were carried out on Wednesday the 13th of January 2021 by the Zambia National Public Health Institute (ZNPHI)’s Disease Surveillance and Rapid Response team. The decision …

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 …

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 …

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 …