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 …
Read More »NAC Pledges support for Girls’ Rise Up Project
A five-member team of health related professionals from Charles R Drew University (CDU) in Los Angeles, California in the United States of America today 12th September 2022, visited the National AIDS Council to explore ways of scaling up and sustaining the Girls Rise Up Project run under the support of the …
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