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The government of Netherlands says it is deeply concerned with the rate of new HIV infections in Zambia.

Netherlands Ambassador to Zambia Harry Molenaar says the number of new HIV infections, exceeds the number of AIDS deaths.

Mr. Molenaar is of the view that in the absence of a cure for HIV, prevention should play a pivotal role in helping to get the AIDS epidemic under control.

He said there is need to increase HIV prevention efforts especially among girls and women.

Mr. Molenaar said this is because any response to treatment and care will not succeed unless the number of new infections is reduced significantly.

He was speaking at a three day HIV/AIDS workshop in Lusaka, Wednesday.

Mr. Molenaar explained that his government’s support will be targetted on HIV prevention.

The Netherlands government has in the last seven years been supporting various HIV/AIDS programmes in Zambia.

[ZNBC]

37 COMMENTS

  1. The problem is that there is to much promoscute in Zambia emanating even from senior citizens who are supposed to guide and help young ones. Besides, the encouragement of condoms is such another factor.

  2. yes but we have been through this before! some of these ambasadors are just good at giving figures and stating current conditions.. what about giving some solutions for a change? If Hiv infection is high well my friends should now learn that the issue of HIV in Zambia is also due to the attitudes of the young.. and by young i dont mean 20 and above..the same tuma grade 4,5,6.. lets aim to educate these young ones onHIV and AIDS from a tender age.. the UK has started giving sex education to very young kids..this raised issues here and i knownin Zambia it will be worse all cause of all those taboos etc whch do nothing bit kill us in the end. Lets see ruphiah banda or our incoming president HH, setup a weekly program to visit schools and talk about HIV and aids,

  3. NUMABLA 3 U SEE I HAVE OWAYS TOLD PEOPLE HERE THAT I TALK ALOT OF CRAP AND ALOT OF SENSE..THATS HOW LEARNED PEOPLE ARE.. WE DO BAD THINGS (DRINK ETC) BUT WHEN IT COMES TO THE WORK WE EXECUTE IT LIKE NO MANZ BIZNESS (THATS A ZAMBIAN FOR YOU) IJUST HOPE PEOPLE ON HERE WILL BE CLEVER ENOUGH TO TAKE MY SUBSTANCE SERIOSLY AND NOT THE CRAP I POST

  4. # 3 Gluco you are rite im also worried about his name or ID ati……NTWENU MPUTI AWE. naseka sana

  5. AIDS is the ideal
    weapon of mass destruction.The African people, who were the first to receive the virus, were used like experimental
    animals in a laboratory, as were homosexuals after that.

  6. all these projects they setup and fund in terms of NGOs etc.. they usually bring and employ top management from people of the origins of where the sameNGo originates. Most of these foriegn development workers lack much practical knowledge of how the african social scene operates..all they have is an idea from what they are taught in their univeristies that they should always keep an eye on the money box as africans are corrupt. There is need for such organisations and projects to be spear headed my the same zambian people who have a vast knowledge and experience of the effects of HIV and AIds. Its about time the western world started trusting african intellectuals.

  7. The cover for the introduction of AIDS into Africa with its large black population was the World Health Organization’s(WHO) massive “humanitarian” campaign to “eradicate smallpox for once and
    for all.” It was perfect. It even matched the surest way to pass the virus through injection.The WHO smallpox vaccines was contaminated with the AIDS virus. Shortly after the World Health Organization’s smallpox vaccination program was completed, serious
    outbreaks of AIDS occurred in Central Africa.

  8. # 10. 1984.Consequently, the corporate world and big western pharmaceutical companies are cashing in on ARVs. How heartless.

  9. va LT nayimwe… i have learnt a lesson.. please stop moderating my posts.. please eh!?

  10. WELAI NTWENU whats up?am surprised and you have even surprised yourself,today you are talking sense..LELO MUBUKILE KU RIGHT -ITS INCOURAGING

  11. How many people believe that the western goverments created aids? If you don’t ask yourself where was AIDS in the 70’s and before. How did it just pop up and nobody knows how. What a great way to kill off many people in third world countries and around the world. Also why are there no cures for anything makes you wonder?

  12. I agree, AIDS is just a conspiracy created by somebody so that money continues to generate to the medical world! Its actually just that our bodies are not longer immuned to different strains of viruses not becos they’re stronger but becos we’ve been eating too much food that had been injected with too much antibiotics, e.g. live stocks. The antibiotics are to keep the animals healthier. But unfortunately it too ended up in our bodies and unknowingly we’re taking antibiotics too! So our body rely too much on antibiotics and are weak against viruses, which might not be deadly. So as long as a new strain of virus attacks, we’re defenseless, we’re weak. But nobody is admitting livestock cultivation is the problem cos those are the big boys! They feed the governments too! The medical boys…

  13. The medical boys see this as a chance to make big bucks by saying these are “uncurable diseases”, or AIDS. Many sources of medical breakthrough for fighting against AIDS are quietly ignored, or are deemed improper for human use. Many new anti AIDS med discoveries were accused of having too much toxins and were instead trashed! So that’s how the medical big boys get infinite funding for their research for “fighting against AIDS”, and the governments had to play along to hide the truth. Which infact lots of human deaths could be reduced by stopping antibiotics injection to live stocks, this in turn let our bodies resist against diseases and viruses naturally and build up our own immune system. Then AIDS or other new strains of virus won’t get to us so easily! BUT the blame were put on…

  14. BUT the blame were put on monkeys transmission, and us having casual sex and sharing needles etc etc… nobody dare question what goes on in the live stock cultivation

  15. But seriously, you should do some research. HIV-1 and HIV-2 did not just “pop up” in the 1980s, they have been traced back to primates (HIV-1 to chimpanzees and gorillas; HIV-2 to sooty mangabeys) and just recently an edogenous lentivirus was found in rabbits which pushes the proof of the existence of lentiviruses back over 7 million years.

  16. The idea that Aids is a conspiracy is mind buffoonery, HIV affects all races it’s not a disease for africans only. Just because a disease shows up in the 80’s then that makes it created goodness look at all the worlds most lethal diseases and see how they popped up. Aids is a choice and can be avoided instead of taking responsibility people jump to blame unfounded conspiracies . Whats your excuse for Animals having HIV ? is it the white man trying to kill of animals too.

  17. A disease that an animal might have may not be that fatal in that animal,but if you get that disease in a human body it will pf course have different effects.Since animals and human beings do not have the same blood

  18. Animal HIV(FIV etc ) is far more fatal than human HIV , know your data before you spout opinions and parade them as facts. HIV is a choice it’s no conspiracy it kills all human white black or green

  19. The difference between a white and black man is melanin genius, a skin pigment . If you didn’t know HIV infection has nothing to do with the skin it has to do with T-cells which all races have. The highest rate of HIV on this planet is white homosexual males so do the math if HIV is really meant to kill africans.

  20. #24 Do you know the difference between black and white is just skin pigmentation(melanin). Maybe you need to go back to school and learn that HIV has nothing to do with sking pigmentation it has to do with T-cells which am not sure you know all human beings have

  21. #24 Do you know the difference between black and white is just skin p i gmentation( me lanin). Maybe you need to go back to school and learn that HIV has nothing to do with skin pi gmentation it has to do with T-cells which am not sure you know all human beings have

  22. There are enabling factors to the high rate of HIV infections in Zambia.
    e.g – Poverty breeds prostitution
    High alcohol consumption impairs s people’s judgment when it comes to safe sex
    Too many sexual abuse cases
    Most Zambian men (married/single) have multiple sex partners.

  23. Those who belive in God lets read in Mathew 10 v1 you will find the answer that God heals all manners of sickens

  24. What we are seeing today, the AIDS epidemic, had its roots in the Cold Spring Harbor Eugenics Records Office, with its goal of curbing and reducing the birth rate of Negroes, Jews, “defectives” and “the layers upon layers of lower races.” But, ultimately, Cold Spring Harbor scientists did more than show the way to
    a reduction in the birth rates of “undesirables.” They succeeded in showing the way to murder millions.

  25. #30 you know whats funny and stupid about your assumption? The highest rate of HIV infections is among white homosexual males. The HIV epidemic is not because of some lab experiment that you copied and pasted off another site because you can’t use your brain. The HIV pandemic is created in a lab called earth where the catalyst is immorality and promiscuity. There is no conspiracy that forces people to sleep around and spread the sickness .

  26. The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

  27. #36 woman of substance. 1984 doesn’t know zilch he just knows how to copy and paste and listen to a conspiracy madman(alex jones) . He then passes on the opinions he has heard and watched as fact without being diligent.

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