The National AIDS Council (NAC) has expressed worry that the downward trend in the number of new HIV infections which Zambia was recording in the past few years was now changing to the opposite.
Programmes Director Harold Witola has said there was still a lot of work to be carried out to fight HIV/AIDS despite Zambia making significant strides in reducing new HIV infections in the past few years.
Dr. Witola however noted that there has been a rise in new HIV infections particularly in urban areas as compared to rural areas.
He attributed the rising number of new HIV infections in urban areas to the emerging economic and social activities.
Dr. Witola said this at the on-going National Aids Council (NAC) and United National Development Programme (UNDP) joint media symposium in Chisamba district in Central Province.
The NAC and UNDP media symposium is being held under the theme “Unlocking the potential of the media to play a positive role in responding to HIV and AIDS”.
Dr. Witola said there was need for all key stakeholders to work together and educate people particularly in the high risky areas to adopt best practices aimed at reducing new HIV infections.
He named some of the best practices as the consistence condom use, voluntary male circumcision and voluntary counseling and testing among others.
That is sad to hear about rising rates. We have all been affected by this disease in one way or another. We have lost siblings, parents, and many friends.
Baba Kunchinda siti lesa yahi. Manje ni ka chindidwe. God help us! happy Friday night. Am happeeee!
HIV does not cause Aids. the two are separate!!! dont buy into the lies of these whites trying to sell drugs which only cause AIDS. Its all a business to them!!!
Buchendemonium
Most of the guest houses are fully booked by prostitutes who then charge only 50 pin per service, I discovered that when I tried to book a room at Kitwe Insaka yaba Kaonde
Poverty has escalated under PF. That’s the reason why new infections are up again, after they had slowed down. Poverty and HIV infections go hand in hand. Where is the ‘MORE MONEY IN YOUR POCKETS’ that PF had promised the Zambians?
Either read a medical journal on HIV and AIDS or don’t talk at all
It appears Zambia’s appetite for all things upwards has not taken quality into account: rising fuel and corn prices; rising traffic accident rates; rising HIV rates… I hope our leadership is looking at the potential good in downward things which also means taking Manda’s advice against over indulgence is s.e.x seriously…
It has increased coz Tongas have reduced in bonkin cows due to shortage so have resumed to bonkin tuma hules & their super sized dickks (umuzompki) can’t be fit an average condom…////
I’m willing to bet ARV drug shortages have contributed to this as well…missing medicines can increase viral loads. Government needs to acknowledge this is part of the problem.
You cant say such and such is on the rise without providing statistics. If the HIV rate in Zambian is rising, what are the statistics at least by region?
That was a doc who was talking. Isn’t it?
What has happened with the investigations of your director general? Where is the empirical evidence? What kind of methodologies were employed to arrive at this conclusion? What are the trends or variations in the perceived increase? Such questions could help in the formulation of effective prevention interventions apart from the first question of course.
The problem we have are you people who have undergone ‘spoon feeding’ education. Visit NAC website.
I was recently working on a assignment on the relationship between male circumcision and HIV/AIDS. While many studies have shown that MC reduces HIV infection by about 60 percent, some medical practitioners have studied questioning the protective role of MC. Some have even stated that some studies have shown that MC does not reduce the rate of HIV infection and may even increase it. Just enter the topic and surf the internet…..
From a USAID report:
“There appears no clear pattern of association between male circumcision and HIV prevalence—in 8 of 18 countries with data, HIV prevalence is lower among circumcised men, while in the remaining 10 countries it is higher.”
It is unclear if circumcised men are more likely to infect women. The only ever randomized controlled trial into male-to-female transmission showed a 54% higher rate in the group where the men had been circumcised.
ABC (Abstinence, Being faithful, and especially Condoms) is the way forward. Promoting genital surgery seems likely to cost African lives rather than save them.
Europeans don’t circumcise, South Americans don’t circumcise, Australasians don’t circumcise, and less than half of North Americans circumcise. Why should Africans…