President Levy Mwanawasa says more Zambians have died of HIV AIDS, contrary to the official figure of 90 thousand people.
Dr. Mwanawasa has directed Health Permanent Secretary, Simon Miti, to revise the current statistics because they are out-dated.
The President issued the directive when United Nations HIV AIDS envoy for Africa, Elizabeth Mataka, called on him at State House in the Southern African nation’s capital, Lusaka, Friday.
Dr. Mwanawasa also said HIV AIDS is the biggest hindrance to Zambia’s economic development.
He said Zambia is among the worst hit by HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Dr. Mwanawasa said over 200-thousand Zambians require Anti retro Viral drugs.
He however said 100-thousand are currently accessing the HIV/AIDS drugs.
The Zambian leader said a high level committee of cabinet ministers has been constituted to provide leadership in the fight against HIV AIDS.
And Mrs. Mataka said African countries need to scale up efforts towards eradicating the HIV AIDS pandemic.
Mrs. Mataka pledged to enhance promotion of universal access to HIV AIDS drugs.
She also promised to scale up efforts towards empowering women to enable them contribute to the fight against HIV AIDS.
Courtesy of ZNBC
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Dr Chuchu, plz don’t wash dirty napkins in publish. Learn to confront your ministers in privacy not in press. Anyway, it’s too late for you to release the incompetence of Miti at this hour. The best you can do is to fire him and replace him with Mpombo or Mulya. Besides you seem to know everything on HIV/AIDS stats, then why can you give us the figures from your dream bank?
Dr Chuchu, plz don’t wash dirty napkins in publish. Learn to confront your ministers in privacy not in press. Anyway, it’s too late for you to realize the incompetence of Miti at this hour. The best you can do is to fire him and replace him with Mpombo or Mulya. Besides you seem to know everything on HIV/AIDS stats, then why can you give us the figures from your dream bank?
MMD cadres, plz leave his Excellence Hon Sata alone and just talk about ilenda.
simon miti is incompetent
Iwe Joze #1.
PS for MoH is just too small a job for me. I’m a minister mind you. Part of my job is lick the boots of the doc. I’m well said for that.
#4 Mpombo
Kabili niwebo uwa “cover” who can be used apaba icipunda regardless of seniority post status. Walabashani Mpombo? Soon you will be directed to start havesting organic fruits from Teka farm.
Joze,
MMD is a ruling party with inexpendable reach and grip everywhere around the country.Zambians and Voters hear and are daily served by the MMD on all media news bulletins.MMD has no battles to position itself over anything(DAs).To be affected, it needs a smart driven engagement and not your zero value-return Portuguese hallucinations. Ever wondered why you are left freely treading on all defamation routes? Evidently you lack intellect and strategy.Watch the space from Nchanga henceforth.
Politicians should not direct stats; they should fund and train qualitified people to do the job. HIV prevalence is just under 13% among 15-49 yo (about 1,000,000 zambians) among whom approx 190,000 already need ART. If 100,000 are accessing ART and the vast majority have lives extended, and the rest are using other methods, a death tally of 98,000 (with some statistical uncertainty bounds of say 75,000-120,000) sounds reasonable to me, at face value. Figures arent lawyers’ best friend.
90,000…only…be serious!!!!who is the ***** who compiles these figures???