The United States (US) government says it will continue advising and assisting Zambia in the fight against HIV/AIDS in order to reduce the prevalence rate of the pandemic in the country.
US Ambassador to Zambia, Donald Booth, said his government was committed to the HIV/AIDS fight and has in this regard provided more than half a billion dollars to Zambia through the US Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS relief .
Speaking when he paid a courtesy call on Mkushi District Commissioner (DC), Mwila Kunda during his familiarization tour of Central Province yesterday, Mr. Booth said he was very impressed with the strategies put up by the Zambian government in its quest to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
The Ambassador, who was accompanied by USAID Director, Mellissa Williams and other US embassy officials, said in the few months that he has been in the country, he has noticed with great amusement the partnership that exists between government, NGOs and the church in the fight against the pandemic.
He said he was impressed that Zambia, through the support of his government and other collaborating partners, has made tremendous strides in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
He added that he was deeply moved and inspired by those who, regardless of their HIV positive status, have come aboard and made contributions of different sorts to the HIV/AIDS fight.
Mr. Booth however said the fight against the scourge should not be left to the government alone but that every responsible citizen should participate in the fight in order for the country to emerge victorious in the war.
The Ambassador took time to inspect some USAID funded projects being undertaken in the area interacted with both the local community and his fellow nationals in the Mkushi framing block.
He observed that real Zambia lied in the rural communities hence his stay in the country would be incomplete if he did not tour the rural communities and interact with them.
He also observed that the spread of HIV/AIDS was quit rampant in rural areas hence the reason why USAID prioritized and strengthened its outreach projects in such areas.
Mr. Booth further applauded his fellow nationals for the contribution they were making towards the economic development of Zambia.
He said his country has enjoyed good relations with Zambia and that the two shall continue working as partners in development, even amidst the global economic challenges.
Mr. Booth also made a stop over at Tusekelemo Medical Centre run by the Mkushi White Farmers Association.
And speaking earlier, Mkushi District Hospital Director Rosemary Mwanza said the HIV prevalence rates have drastically dropped in the area following the consistent outreached programmes done by the hospital in conjunction with USAID funded projects such as CHAMP and Africare.
Mr. Mwanza said CHAMP and Africare have contributed immensely to the reduction of the spread of HIV in the area.
She said with the help of the two NGOs, remote areas such as Mboroma Ching’ombe and Chembe have been reached, adding that a lot of HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns as well as Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) services have been tackled.
She added that the response among the people in the remotest areas of the district was overwhelming unlike those in the townships.
She said in places such as Mboroma, the hospital has recorded few or no cases of HIV positive people.
However, Dr. Mwanza noted that VCT was more prominent among the female community unlike their male counterparts.
She said the ignorance among the male community in the district regarding HIV/AIDS issues still remained a challenge and threatened the mitigation of the scourge in the area.
She said women actively participated in HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns thereby contributing to the HIV/AIDS fight more than men.
And Dr.Mwanza said the major constraint that the hospital was currently facing was lack of qualified staff at rural health posts.
She said both the hospital and the rural health posts were understaffed due to lack of accommodation for health staff in the area.
She charged that lack of accommodation, coupled with high rentals demoralized heath workers and as a result they left the district for greener pastures.
Dr. Mwanza observed that the plight was even worse for those in the health posts because accommodation was limited and was not conducive enough for them.
She said a qualified nurse sent to a rural health posts definitely had an option between living in a grass thatched house with no electricity and working at a private clinic in urban areas.
She therefore appealed to government to consider constructing decent accommodation for health staff in order to boost their moral.
Dr. Mwanza said this will motivate the health workers as well as enable them to operate efficiently.
Meanwhile, Mkushi District Commissioner Mwila Kunda commended the US Ambassador to Zambia for visiting the district.
Mr. Kunda said the Ambassador’s visit was a clear indication that the US government cared about the plight of the rural community in Zambia.
He said the visit was especially important to the Ambassador as it would give him an understanding of how the donation which the US government was making to Zambia in the fight against AIDS was being spent.
He added that such visitations enabled the rural community, especially people infected with the virus to know who was supporting them.
Mr. Kunda expressed gratitude to the US government for helping reduce the HIV prevalence rate in the district as earlier indicated by Dr. Mwanza.
He hoped that the US government would continue helping Zambia even after changing government.
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Good one l-)
Zambians, we must win this fight against HIV/AIDS!
Good to know Oboma will continue. Bad as Bush was, I think we should give credit where it is due. Since bush came to power I rarely hear about HIV funerals nowadays. Ba Kaboke bali pa ARVs. Thanks MR Bush most of my friends are now FAT govt officials driving 4X4s and looking health just like Magic Johson, but I just wish they also could go public
The truth is that real change for the better is in the hands of the Zambian people themselves and not the Americans.
there is an epidemic in your own backyard! pls stop sending condemned drugs to africa. most of those drugs have horrible side effects like making people fat, big behinds, developing camel backs, big heads and necks etc!!
Nine Chale, ndiwe makaliwanu! Do have a PHD in #1. Congrats.
we hope that the new government will put in more money for the aid of the people who need it
Zambia can still do better as regards the the fight of the scourge if only resources that are received from the donor community are put to intended use. Too many organisations in the name od aiding the infected or affected have mushroomed with their directors pocking the resources. Such acts are amoral and must be checked and countered.
just send us the same medicine you gave to Magic Johnson
#10.
First of all, help to fight povert;unemployment,and educate the masses then u can fight HIV/AIDS.Thats the root cause, then the cure will follow. **==
Ba Mrs Jenipher Musonda (outgoing Copperbelt PS), can you explain how you managed to put up a borehole at Tudor Inn, pay for air tickets for your husband and children to go for a holiday in Ameria, and how money was being deposited in your personal accounts. Those eight suspended Copperbelt Province accountants have all this information. You must sit tight pantu balaifumya data yonse iyi. You must join Samuel Musonda in jail.
And speaking earlier, Mkushi District Hospital Director Rosemary Mwanza said the HIV prevalence rates have drastically dropped in the area following the consistent outreached programmes done by the hospital in conjunction with USAID funded projects such as CHAMP and Africare. Mr. Mwanza said CHAMP and Africare have contributed immensely to the reduction of the spread of HIV in the area.
She said with the help of the two NGOs, remote areas such as Mboroma Ching’ombe and Chembe have been reached, adding that a lot of HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns as well as Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) services have been tackled. However, Dr. Mwanza noted that VCT was more prominent among the female.
SPOT THE MISTAKES IN THE ABOVE PASSAGE. BAKA-REPORTER BATUSEBANYA PLEASE.
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Good to hear that the US’ is going to continue the support against Aids. However, the US’ should stop playing double standards against Africans/others from other countries that are ‘HIV’ Positive. This particularly in relation to ‘Entry’ into the United States. While HIV/AIDS is predominant and endemic in Africa, nobody questions Americans/British people on their status when entering some African countries. Although this might be blamed on our immigration policies, I see no reason why these people should come in and out of our country without strict health check ups. In as far as this issue of HIV/Aids is concerned, these ‘rich people’ capitalising on the exchange rates excerbate…
Continued from #17…the spread of the disease. I think we should adopt the same strategy/system followed by the Americans/British and Australians in relation to VISA applications. The worst part in this is that, ‘when a black person/people decide to visit the Western World,…they are/we are seen as economical migrants…yet when the’Whites’ visit Africa or the third World…they are seen as tourists and there is no system to check these guys out…health wise that is. Is this right really? You get a lot of these low lives that come to Africa to just dish the dirt out…believe me it is true!!
Well thats rather cool :d
Donor syndrome should come to an end.We should do everything posible to combat our own AIDS within our own efforts,not begging all the time coz one day America wont be there for us. All we need is leadership to play major role in fighting HIV/AIDS in Zambia.And sexually active people try to use ABC. o-+o->
#18 spot on.
Among the two developed countries mentioned, Australia and the US top the list.
You can never be granted any type of visa to touch Australian soil if you are HIV+VE and no humanitarian grounds have ever won this battle and I dont blame them.. as they have managed to contain the disease to the lowest %level..
Zambia sufferes from the social stigma attached to this disease and hence it will take time to get there.
Though I believe the NGO’s are doing their best.
CONGRATS NGO’s =d>=d>
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“PATRIOTIC Front (PF) president Michael Sata yesterday challenged President Rupiah Banda to tell the nation what he had gone to do in Libya since he went without journalists from government-controlled media, including press aide Dickson Jere.”
ZAMBIANS NOW WILL START TO PAY FOR THE EIGHT TRACTORS FROM LIBYA. LI CROOK BA RB. HE DOESN’T TRUST EVEN HIS GOVT SPONSORED MEDIA. ZAMBIAN URANIUM HAS BEEN SOLD FOR EIGHT TRACTORS. WATCH OUT.
# 5 Input, you need to be sensible. # 12 tell us more, you seem to know what someof us don’t know.
If you do a research on HIV/AIDS on the computer YOUTUBE!!! Type in Cure for HIV or Man made HIV you will be shocked.Check out DR Hulda Clark cure for disease you will shocked every thing makes sense. Zambians need start eating salads in Zambia all the vegs are always over cooked coz someone lierd sp to us to say if you dont cook your vegs you will get worms its the opposite . Buy a juicer get organic rep ,beets / carrots juice them or eat them RAW!!!!!!!!!!!!! When one is sick stay away from sugar and Nishma, Eat alot of RAW vegs and Fruits and Little meats .Do your research tell other Zambian share info love one another not umulomo all the time . Study LAWS of ATTRACTION google it .Amen
AS long as my Mom can remmeber when she was growing up a year could go by may be only one or two people died and by the way at the time none of them where given Vaccine!!!!! now people die Left and Right.
Also check out 2009 chinese Zodiac its the Truth. China is doing great its all over this . This year the kids who be born 2009 will OX pay off big for there parents, again do research before you blush off something it might save your Life.
Note:Lies travel way much faster than the truth . So was HIVAIDS it can out of nowhere andit traveled like wild fire hehe and people started dying like crazy. Remember Fear of anything can kil like HIV/AIDSand Drugs is something made inthe Lab 4emergency
Its a weekend
We made more bucks and we can …..edited
Lil wayney’s lyrics in a track called ransom
somehow its the same with my story
President Barack Obama on Friday struck down the Bush administration’s ban on giving federal money to international groups that perform abortions or provide abortion information an inflammatory policy that has bounced in and out of law for the past quarter-century.Obama’s move, the latest in an aggressive first week reversing contentious Bush policies, was warmly welcomed by liberal groups and denounced by abortion rights foes.”Coming just one day after the 36th anniversary of the tragic Roe v. Wade decision, this presidential directive forces taxpayers to subsidize abortions overseas something no American should be required by government to do,” said House Minority Leader John BoehnerRep.
contd, Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., called it “morally wrong to take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans to promote abortion around the world.”For those christians who can pray and call heaven down it’s time to pray and let righteousness prevail on this earth and overcome every ungodliness.
Rupia Banda was born in the town of Miko, Gwanda, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe); his parents had come from Northern Rhodesia to find employment prior to his birth
#5 you are right,.
I know of two.
One has a fat kneck, has to turn around the whole body, not head alone..
The other has a big belly of a 9 months pregnancy look and then her legs are extremely pencil thin..
I swear to you this is true..
I wonder what type of formula these drugs are wich has such disfiguring side effects. :-l:-l:-l:|:|:>:>:>8->
Ba Cutey,abapongoshi bandi mulishani?kale mwe .
I hate condoms!!! :(|)
Esp after helping ‘design’ the visur….such moves are welcome
Esp after helping ‘design’ the virus….such moves are welcome
Morning Ba Maureen. I like #34. What do you think? :d
#3. Prescribe something for VJ. Who can he whip in parliament with that skeletal frame? I am sure he wouldn’t mind a fat neck, big belly, as long as his clothes fit.
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OK ba LT natubuka nomba. Baby C would let me use her :o):o):o):o):o):o)
uuh:o whats just woken up about to say my prayers.
Alá Akbar. Dios es gran bendice este sitio web
OK ba LT back to |-)
Let me know when a new story pops up.
Money we receive from donors but the badness is that the receipients pocket the money and change for thje intended purpose.You should stop stealing day light .ccbi sana ba kapala! >:)>:)>:)
Thanx USA. We want the likes of sarah jones and cutey to live longer.
The blog is boring! baby c, suppergal, rashid, zoe, pumpy, ba moze and gazzie were are kanshi? Maestro, engines and fine , i hate your long analysis. Please try to shorten them. Most bloggers dont evn read then.
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#37 i think he is a carrier ! why else would he hate condoms ? whats up ?!
Awe no mutwe wakalipa. Too much ubwalwa yesterday |-)
#49 Wamona waitweleko fye weka. Ine elo nayamba uku bumuka utuma Pilsner !
Ba Chewe ba pongoshi,
Kale mwe chachine. Muli shani?..
Ine, Iam on a lovely break and long weekend at Hamilton islands and having a ball of my life. ( of course with the whole family)
Time to chill out ka!! LOL <:-p<:-p<:-p<:-p<:-p=))=))=))=))=))=))=))=))=))
#45
get a life.
Why start something you cannot finish.
taka care whilst loking for that life.. you are a harzardous element on earth incubating the disease.
You are an HIV+ve time bomb. zwaaaaa!!!!! %-(%-(%-(%-(%-(:-t:-t:-t:-t:-t
#52, should read, take care whilst looking for that life.
Bala kaka. A timely advice b4 you expire. You are on window period bakamba, do not forget that. 😮
“Mr. Booth however said the fight against the scourge should not be left to the government alone but that every responsible citizen should participate in the fight in order for the country to emerge victorious in the war.”
True and great observation. We as Zambian people have to work hard to stop some of these things that we can. There is no need to always llok to the government, and it cooperating partners like the US government, for everything. With this, I hope each Zambbian Citizen will take a serious role in the fith against HIV/AIDS.
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LT 2008 Award Winner. =; for Zambia in 2011.
Qoute of the week:
“She said a qualified nurse sent to a rural health posts definitely had an option between living in a grass thatched house with no electricity and working at a private clinic in urban areas.”
Definitely, life is about weighing the different available options and choosing the best one.
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LT 2008 Award Winner. =; for Zambia in 201.
The mistakes should have been noticed by the editor how can one be addressed as Rosemary and turns into a Mr. and then a doctor.????????????????????