THE National Aids Council (NAC) has bemoaned the low usage of condoms especially the female condoms among Zambians.
NAC Civil Society Coordinator Scrivener Kambikambi said his organisation was worried on the low usage of female condoms in the country.
Speaking in Livingstone yesterday during the condom use campaign dubbed “ CONDOMISE”, Mr Kambikambi said his organisation had embarked on a national wide campaign for condom use in order to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS.
He said despite the country’s prevalence rate dropping to about 14.3 per cent, there was need for continued sensitisation on the use of condoms.
Mr Kambikambi said NAC wanted to explore all possible ways of how people in communities could access and use condoms.
“We have realised that there are bottom necks in the distribution of condoms so we want to use non health facilities such as Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and Community Based Organizations (CBOs) to reach out to as many people as we can,” Mr Kambikambi said.
Mr Kambikambi said condom use was one of the most effective ways of preventing HIV/AIDS in the country.
He said Medical Stores currently had about 40 million pieces of uncollected condoms which were supposed to be distributed to communities.
Mr Kambikambi said the organisation was also faced with a challenge of clearing the air on the distribution of condoms in schools because some sectors of society claimed that the introduction of condoms in schools was meant to promote promiscuity.
He said NAC was doing so because some pupils were sexually active and they needed to protect themselves from sexually transmitted diseases and un-wanted pregnancies.
“As a country we are getting somewhere because the country’s prevalence rate has now dropped to 14.3 percent. A lot of people are on medication but the battle is far from being won,” Mr Kambikambi said.
Mr Kambikambi said the low use of female condoms was also attributed to cultural and traditional beliefs which in most cases did not allow women to have sex matters in homes.
“So we want women to realise that that can also be in control. We want them to decide because we know they can have control over it,” Mr Kambikambi said.
Why waste your time advising PF thugs, YOU KNOW SATA IS A THUG LOOK AT HOW THE F00L ALMOST BROUGHT GENOCIDE DURING THIRD TERM.
WHERE IS TB JOSHUA NO PROPHESY.?
Ba father but it’s u who campaigned for him now see the calamity and mess u brought for us. That sacrifice u made was evil no wonder we have more accidents it’s because of sata
….yuk! I hope it is not a used one!
As per Kiswahili , Zambians like Nyama Kwa Nyama.
we ought to change our culture when its comes to usage of condoms…i think its does us no good to pretend the our girls n boys aren’t having sex in our schools..condoms should be given to the students, n students should access them at nearby school tuck shop..always!
if we really have to fight aids in our country..we need a change of culture when it comes to condoms…4 the better, or else ma live n same problems again n again…..
Why give girls/boys condoms. lekeni fye baileicita. Can u eat nsima wrapped in a plastic bag
Now let’s talk about the picture above. Is that really a condom or a balloon? If it is a condom, why is that woman just watching a child put a condom in its mouth. Even the cameraman!
……Mr Kambikambi u have the answer already……..you rightly pointed out that………’country’s prevalence rate has drop’ which is direct proportion to promiscuity which is in turn direct proportion to use of condoms. Female condoms are very ‘complicated’ and clams…not suitable for the purpose
@shimapalo you better growup brother, aids is real, its damn real and it kills brother:
“We have realised that there are bottom necks in the distribution of condoms so we want to use non health facilities such as Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and Community Based Organizations (CBOs) to reach out to as many people as we can,” Mr Kambikambi said.
I am now scared. The officer from AIDS Council actually said BOTTOM NECKS! What are these BOTTOM NECKS kanshi? Is is the PF way of calling BOTTLE-NECKS? Anyway it is DONCHI KUBEBA Technical Expertise. I am told the entire NAC does not even have a Medical Doctor who understands issues of HIV better. It is like appointing a teacher to head the Supreme Court of Zambia. PF is ruling. Ndeloleshafye.
Iwe Kambikambi isn’t male circumcision enough? You want my girl to use a condom and me too a condom plus am circumcised!!!! You want s.ex to be tasteless? My girl is ok with my being circumcised so where is the need for her to collect condoms from medical stores?
What do you expect when you’re telling men to get circumcised, and women to get their men and children circumcised as a preventive measure for HIV, STI’s and cervical cancer, and live sex been so nice?