Health

Minister of Health Syvia T Masebo has said Africa is in dire need of a Continental Framework for Mortality Surveillance to guide member states in the planning and implementation of their Mortality surveillance programs. Ms. Masebo said the Continental Framework...

A medical practitioner in Muchinga Province has raised concerns over the increasing levels of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) in Chinsali district. Muchinga Provincial Health Director, David Silweya says the district hospital has recently recorded an increase in STIs with...

Zimba District HIV/AIDS Co-ordination (DACA) Advisor Doreen Hamkankala says 5,000 condoms are earmarked for distribution next week to young people. Ms. Hamkankala says the condoms will be distributed in strategic places, adding that a lot of reproductive people...

The Ministry of Health has clarified that there is no shortage of Antiretroviral Drugs in Zambia as suggested by some media reports. Permanent Secretary for Technical Services Lackson Kasonka explains that the ministry has just faced a delay in the...

Despite the effort being made by the Government to provide improved health care services such as access to medicine in the country, there have been some impediments with the latest being the recall of white rose cotton wool by...

Vice President Mutale Nalumango says the government is working towards implementing a policy that will ensure that all health facilities in the country have access to maternal annexes. Mrs Nalumango explains that this will help ensure that every expectant mother...

Save Environment and People's Agency ( SEPA ) chief executive officer, Mailes Muke says a number of youths are at high risk of having poor sexual and reproductive health (SRH) due to myths surrounding the subject. Ms Muke says poor...

The government through the Ministry of Health has built and commissioned the Kasenga Mini Hospital in Chipangali District of Eastern Province at a total cost of One point five million United States Dollars. Chipangali Town Council Chairperson Maxson Nkhoma highlighted...

iSanitize has embarked on an initiative to engage selected Members of Parliament and other stakeholders to share perspectives, find common ground and reach a consensus on policy solutions on Access to Comprehensive Sexuality Education, Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights...

Monze District Director of Health, Gocho Kapoba, has disclosed that about 35 percent of expectant women in the district prefer to give birth at home while 65 percent desire to deliver from health facilities. Dr. Kapoba said this...