Health
Listen to your body and understand what it’s really trying to tell you
In medicine, the word "symptoms" is thrown around as if it were something bad. Doctors talk about the "symptoms of disease" and then they...
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Zambia has highest women death rate
The researchers calculated death rates in 187 countries using records from government registries, censuses, household surveys and other sources. Adult deaths have largely been neglected by the UN, except for AIDS and tuberculosis programs. The study was paid for by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Death rates were highest for men in Swaziland and for women in Zambia. Researchers also found death rates jumped in eastern Europe, perhaps because health systems fell apart after the collapse of the Soviet Union and widespread smoking. In sub-Saharan Africa, deaths have fallen, possibly due to the rollout of lifesaving AIDS drugs
Health
Zambia prison conditions spreading HIV, TB among inmates
"Sexual abuse is common, and children are particularly vulnerable to rape by adult inmates in their cells," it said.
The report said the food provided by the government was so inadequate that it had become a commodity traded for sex
Health
Nawakwi calls on all Zambian women to applaud Simbao’s decision
Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) President Edith Nawakwi has spoken highly of Health Minister Kapembwa Simbao for banning hospitals and clinics from requesting...
Health
AIDS fight not for financial gain
A SWEDISH HIV/AIDS ambassador has said combating the pandemic should not attract competition that is based on financial gains.
Lennarth Hjeimaker said in an interview...
Health
RB appoints Dr Peter Mwaba as new Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health
PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda has said the country has sufficient stocks of drugs but administrative lapses are responsible for the artificial shortage being experienced in...
Health
Government Committed to Improve the Health Sector, RB
President Rupiah Banda has said the government has never failed to provide adequate resources to the Ministry of Heath.
Speaking when he swore in new...
Feature Column
Voluntary counseling and testing crucial in AIDS fight
Many people shy away from VCT for various reasons, one of which is fear of stigma - real or imagined. They would rather treat diseases such as malaria and coughs. Some patients only decide to find out their HIV status when it is too late and their immune system is completely damaged.The most unfortunate part of all this is that even people who are literate, those who work in middle class jobs and some high profile personalities, are also part of the group shunning VCT