Category: Gender & health

…El Niño-driven floods hampering their access to basic services such as education and healthcare in Isoka District By SIMON MUNTEMBA ALL-WEATHER crossing points and roads in rural areas provide connections for communities not only to access the social services they need safely and conveniently, but also access to markets for agricultural produce by subsistence farmers. Unfortunately, almost every rainy season, Milongo Resettlement area under Chief Kafwimbi of Isoka District, Muchinga Province which is surrounded by the Nansala River and some streams is usually cut off from basic services and goods due to lack of proper crossing points and road network....

Kapiri Mposhi, July 26–The Network of Zambian People Living with HIV/AIDS (NZP+), in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Churches Health Association of Zambia (CHAZ) conducted a two-day training workshop in surveillance and pandemic preparedness for 31 community based volunteers from Kapiri Mposhi district on 24th and 25 July 2024. The training aimed to equip community based volunteers with knowledge and skills to effectively respond to disease outbreaks in their respective communities and how report such cases to health facilities. The workshop covered topics such as pandemic preparedness, disease outbreak response, infection control measures, and data collection for disease...

PROTECT AFRICAN CHILDREN FROM HARMFUL “KIDDIE PACKS” TOBACCO, SAYS ATCA July 7, 2024 ….Lusaka Globally, public health promotion has constantly come under pressure due to an array of harmful activities such as tobacco consumption which puts at risk millions of lives, especially those of children who are now targeted by “Kiddies Packs”, a new form of cigarette packaging aimed at attracting young ones, FRANCIS LUNGU reports. This has caused 60 tobacco control advocates representing 54 organisations from 25 African countries, Zambia inclusive, to appeal to the government of Pakistan to refuse the alleged push by the British American Tobacco (BAT)...