Category: Gender & health

Xinhua Headlines-Xi Focus: Xi extends Spring Festival greetings to all Chinese

Xinhua Headlines-Xi Focus: Xi extends Spring Festival greetings to all Chinese Source: Xinhua Editor: huaxia 2024-02-03 01:30:15 Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, waves to villagers while visiting a village in Xinkou Town in Xiqing District of north China’s Tianjin Municipality, Feb. 1, 2024. (Xinhua/Xie Huanchi) TIANJIN, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) — President Xi Jinping has extended Spring Festival greetings to all Chinese people during his inspection tour in north China’s Tianjin Municipality from Thursday to Friday. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party...

Xictionary: High-quality development

Xictionary: High-quality development Source: Xinhua Editor: huaxia 2024-02-19 21:44:17 BEIJING, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has always put “high-quality development” among the top of his governance agenda, highlighting it as the first and foremost task in China’s efforts to build a modern socialist country in all respects. Xi made a significant judgment in 2017 that China’s economy had been transitioning from a phase of rapid growth to a stage of high-quality development. He noted that China had reached a critical stage in transforming its growth model and was faced with prominent problems such as rising labor costs,...

Southern Africa’s next generation of film & TV creators: MultiChoice Talent Factory welcomes Class of 2024

New students begin fully funded 12-month training programme By Derrick Sinjela and Simon Banda LUSAKA, 22 February 2024 – A fresh cohort of 20 passionate young filmmakers has begun an exciting year of film and television training at the MultiChoice Talent Factory Southern Africa Academy in Lusaka. The MTF Southern Africa Academy is one of three on the continent, where students spend 12 months gaining skills in screenwriting, editing, producing and directing – through study, and practical experience on TV and film productions. The fully funded curriculum includes workshops, lectures, masterclasses and assignments. MTF students learn alongside industry greats and...

Enact FCTC now, CPCR & TCCZ plead

    By Derrick Sinjela A DAY after resumption of the Second Session of the 13th National Assembly, the Center for Primary Care Research (CPCR) Senior Researcher Richard Zulu and Tobacco Control Consortium of Zambia (TCCZ) Acting Chairperson Albert Phiri held a joint Press Briefing at Lusaka’s Longarces Lodge reiterating a need for the Zambian Government to domesticate the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO-FCTC) ratified 16 years ago on Friday 23rd May 2008. During an interaction convened by Zambia Media Network Against Tobacco (ZAMNAT) Chairperson Ms. Paxina Phiri, both Mr. Zulu and Mr. Phiri regretted that...

Zambia: Chieftains, the Clergy and the Constitution

Zambia🇿🇲: Chieftains, the Clergy and the Constitution By Henry Kyambalesa In this article, I wish to answer the following question posed by Fred M’membe of the Socialist Party: “What will be unconstitutional about proposing changes in the law to accommodate policies and ideas that benefit and largely empower our people through their traditional and religious leaders?” 1. Changes to the Republican Constitution must never be made to satisfy the inclinations, or meet the political ambitions, of individual citizens or groups of citizens. 2. Chieftains and the clergy ascend to positions of authority through coronation; they are not elected by the...

REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA MINISTRY OF HEALTH PRESS STATEMENT ON THE CHOLERA SITUATION IN ZAMBIA

REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA MINISTRY OF HEALTH PRESS STATEMENT ON THE CHOLERA SITUATION IN ZAMBIA (Lusaka – 10TH February, 2024) Fellow citizens, Members of the Press, distinguished guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, GOOD MORNING It is a pleasure to be here in Bauleni to engage you all and see how together we can find solutions towards ending cholera in your community and indeed the whole country. We have been fighting this Cholera outbreak that commenced in October 2023 in Lusaka and then spread to all provinces in the country. This outbreak posed a threat to the health security of the nation and...

U.S. Government Delivers First Shipment of Injectable PrEP to Zambia

EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA LUSAKA, ZAMBIA ================================================================================= NR1343/2/9/2024 CONTACT: Phil Dimon FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Public Affairs Officer . Friday tyFebruary 9, 2024 Email: DimonPM@state.gov U.S. Government Delivers First Shipment of Injectable PrEP to Zambia Zambia is the first country in Africa to offer Cabotegravir Long Acting for HIV prevention outside of a study setting LUSAKA – Today, February 9, the United States government delivered to Zambia the first shipment of injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medicine for HIV prevention, making Zambia the second country in the world (after the United States) to offer injectable PrEP outside of a...

Exercise apps do not meet older people’s needs

Exercise apps do not meet older people’s needs UOC News 8 February 2024 Exercise apps do not meet older people’s needs A team of researchers at the hospital Parc Sanitari Pere Virgili and the UOC university analysed 15 apps to determine their usefulness for improving the online prescription of physical exercise Only one of the applications they analysed is backed by scientific evidence supporting its use by frail people In a context in which physical exercise is considered a key factor in healthy ageing, a group of researchers led by the physiotherapist at the Parc Sanitari Pere Virgili health complex...

SPEECH BY HONOURABLE SYLVIA T. MASEBO, MP MINISTER OF HEALTH DURING THE ANNUAL CONSULTATIVE MEETING HELD AT Mulungushi International Conference Centre ON WEDNESDAY  7TH FEBRUARY, 2024

REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA MINISTRYOF HEALTH SPEECH BY HONOURABLE SYLVIA T. MASEBO, MP MINISTER OF HEALTH DURING THE ANNUAL CONSULTATIVE MEETING HELD AT Mulungushi International Conference Centre ON WEDNESDAY 7TH FEBRUARY, 2024 • Your Excellency, the Swedish Ambassador to Zambia (who is also the outgoing Lead Cooperating Partner), Mr Johan Hallenborg; • The Country Manager, World Bank (who is also the incoming Lead Cooperating Partner), Mr. Achim Fock • The Permanent Secretary in Charge of Donor Coordination, Dr George Sinyangwe; • The Permanent Secretary in Charge of Administration, Professor Christopher Simoonga; • The Permanent Secretary in Charge of Technical Services, Dr....

Sebastian Scott  has few problems in his crop fields…He advises:

Sebastian Scott  has few problems in his crop fields…He advises: “Farmers, these long dry spells have always been there and will always be there. Share your management plans to reduce the negative impact on your yields and profits. We have a few. 1. Add organic matter to the soil using manure/compost. We apply this every year to our maize only, what remains the following season, goes to the legumes. Manure works for many years in the soil. 2. Add organic matter to the soil using green manure. We plant trees and shrubs in the field, we grow our crops between...

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