Category: Education

By Sandrah Mulluka In partnership with Ministries of Health across Africa, the Merck Africa Oncology Fellowship Program provides one-year and two-year oncology fellowship programs and a three year master degree in medical oncology at Tata Memorial Centre, India, University of Nairobi, Kenya and Alexandria University, Egypt, respectively DARMSTADT, Germany, October 2, 2017/ — Merck gives back to society through Merck Foundation’s programs to build cancer care capacity in Africa. Merck Foundation provides Africa with Twenty New Oncologists through Merck Africa Oncology Fellowship Program established in India, Kenya and Egypt. SDG 3 calls us to sustainably invest on building healthcare capacity to...

  By Lilian Saka Kiefer  Executive Director, Panos Institute Southern Africa (PSAf) Email: general@panos.org.zm, Tel: +260978778148/9 Katete, Friday, 8th  September 2017 COMMUNITY members in Kagoro, Keni and Yambani areas of Katete District in the Eastern Province are calling for increased government support for them to access seedlings of indigenous and exotic tree species that will enable them to arrest rampant deforestation in the areas. In response to the massive deforestation and land degradation that has left most of the area bare and caused soil infertility, Panos Institute Southern Africa (PSAf) mobilised community members in the three areas and other parts of...

By Ms. Bernadette Deka PMRC Executive Director Dear Friends and Colleagues, Child marriage is widely recognized as a violation of children’s rights and a direct form of discrimination against girls who are often deprived of their basic rights to health, education, development and equality. The practice of child marriage is a violation of girls’ human rights and puts girls’ health at risk, hinders their ability to exercise their rights to choose who, if, and when to marry; to pursue their right to education; and in many cases, may also impede their legal and economic rights. Child marriage ultimately violates a girl’s aspirations...

By Derrick Sinjela PATRIOTIC FRONT (PF) Kasama Central Member of Parliament (MP) Kelvin Mutale Sampa is a man of the people in Kasama, Northern Province with a passion for development which is founded when he served as President of the National Initiative for Citizens Awareness (NICA). Before his latest passion as a parliamentarian, Mr. Sampa (KMS) studied Social Sciences at Mulungushi University in Kabwe Central Province after concluding Grade Twelve at Munali High School in Lusaka, thus sharing an educational heritage with former First Republican President Dr. Kenneth David Buchizya Kaunda. Spearheading development is a key component of Sampa, since...

By Andrew Chinambu Cutting Edge The Ministry of Health in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has mandated EQUIP Health to assist with rolling out a Test & Treat programme targeting 65,000 HIV-positive individuals in fiveprovinces in Zambia, namely: Central, Copperbelt, Luapula, Muchinga and Northwestern provinces. This is on the back of His Excellency President Edgar Chagwa Lungu’s speech at the HIV Testing, Counselling and Treatment Day event on 15thAugust 2017. The HIV and AIDS scourge continues to be one of the biggest threats to Zambia’s development agenda. Since the first reported case of HIV was confirmed in Zambia in 1984, approximately one million citizens have died of AIDS-related illnesses. Despite the availability of...