Category: Gender & health

Patriotic Front Government eager to create jobs – Timothy Hakuyu

By Derrick Sinjela published on Monday 11th July 2011 MINISTRY of Labour, Sports and Youth Permanent Secretary Timothy Hakuyu has said the Government is determined to create jobs and ensuring that they are, among others, decent and providing social protection. And Hakuyu has reiterated that the Government of Zambia was making fair progress on the Decent Work Agenda (DWA) in Africa. Officiating at the Zambia Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP) Advisory Committee Meeting at Mika Lodge in Lusaka, Hakuyu boasted that the country had since ratified major International Labour Organisation (ILO) Conventions promoting fundamental principles and rights at work. However,...

BoZ reduces statutory reserve ratios

By Derrick Sinjela published on Monday 11th July 2011 THE Bank of Zambia says the statutory reserves ration on both kwacha and foreign currency deposits have been reduced by 3 percentage points from 8% to 5%. With this reduction, BOZ estimates that a total K700 billion will be released, and that this liquidity will no available for non-lending to the various   sectors of the Zambian economy. According to a BoZ Press Statement made available last week indicated that the cost of holding this liquidity as unremunerated deposits of the Bank of Zambia had substantially reduced, as reflected in lower lending...

Ambassador Kanni Wignaraja regrets high school dropouts

Ambassador Kanni Wignaraja regrets high school dropouts

By Derrick Sinjela published on Monday 11th July 2011 Only 25 percent of all adult women in Zambia have reached secondary or higher level of education compared to 44.2 percent of their male counterparts; and drop-outs rates are still very high, too high, for girls, says United Nations (UN) Resident Coordinator Kanni Wignaraja. Wignaraja called for increased number of girls completing secondary school, and eventually proceeding to higher levels of tertiary education. Speaking during the Gender and Business-view from the top Breakfast Meeting, convened at the Taj Pamodzi Hotel in Lusaka, Wignaraja called for increased investment in girls and women’s...

Establish Youth Bank demands Amos Mwale

Establish Youth Bank demands Amos Mwale

By Derrick Sinjela published on Monday 11th July 2011 YOUTH Vision Zambia (YVZ) Executive Director Amos Mwale has called on financial lending institutions to provide other innovative resources to cater for the young people. Youth Vision wants the Zambian Government to heed pleas seeking introduction of a Youth Bank. Mr. Mwale said that the move by lending institutions to reduce the lending conditions was a welcome which needed to be complimented by introduction of innovative resources  targeted at young people. “Young people want to venture in business but stiff scared to borrow from these lending institutions as collateral conditionalities make...

We shall not legalise prostitution-Professor Nkandu Luo

We shall not legalise prostitution-Professor Nkandu Luo

By Derrick Sinjela published on Monday 11th July 2011 PROFESSOR Nkandu Luo, the Minister of Local Government, Housing, Early Education and Environmental Protection  has reiterated that sex work will not be legalised in Zambia as doing so would worsen the incidence of HIV/AIDS. Prof Luo said one of the founders of “Tasinta Drop-in-Center for reformed prostitutes said that legalizing sex and generally speaking prostitution in Zambia would sanction increasing the prevalence rate of HIV infections. Prof Luo said that instead of legalizing sex work, those agitating for such indiscriminate activities needed to economically empower young people attain independence. “If sex...

Dr Joseph Kasonde must prioritise sexual reproductive health-YVZ

By Derrick Sinjela published on Monday 11th July 2011 YOUTH Vision Zambia (YVZ) Executive Director Amos Mwale has challenged the Health Minister Dr Joseph Kasonde and his Ministry of Health (MoH) lieutenants at Ndeke House to pay attention to Sexual Reproductive Health by allocating more funding to the sector. Mr. Mwale said sexual reproductive health deserves more attention if the escalating maternal mortality rate was to be reduced. Mwale observed that failure to place priority of sexual reproductive health would eventually compromise interventions targeted at redressing maternal illnesses and deaths among expectant mothers. “Paying attention to reproductive health has been...

Zimba residents cry for mortuary

Zimba residents cry for mortuary

By Derrick Sinjela published on Monday 11th July 2011 ZIMBA is one of the small but largely expanded villages in Mufulira District on the Copperbelt Province with so many activities happening in the community A Zimba community resident Doris Mwansa complained that the former Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) Government did not deliver to there expectation when it was still in power especially when it came to empowering vulnerable communities. “Our village is big and when one dies we have to keep that person till the day of burial. When people die they have to put them in the house...

Toyota Zambia ploughs K10 million in Cricket tourney

Toyota Zambia ploughs K10 million in Cricket tourney

By Derrick Sinjela published on Monday 11th July 2011 TOYOTA Zambia has donated K 10 million towards the successful a cricket tournament set to take place on Sunday 13th of November 2011 at Lotus Sports Club in Lusaka Speaking during Zambia Sri-Lanka Friendship Association Press Briefing at Lusaka’s Southern Sun Ridgway Hotel, Co-coordinator for British community, Peter Cottan said the targeted amount of K 125 Million for the tournament had since been reached with the expected a prospect of exceeding the target. Cottan explained that 75 percent of the money raised would be ploughed into a Step-up-Centre, meant to help...

Men key in a healthy society prods Fransis Njang’iru

Men key in a healthy society prods Fransis Njang’iru

By Derrick Sinjela published on Monday 11th July 2011 MANAGER Membership Advisory Services (MMAS) Fransis Njang’iru holds a view that men’s unhealthy choices families and the entire community. In an interview with the author in Lusaka, Zambia,  NJang’iru said health educators needed specific knowledge and skills for addressing men’s cultural beliefs. Njang’ru said gender specific skills and knowledge must be made integral to development of communication skills at national, regional, continental and global levels. “In Africa, there are many cultural barriers that prevent men from taking some key positive health decisions. Men are the key drivers of Sexually Transmitted Diseases...

ZACD protecting children with disabilities

ZACD protecting children with disabilities

By Derrick Sinjela published Monday 11th July 2011 THE Zambia Association of Children with Disabilities (ZACD) has noted that parents blessed with children born with disability face challenges of stigmatization and discrimination. According to ZACD Committee Member Astridah Kaunda said 50 percent of parents and guardians of children born with disabilities faced the challenging prospect of divorce as men blamed their wives for the disability of their child. “Parents and guardians of children born with disabilities face a lot of challenges like stigmatization and discrimination in society. In a home, a man blames a wife for having a child with...

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