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Over 1 Million Zambians Are HIV Positive – NAC

About one million one hundred thousand (1, 100, 000) out of the thirteen million Zambians are living with HIV and AIDS, this is according to the current projection.

This came to light during a two and half day%u2019s media symposium organized by the National Aids Council and UNDP at IBIS Gardens in Chisamba today.

National AIDS Council (NAC) Director of Programmes Dr. Harold Witola says in 2012, about thirty three thousand people died of HIV and AIDS.

Dr. Witola says about five hundred and thirty thousand people are on Antioretroviral therapy (ART) with more people targeted to access ART.

He says the mode of transmission as indicated in the 2009 survey have remained the same which include multiple and concurrent partners,low condom usage, marginalized groups such as prisons, mobility and migrant labour, mother to child transmission and low levels of male circumcision.

And speaking during the official opening of the symposium, NAC Acting Director General Elizabeth Choseni says NAC will continue to strive to attain the three zeros which are zero infections, zero deaths and zero stigma and discrimination.

Ms Choseni adds that NAC acknowledges the role mainstream media plays in disseminating information more especially HIV related and that this is why NAC and UNDP decided to hold an HIV media symposium.

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25 Responses to Over 1 Million Zambians Are HIV Positive – NAC

  1. Someone became Rich.SHAMEneni bane…!

    • UN Reply

      March 27, 2014 at 2:12 pm

      Shaaammmeeee!!!!!!!!, I hope you are innocent

  2. xx rated Reply

    March 27, 2014 at 2:10 pm

    Behavioral change looks to be the only solution, regardless of ones status.

  3. osward mwaisumo Reply

    March 27, 2014 at 2:24 pm

    As long as Zambians continue to be sexualholics with high libidos coupled with enlargements and usage of sex drugs,paying no attention behavior change, fighting HIV remains a big mountain to climb in

  4. Ex Zedian Reply

    March 27, 2014 at 3:35 pm

    Every 3rd person in Zed is HIV+ since i left Zambia all my friends and most people i knew died of the same disease…
    In Zambia prostitution is rife so that HIV+ men and women are spreading the disease like wild fire!! And those that are negative are so careless because the Antiretroviral drugs are given out for free.

  5. No sex No Food Reply

    March 27, 2014 at 4:01 pm

    • No sex No Food Reply

      March 27, 2014 at 4:04 pm

      This is the reality!!! Zambian women in Livingstone testify to sleepin with 20-35 men per day!!

  6. teckson nyirongo Reply

    March 27, 2014 at 4:11 pm

    Yes, its bcoz of prostitution from both the young & old alike. It has become a lucrative business in Zambia and should be taxed heavily. Hiv/Aids can be eradicated if it was confined to married couples only. U spend a lot on creams, powders, shoes, dressing,a new partner, enlarging or mutototo. God will definitely punish you whether you contracted hiv, used a condom, circumcised, paid for service or not but for sex outside marriage. Take those hearts in yo bodies & money to God who will recreate u, your mind will follow.

    • “I am suspicious of all the things that the average people believes.” Reply

      March 27, 2014 at 4:20 pm

      Which god Nyirongo naiwe?.. If you mean the fatherless jew, he was just a bastard looking for atention.

      • abena nyirongo Reply

        March 27, 2014 at 5:30 pm

      • Air Mukwai_ Reply

        March 27, 2014 at 8:35 pm

        Swallow your pride before the Almighty Lord. Then your eyes, ears, soul and mind shall be opened to see and appreciate his LOVE he has for you.

      • mj Reply

        March 28, 2014 at 5:44 am

        Icipumbu citila, lesa takwaba.( A fool says there is no God).

    • Zambia Reply

      March 28, 2014 at 1:58 am

      God doesn’t punish anyone with HIV/AIDS or any sicknesses, we are in the new covenant and Jesus took all sicknesses upon himself so that we might live in Divine Health and receive Divine healing when we need it. Please be empathetic over people living with HIV/AIDS others got it innocently through unfaithful spouses, blood transfusions etc. How do you explain the low levels of HIV/AIDS in developed countries and yet the rate of fornication and adultery may be higher, are you saying they are more pure. We need to fight this plague with everything and ensure we reach the levels of developed countries and even lesser. Fornication and adultery with or without a condom is still a sin. How do you explain a lot of people who have been committing/committed fornication and adultery but yet they have never contracted the disease are you saying those are better than the ones you have condemned. Preach the Gospel/Good news with power and demonstration of the Holy spirit and people will come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, and they will be delivered of all iniquities and sins ,and they will live a pure and Holy life before God. Be blessed.

  7. bitter truth Reply

    March 27, 2014 at 4:15 pm

    very informative video…hahaha prostitutes declares to be Christians… hypocrites!! I’d rather dump the ‘muzungu god’ in the gutter and concentrate on making money!

  8. Pimpette Reply

    March 27, 2014 at 4:23 pm

    no education no job, no parents, no husband what do you expect? Legalize prostitution so that women like these in the video can be screened for diseases and protected from rough clients.

  9. Christian Prostitutes Reply

    March 27, 2014 at 4:30 pm

    interesting to learn that prostitutes actually pray to god before going to “work” that they may find money enough to help them stop prostitution. It’s really hard for these women. I wish to open a brothel and help them make good money and protect them from bad “johns”

  10. Another Video of a Zambian prostitute Reply

    March 27, 2014 at 4:33 pm

    • Another Video of a Zambian prostitute Reply

      March 27, 2014 at 4:35 pm

      who’s future wife will these hule be?

  11. HIV + Zambian Prostitutes Video Reply

    March 27, 2014 at 4:40 pm

  12. katz musole Reply

    March 27, 2014 at 4:41 pm

    before it was savage killing but now it is civilised killing through
    1.0 HIV/AIDS TESTING
    2.0 TREATED MOSQUITO NETS
    3.0 FORTIFACATION OF FOOD STUFF E.G SUGAR ,MEALIE MEAL
    4.0 SINKING BORE AND THEN POUR SLOW KILLING POISON
    5.0 BIRD FLU

    PLEASE BE AWARE!!!!!!!!!!!

    A WHITE MAN IS OUR NUMBER 1 ENEMY

    • ╭∩╮(︶︿︶)╭∩╮ Reply

      March 27, 2014 at 5:08 pm

      plz stop blaming the white man for your ignorance.

      • xx rated Reply

        March 27, 2014 at 5:19 pm

        @ Thumbs Up, You are right, all listed critics are not racial related.

  13. Meanwhile in Kabwe Reply

    March 27, 2014 at 5:02 pm

  14. PIMP MOTHER Reply

    March 28, 2014 at 1:26 am

    Your fairytale GOD let them become infected in the first place.

  15. Shokolokobangoshay Reply

    March 28, 2014 at 9:13 am

    Zambia shall be saved!!!

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