The Intercity Bus Terminus health post has tested over 1,500 people for HIV and placed 50 people on antiretroviral therapy (ART) from April last year to date. Head of HIV counselling Kasapo Likelo said each day, the health facility receives more than 20 people seeking HIV testing and other counselling services.
TEN babies were last year abandoned by their mothers at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) and were later handed over to the social welfare department. And a 33-year-old man of Garden Township has been abandoned by his relatives at UTH where he was being treated for injuries suffered in a road traffic accident in November […]
Over 1 million people living with HIV and on anti-retro-viral treatment (ART) in Zambia are at risk of having no medication as a new trend has emerged where some HIV negative people are accessing and abusing ARV’s to enhance their addiction to controlled substances. Treatment Advocacy and Literacy Campaign (TALC) Programs Manager Felix Mwanza says […]
BEING diagnosed with cervical cancer was like a death sentence, Wanga Mutale, an actress in a popular local series drama Mpali, says. Mrs Mutale, who plays the role of Amai Guru, was diagnosed with the disease in 2014. She could not bear the news and was at pains to inform her five children about her […]
A ZAMBIAN doctor, Mutenta Nyambe, who has done research on cervical cancer treatment using indigenous trees, has been invited to represent the Chemical Society of Zambia in Trinidad and Tobago, where he will also present his findings. Dr Nyambe, who is assistant dean for research and development at Texila American University in Lusaka, said the […]
By Francis Kope Zambian capital city Lusaka has for many years experienced floods which have posed threat on underground water. Last week several houses collapse due to heavy down pour and hospitals such as Chipata level 1 were not spared resulting into patients transfered to other hospitals. Apart from the Zambian government expressing regret on […]
A UNIVERSITY of Zambia (UNZA) Lecturer and Researcher, Dr. Lubinda Mukololo has identified ways in which the process of cell division in cancer cells can be slowed down. In his groundbreaking research that has also received funding from The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Dr. Mukololo has identified key proteins whose depletion from cancer cells […]
COUNSEL Mulambo Haimbe has exposed a scam in which Patriotic Front (PF) cadres are charging K20 each household of Bauleni Township to dump garbage at an allotted open space near the old Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) Transmitter. This money collected by cadres is clearly fraudulently obtained as the heaped garbage has remained uncollected for […]
KANYAMA Member of Parliament Elizabeth Phiri has expressed ignorance on the on- going construction of ablution blocks in the Southern wing of the dilapidated COMESA Market which is “illegally being erected on the road reserve. Meanwhile, United Party for National Development (UPND) Lusaka Central Aspiring Candidate Mulambo Haimbe has questioned the absence of Mayor Miles […]