Zambia News

Lusaka, 9 June 2017 - The WHO Regional Director for Africa Dr. Matshidiso Moeti has appointed Dr. Custodia Das Dores Isaac Mandlhate, a national of Mozambique as the Acting WHO Representative for Zambia. Dr. Mandlhate takes over from Dr. Jacob Mufunda who has been reassigned to the WHO Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville. Dr. Mandlhate arrived in Zambia on 6 June 2017. She was warmly welcomed by the WHO Country Office staff.

11 March 2002, Lusaka - The Ministry of Health and the Central Board of Health in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have began a major polio immunization exercise in the Western and North-Western Provinces in the country.

WHO Co-Sponsors The ZAAA 2002 Inter-Company Relay Under The Theme "Move For Health"

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Zambia Ready To Vaccinate Over One Million Children Against Polio In This Year's Sub- National Immunisation Days

13th Inter-country training course on the Expanded Programme on Immunization for mid-level management opens in Lusaka

20th November 2007, Lusaka -- The National Mental Health Conference was officially opened yesterday at the Mulungushi International Conference Centre by the Minister of Health, Honourable Brian Chituwo. The conference is organized under the auspices of the Mental Health Association of Zambia and the Ministry of Health under the theme “No Health Without Mental Health: Time for Action to Meet the Challenges”.

24th January 2008, Lusaka -- The Ministry of Health in collaboration with other partners in maternal and child health launched the National Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health at a ceremony which was held at Chilenje urban clinic on Wednesday, 23rd January, 2008. The Honourable Minister of Health, Dr. Brian Chituwo officially launched the partnership. In his launch statement, Dr. Chituwo stated that the partnership has been formed to harmonise resources and galvanise interventions aimed at improving the health and survival of mothers, newborns and children.

WHO Good Governance for Medicines Programme Conducts the Second Inter-Regional Training Workshop on Assessment of National Medicines Programmes - ZAMBIA

8th April, 2008

Maseru, 12 December 2008 -- In yet another milestone effort to reduce childhood sicknesses and deaths from preventable diseases, the Minister of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW), Dr. Mphu Ramatlapeng, officially launched the Pentavalent vaccine, for the first time in the history of Lesotho.

Thanks to the collaborative efforts of the MOHSW, WHO, UNICEF, the GAVI Alliance and other partners, this life-saving vaccine was introduced to provide more protection to children in the country.

Lusaka -The Ministry of Health in collaboration with UNICEF, WHO, USAID and other partners in maternal and child health launched the Infant and Urban Clinic on 18th February 2009. The Minister of Health, Honourable Kapambwe Simbao, MP, officially launched the campaign which is specifically targeted at fighting malnutrition among children under the age of five.