Zambia News

Lusaka, 16 March 2011 -- The 7th Polio Technical Advisory Group (TAG) Meeting for Angola, Congo and Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia and Zambia is taking place from 16th- 18th March, 2011 in Lusaka.

Lusaka,  18 March 2011 -- Recognizing the need to strengthen cross-border cooperation for effective disease surveillance and containment and in line with the 60th Session of the WHO Regional Committee Resolution on cross-border collaboration, the Ministers of Health from Angola, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia and Zambia, met in Lusaka the capital city of Zambia from the 17 to 18th March 2011.

Theme: "Antimicrobial resistance and its global spread”
Slogan: “No action today no cure tomorrow”

Zambia joined the international community in celebrating the World Health Day on 7th April under the theme “Antimicrobial resistance and its global spread”. The Ministry of Health in collaboration with the World Health Organization Country Office took the lead in forging a partnership with various partners and stakeholders to organize events to raise public awareness about the theme.

Lusaka 11, May , 2011 - Today Zambia joined the rest of the world in launching the United Nations’ 2011 -2020 Decade of Action on Road Safety at the Intercontinental Hotel in Lusaka. According to a WHO study, about 1.3 people are killed on the worlds’ roads annually leaving about 50 million people with injuries and maimed as a result of road traffic accidents.

road traffic accidents in the first quarter of 2010 resulting in death and serious injuries. These statistics shows that significant efforts must be made before more lives are lost

Lusaka 6th, June 2011 -- Zambia is hosting the 10th programme manager’s annual review and planning meeting for Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination (LFE), Schistosomias Control and Soil Transmitted Helminthiasis (STH) Control Programmes. The 5 day meeting which has brought together a total of 78 participants out of which 48 are programme managers will take place from 6-10 June 2011.

The WHO Country Office hosted a stakeholder’s consultative meeting on 26th October 2011 to review the draft five-year Joint Strategy for accelerating the scale up of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention in priority countries in East and Southern Africa. This strategy has been developed by WHO and other partners to ensure that by 2016, countries with generalized HIV epidemics and low prevalence of medical male circumcision would have stablished sustainable national male circumcision programmes.

Lusaka, 22nd November 2011 -- The second National HIV Prevention Convention opened in Lusaka yesterday under the theme “Securing Zambia’s future through combination HIV prevention, palliative care and treatment.” The 3-day convention has been convened by the Ministry of Health in collaboration with the National HIV/AIDS/STI/TB Council, the United Nations County Team in Zambia and other partners to take stock of progress made in terms of the resolutions which were adopted at the first HIV prevention convention which was held in 2009.

In 2011, the WHO Country Office embarked on a programme to strengthen disease surveillance activities in the country through donation of vehicles. A total of 6 provinces (Copperbelt, Luapula, Lusaka, Northern, Southern and Western Provinces) each received a vehicle for disease surveillance activities.

On February 10th, 2012, the WHO Country Office donated a Nissan Hard Body to the Central Province Medical Office in Kabwe. Central Province has a total of six districts namely, Kabwe, Chibombo, Kapiri Mposhi, Serenje, Mumbwa and Mkushi with a population of 1,300,000. 

In this issue:

- WHO donates to the New School of Medicine at the Copperbelt University

- WHO supports a demonstration course on the Afro Generic Training Package on Focused Antenatal Care (FANC)

- World No Tobacco Day in Zambia 31st May 2012

WHO News Zambia, June 2012

Lusaka, 9th October, 2012 -- The Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Joseph Kasonde has commissioned a National vaccine cold chain store for the Expanded programme on Immunisation with a total capacity of 200,000 litres to serve as a central storage facility and distribution point for vaccines for all the ten provinces in the country.