An investor from the Middle East has announced plans to build the first ever regional hospital in Zambia to provide cardiac surgery. SF Group Chief...
Have you tested HIV Positive, AHF Zambia offers advice

THE United Nations Population Fund Country Representative Mary Otieno has noted that Zambia had recorded 46 000 new HIV infections in 2016 and that...
Dimitria Lubinga collecting water from an unsafe open well that is 20 minutes walk from her house, Habeenzu village, Zambia

Kapiri Mposhi District has recorded 27 cases of cholera. Two people have since died from the viral infection in the district since the disease broke...
anthrax vaccination

Government says the anthrax disease which broke out in Muchinga Province has been contained.   Muchinga Province Minister Malozo Sichone said out of the 40 people...
Senanga Eye/Dental Camp

Government says it is committed to ending blindness and visual impairment in Zambia by establishing eye care health posts across the country.   ZANIS reports that...
sanitation

Lusaka City Deputy Mayor Chilando Chitangala has said Lusaka was suffering from a sanitation crisis which was claiming people’s lives through annual cholera, typhoid...
hepatitis

Four hundred million people globally are said to be infected with the hepatitis virus but only five percent of this number are aware that they...
malaria

UCT’s Drug Discovery and Development Centre, H3D, identifies a second potent anti-malarial candidate The University of Cape Town (UCT)’s Drug Discovery and Development Centre,...
Dr Catherine Muyeba, Consultant Psychiatrist

"Shakes, stiffness & difficulty feeding." Dr Catherine Muyeba describes symptoms of babies born addicted to #drugs https://t.co/XZxLKGmiah — Victoria Derbyshire (@VictoriaLIVE) July 5, 2016