A public health research NGO conducting scientific research into the dual epidemics of tuberculosis and HIV, ZAMBART has noted the need for more effective prevention strategies to steeply reduce the number of new HIV infections in the country. ZAMBART conducted a cluster -randomized trial of the impact of a combination prevention package on population-level HIV incidence in Zambia and South ...

World Vision Zambia and Barclays Bank Zambia PLC have signed a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at improving the wellbeing of more than 15,000 underprivileged children and their families in Chongwe and Chilanga Districts with an investment of about K1.1 million. World Vision Zambia National Director John Hasse says the MOU will see the two organizations helping in the construction of a ...

Home Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo says his Ministry intends to recruit 3, 000 police officer this year. Mr. Kampyongo was responding to a question by Mkushi North Member of Parliament Doreen Mwape, who wanted to know how many Police Officers were recruited from 2015-2018, year by year, when the next recruitment will be undertaken and how many police officers will be ...

Agriculture Minister Michael Katambo has revealed that government has so far paid over 500 million kwacha to agro-dealers under the E-Voucher system. Mr. Katambo has told Parliament in a ministerial statement that as at 4th February,2019, a total of 998, 791 representing 99.9 percent of the targeted one million farmers in both E-Voucher and direct input supply districts had successfully ...

National Democratic Congress (NDC) Consultant Chishimba Kambwili has been granted a K3,000 cash bail with two working sureties each to pay K8,000 in case of default by the accused. And Mr Kambwili has pleaded not guilty to the charge of  expression or showing hatred,ridicule or contempt for persons because of race,tribe or place of origin or colour contrary to section ...

Justice Minister Given Lubinda says the Constitution refinement process will go ahead next month with or without the participation of the Opposition Alliance. Mr Lubinda says the constitution refinement process will commence as scheduled in the second week of March. He says government is confident that once this process is complete, the Constitution Amendment Bill which requires a two thirds ...

Pakistan’s military has accused India’s air force of violating its airspace, and says it scrambled jets in response. Military spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor tweeted: “Indian Air Force violated Line of Control. Pakistan Air Force immediately scrambled. Indian aircrafts gone back. Details to follow.” He added that Indian aircraft “released [a] payload in haste… near Balakot”. There has been no ...

Spike Lee did not do much to hide his displeasure when Green Book beat his film and six others to this year’s best picture Oscar. According to one report, the BlacKkKlansman director tried to storm out of the Dolby Theatre when the winner was read out by Julia Roberts. “I thought I was courtside at the [Madison Square] Garden and ...

Cardinal George Pell has been found guilty of sexual offences in Australia, making him the highest-ranking Catholic figure to receive such a conviction. Pell abused two choir boys in the rooms of a Melbourne cathedral in 1996, a jury found. He had pleaded not guilty. The verdict was handed down in December, but it could not be reported until now ...

The British Government has provided 50 million pounds to the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust, a charitable foundation for the elimination of blinding Trachoma in four African Countries including Zambia from 2013 to 2019. Speaking at media breakfast briefing on the Trachoma elimination update, Department for International Development (DfID) Zambia Deputy Head, Andrew Ockenden has reiterated  the need to take ...