ECO-Bank Zambia has stressed the need for rehabilitation centers in the country to be supported to enable them render efficient and effective help to people with various addictions, depression and stress in light of the high numbers of suicide cases being reported in the country. Speaking when the bank donated K50,000 to Great North Road Academy Rehabilitation Centre ,ECobank Zambia ...

The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) says while Zambia has made strides in realizing gender equality especially in work places, more needs to be done to break cultural and societal beliefs which are barriers to the full realization of gender equity aspirations. MDC vice president for politics, Leonard Hikaumba says women across the country still remain marginalized in relation to ...

Government has described as sad and unfortunate the decision by the opposition Patriotic Front to shun any government organized women and youth Days celebrations. Patriotic Front Acting Secretary general Nickson Chilangwa has said that the central committee has resolved that the party will not take part in Marching or any government planned activities on women and youth days as they ...

Medical for Quality Healthcare in Zambia (MQHZ), Director General, Quince Mwabu says the Ministry of Health must be held accountable over the acute shortages of drugs in almost all public health facilities in the Country. According to Dr. Mwabu, a survey conducted by his organisation in the last two weeks revealed that most essential drugs have run out and patients ...

Independent Churches of Zambia (ICOZ) Board Chairperson, Bishop David Masupa has attributed the increasing road traffic accidents and the rise in suicide cases in the country to spiritual forces hovering over Zambia. Bishop Masupa has told QTV news that there is need for the church to stand in the gap for the country and pray against the spirit of death ...

The Zambia National Men’s Network for Gender and Development (ZNMNGD) has urged government to operationalize the Gender Based Violence (GBV) fund which is meant to assist survivors of GBV and speed up the establishment of the shelters as enshrined in the GBV Act of 2011. In a statement ahead of the commemoration of the 2022 International Women’s Day which falls ...

A Media and Communications has advised the media to stop dramatizing suicide cases being reported in the country. John Lengwe, a Lecturer at the Zambia Institute of Mass Communication tells QTV news that the more the media is reporting about people committing suicide, the more people think it is a solution to address their personal problems. Mr Lengwe has since ...

National Health Insurance Management Authority (NHIMA) Director General James Kapesa says the authority has committed itself to promote equity in discharging it’s mandate of provision of access to sustained and better healthcare to all citizens. Speaking during the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Chandler Academy  of Governance of Singapore aimed at building capacity through training programs, ...

Agriculture Minister Reuben Mtolo Phiri has predicted that the country will record a maize bumper harvest in the 2021/2022 farming season. Mr. Phiri is basing his optimism on the maize which he says looks promising in some parts of the country.  He adds that the measures government had put it place to contain the fall of army worms and provision ...