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Kalinda – Angela Kafwanka

Kalinda is a short film is directed by Angela Kafwanka. The spirits have chosen the new born to be the successor of the village medicine man who also is his father’s uncle. Uncle Nkandu had given the name to the new born which is foreign to the parents and they demand to know the meaning. [...]

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Director of Center for Global Health visits Zambia

Dr. Kevin De Cock, Director of the Center for Global Health at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is visiting CDC’s Zambia office and meeting with CDC’s partners in Zambia from October 31 through November 2, 2011. As a partner with the Government of the Republic of Zambia in its fight against [...]

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Mobile Hospitals—A Gigantic Policy Blunder!

A news article which has appeared in the Zambian Watchdog under the title “Each Mobile Hospital to Gobble K450m per Trip on Allowances,” if its content is authentic, is one of the many good reasons why President Rupiah Banda’s decision to buy the controversial mobile hospitals will be recorded in our beloved country’s history as [...]

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Is AIDS & HIV An Apartheid Upgrade?

On Tuesday September 18th, 2007. The Toronto community radio presenters: Kuthula Matshazi and Shadya Yasin had founder of AfriDAD (a non governmental organisation dealing in development, aid and debt in Africa) Hannilie Zulu, on air. Hannilie Zulu, who has argued that HIV & AIDS do not exist, has argued that the HIV testing kits, the [...]

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Bill, Melinda and Zambia

We’d like to say thank you to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for selecting Zambia as one of the three countries to benefit from $44.7 million toward the fight against TB and HIV/ AIDS. Whoever played a part in this has definitely brought further attention to the pandemic. Furthermore, support and attention in any form [...]

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HIV/AIDS Stigma and Discrimination

Individuals should not have to suffer all losses due to illness! Men, women and children are suffering with HIV/AIDS. We need to assure that these people are cared for, not discriminated against! We must provide funds for proper nutrition, housing and health care for these individuals to aid and contribute to their well-being. We need [...]

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