Health

PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda has said it is unAfrican and abnormal for people to discuss other peoples’ health in public. Speaking on arrival from Livingstone at...

A Non Government Organization has called on politicians to desist from inhuman tendencies of stigmatizing and discrimination fellow ailing politicians. Treatment Advocacy and Literacy Campaign...

THE Zambia Medical Association (ZMA) has urged politicians to desist from politicising personal health matters. ZMA secretary general Robert Zulu said this in response to...

Tributes have been paid to a doctor who lived his life to the full, despite a five- year battle with cancer. The family of...

In medicine, the word "symptoms" is thrown around as if it were something bad. Doctors talk about the "symptoms of disease" and then they...

The researchers calculated death rates in 187 countries using records from government registries, censuses, household surveys and other sources. Adult deaths have largely been neglected by the UN, except for AIDS and tuberculosis programs. The study was paid for by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Death rates were highest for men in Swaziland and for women in Zambia. Researchers also found death rates jumped in eastern Europe, perhaps because health systems fell apart after the collapse of the Soviet Union and widespread smoking. In sub-Saharan Africa, deaths have fallen, possibly due to the rollout of lifesaving AIDS drugs

"Sexual abuse is common, and children are particularly vulnerable to rape by adult inmates in their cells," it said. The report said the food provided by the government was so inadequate that it had become a commodity traded for sex

Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) President Edith Nawakwi has spoken highly of Health Minister Kapembwa Simbao for banning hospitals and clinics from requesting...