Thursday, October 31, 2024

Health

AIDS fight not for financial gain

A SWEDISH HIV/AIDS ambassador has said combating the pandemic should not attract competition that is based on financial gains. Lennarth Hjeimaker said in an interview...

RB appoints Dr Peter Mwaba as new Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health

PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda has said the country has sufficient stocks of drugs but administrative lapses are responsible for the artificial shortage being experienced in...

Government Committed to Improve the Health Sector, RB

President Rupiah Banda has said the government has never failed to provide adequate resources to the Ministry of Heath. Speaking when he swore in new...

Voluntary counseling and testing crucial in AIDS fight

Many people shy away from VCT for various reasons, one of which is fear of stigma - real or imagined. They would rather treat diseases such as malaria and coughs. Some patients only decide to find out their HIV status when it is too late and their immune system is completely damaged.The most unfortunate part of all this is that even people who are literate, those who work in middle class jobs and some high profile personalities, are also part of the group shunning VCT

Ndola hospital sued for negligence

A NDOLA man has sued Ndola Central Hospital (NCH) and the attorney general for compensation and damages caused by the alleged negligence caused by...

Zambia’s health care system not crippled,

THE Public Health Partnership Forum (PHPF) has disputed allegations by some quarters of society that the health care system in Zambia is crippled. And PHPF...

Many poor nations cut back on their own health spending after they get funding from wealthy donor nations.

For every dollar in health aid received, governments in the developing world on average shifted between 43 cents and $1.14 from their own health budgets into other priorities, says an analysis published Friday in the medical journal The Lancet and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Seattle researchers have quantified what has long been an open secret about international aid: Many poor nations cut back on their own health spending after they get funding from wealthy donor nations.

350 heart patients await treatment abroad

About 350 heart disease patients are awaiting government's approval for them to be flown out of the country for cardiac surgery. Dr. Emmanuel Makasa...