Health

THE Public Health Partnership Forum (PHPF) has called on Government to ban the sale of skin-bleaching creams in the country, arguing that indiscriminate use...

Patriotic Front (PF) leader Michael Sata has said there is need to take HIV/AIDS as a national disaster if the disease is...

HIV-positive Bupe Mwamba, 22, lies next to her newborn baby girl at the rural clinic she just gave birth in and wonders if her baby is HIV-positive too

Cholera killed at least 12 people in Zambia's capital Lusaka after floods caused by torrential rains contaminated drinking water, a health ministry official said...

A team of Health specialists from the Mutima Project based in Christchurch, New Zealand will in September 2010 be in Zambia for three weeks...

A critical shortage of water has hit Mambilima Special School in Mwense District, causing authorities to start hiring women from the village to fetch...

HEALTH authorities at Chipata Clinic in Lusaka have told Health Minister Kapembwa that they have not allowed any mother to carry a placenta after delivering...

The Medical Retention Scheme may not be adequate to curb the exodus of health personnel. The provision for new vehicles, for example, is really not an incentive to individuals who are keen on securing jobs in developed countries where their services would fetch adequate salaries and allowances which would make it possible for them to buy vehicles on their own. And formal education (from Grade 1 through Grade 12) in such countries is generally free! The Scheme, however, is likely to give incentive to those who wish to emigrate to other developing countries in search of higher incomes, a better standard of living and/or a less-hostile environment, among a host of other reasons.