This week, I received the following article from my colleague Julius Phiri in Chipata. The article is actually from the International AIDS Alliance and Julius made an effort to find it and forward to me:...

By POTIPHER TEMBO – THE word school has many meanings. But a school, in this theme of the story, is a place where children go to acquire lessons. This place could start from a pre-school...

By JONATHAN MUKUKA – AS news of the Malaysian aeroplane that went missing on March 8, with more than more 200 people on board was making headlines, just before 17:00 hours on March 28, another...

By MWANGALA LISELI- THOUGH they are found everywhere now, shebeens were and are still regarded as illegal drinking places that are only found in certain townships. Facts indicate that the word shebeen is derived from...

By MIRIAM ZIMBA- THE Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ) says an average of 12 per cent of HIV positive adults enrolling into anti-retro viral therapy (ART) were screened for TB, despite the...

By MIRIAM ZIMBA- OVER-CROWDING in the country’s 89 facilities provides an ideal environment for the spread of airborne diseases such as tuberculosis (TB). The health of the country’s inmates, which is estimated at about 17,000,...

By INNOCENT DAKA- TO DATE, the Kalumbila area of Chief Musele in Solwezi has been a community of few economic opportunities. Its residents were mainly small-scale farmers subsisting on slash and burn shifting cultivation producing...

THE continued defilement cases in the country are a worry and of great concern. Admittedly, even more saddening is the defilement of girls by the people who are supposed to protect them such as fathers...

By MIRIAM ZIMBA- THE last few months leading to February 2014 saw Alice Namuunda of Chieftainess Chiawa’s area make frequent visits to and from Mtendere Mission Hospital in Chirundu. All this was done with the...

By NAKUBIANA SHABONGO and SARAH TEMBO- FIFITY years after Zambia’s independence, many women still lose their lives during child delivery due to various factors. Lack of information on family planning is one of the factors...