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There were over 2500 health facilities providing eMTCT in 2021

488,113 voluntary medical male circumcisions conducted in 2021

85%of women & 75%of men have ever tested for HIV.

6.6% of young adults aged 15-24 years have HIV

HIV prevalence is highest in Copperbelt Province (15.4%)

11.1% of Zambian adults aged 15 to 49 years have HIV.

Viral Load Suppression is highest in Eastern Province (67.8%)

Posted by Nyewani on November 28, 2019

The Management and Staff of the National HIV/AIDS/STI/TB Council would like to congratulate our Director General Dr.Victor Mukonka who was awarded Zambia College of Medicine and Surgery Fellow,at the Fellows convention held at Hotel Intercontinental on Friday 22nd November 2019.

Posted by Justin on October 11, 2018

The National HIV/AIDS/STI/TB Council (NAC) and the Local Government Service Commission (LGSC) have led the way in the Government’s decentralization process by successfully integrating District AIDS Coordination Advisors (DACAs) into local authorities on a permanent and pensionable basis, doing away with the programme mode of employment under NAC.

The LGSC assisted by NAC has recruited 116 DACAs on behalf of all the existing districts throughout the country to enable local authorities effectively deal with the epidemic as a developmental challenge.

Posted by Justin on October 11, 2018

The National HIV/AIDS/STI/TB Council (NAC) has received commendations from Eastern Province media personnel after a two day orientation on the subject of key populations in the HIV response.

The journalists from all the 9 old districts of Eastern Province acknowledged their limited knowledge on key populations compounded by negative societal beliefs especially around transgender, gay and other men who have sex with men.

Posted by Justin on October 11, 2018

The second in the series of the countrywide media trainings on reporting key populations was held in Livingstone yesterday the 30^th of August 2018 with National AIDS Council Acting Director General Mr. Fortune Chibamba calling upon journalists to help prevent new HIV infections through accurate coverage of the epidemic.

Addressing journalists from all the districts of Southern Province at Cross Roads Lodge, Mr Chibamba said public education and awareness in the media were potential social vaccines against HIV infections.

Posted by Justin on October 11, 2018

The National HIV/AIDS/STI/TB Council ()NAC) has today the 23^rd of August 2018 kicked off media trainings on Key Populations with Lusaka based journalists pioneering the countrywide programme.

NAC Acting Director General Mr. Fortune Chibamba who opened the two-day training urged journalists to initiate dialogue around the subject of HIV by constantly including the subject on their respective editorial agenda in order to contribute to the national and global goal of ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.

Posted by Justin on October 11, 2018

Minister of Health Dr Chitalu Chilufya has announced that the National HIV/AIDS/STI/TB Council (NAC) will soon be streamlined at both board and technical levels for improved coordination of civil society and other players and to increase its resource mobilization capacity.

Dr Chilufya disclosed this in Lusaka on Tuesday the 14^th of August 2018 during the commemoration of the second National HIV Testing, Counselling and Treatment (HTCT) Day under theme; ‘My Family, My Nation, My Responsibility.’

Posted by Justin on March 27, 2018

According to the Zambia Population Based HIV Impact Assessment (ZAMPHIA) 2015-2016 report, 11.6 Zambians aged between 15-59 years are infected with HIV with around 46, 000 people becoming infected annually.

To avert new HIV infections and to improve care for those living with the virus, the Ministry of Health has placed greater emphasis on scaling-up HIV combination prevention services that enable individuals to maintain their HIV negative status as well as improve access to quality treatment and care services particularly through HIV Testing, Counselling and Treatment (HTCT)

Posted by Justin on March 27, 2018

Visiting UNAIDS Executive Director Mitchel Sidibe has praised Zambia for being the first country in Africa to launch the integrated health situation room which is a computer software based innovation depicting the status of the whole health system in real time. Kenya launched a stand-alone HIV and AIDS situation room in 2015.

Posted by Justin on February 13, 2018

Breeze FM Radio station in Chipata, broadcasts to nearly all of Eastern Province, extends its coverage to Serenje in Central Province and crosses the national frontiers into Malawi and Mozambique. The Radio station’s wide reach makes it one of the most attractive forms of mass media to reach any specific target audience within and slightly outside the province.

Nyimba and Vubwi are the only districts in Eastern Province where the radio station’s signal is weak.

Posted by Justin on January 25, 2018

What was conceived as an idea to respond to concerns of rising cases of sexually transmitted infections and other health complications being presented late by young people in clinics in Mongu District of Western Province, has today evolved into a vibrant organization championing a full package of adolescent and young people’s health and socio economic rights.

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