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Lusaka, Zambia – As countries in the region respond to ongoing Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreaks in neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, Zambia continues to take proactive steps ...
News Zambia » Northern » Health: US, Zambia sign $2.49B health financing pact after removing data and specimen-sharing terms
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — The U.S. government and Zambia signed a health financing deal on Thursday after agreeing to remove specimen-sharing and patient-data clauses that had stalled the conclusion of ...
News Zambia » Northern » Health: Zambia: Acid Spill Jeopardizes Residents’ Health
(Johannesburg) – Zambian authorities should address recent reports that polluted water and soil from an acid spill in Zambia’s copper mining region pose a serious health risk, Human Rights Watch said ...
News Zambia » Northern » Health: Zambia launches polio immunisation campaign targeting more than 478, 500 children following an outbreak in the northern part of the country
Zambia has launched a polio immunisation campaign after confirming a case involving a 2 years 8-month old male child in Chienge district in the northern part of the country. The affected child has ...
News Zambia » Northern » Health: On Zambia, health, and public debt: Alternatives to austerity
The majority of Zambia’s debt was written off by 2005 under the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank’s Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative. The country began to accumulate new debt ...