By MUSONDA MANGILASHI – ACCESS to quality education remains a pipe dream for many vulnerable children and young people of school going age in Zambia. Suffice to mention that under privileged children have inadequate access...

By JESSIE NGOMA -SIMENGWA – The World Health Organisation (WHO) has observed that cancer is one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide. Despite the attention and intervention in early diagnosis, treatment and prevention which...

By JESSIE NGOMA-SIMENGWA – Reports with statistics showing cases of women and girls as victims of Gender Based violence (GBV) have escalated in the recent past, taking all forms of violence and discrimination. The last...

By DELPHINE ZULU – THE most common treatment form of chronic illnesses is the use of medication. Medicine represents the largest component of health expenditure, including surgery, physical therapy, radio and psychology. The prevention and...

           A community-led response will not only get our HIV response back on track but also help Africa defeat COVID-19. When COVID-19 first hit Africa’s shores, there were real concerns that an...

It is a beautiful July night in Kabwe, one of Zambia’s average towns, but Beauty Muwela can hardly sleep. She has spent the entire day packing her bags to make sure that she does not...

November, also known as Movember, is prostate cancer awareness month. Prostate cancer affects men of all races and was previously reported to be a disease of older men. However, in Zambia we are increasingly seeing...

By BENNET SIMBEYE – “OUR people have been here for a long time and to be honest with you, I can understand why they have stayed for so long and many more keep coming. This...

By CHRISTINE MWAABA There is an old furrow in Kabwe, a remnant of the town’s oldest pieces of mining infrastructure, which was once used to ferry toxic and lead runoff from the closed local mining pits....

By CHRISTINE MWAABA KABWE town, long known for being endowed with zinc and lead deposits, has had a perennial lead poisoning problem. This arises from the long-term pollution caused by mining zinc and lead.It is...