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ZAMBIA: Stop fighting AIDS through NGOs - Mwanawasa
8 March 2004 (PlusNews ), Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa has called on donor countries to stop channelling financial resources to tackle HIV/AIDS through NGOs.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36697

ZAMBIA: Joint venture announced for cheap AIDS drugs
6 February 2004 (PlusNews ), Zambia could soon start producing generic versions of patented anti-AIDS drugs in a joint venture with a Cuban manufacturer, the Ministry of Health has said.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36587

ZAMBIA: Concern over drug-resistant HIV strain
28 January 2004 (PlusNews ), Zambian health officials have warned of the emergence of a drug-resistant HIV strain, following a study conducted at the University Teaching Hospital in the capital, Lusaka.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36558

ZAMBIA: MSF says rural poor lack access to AIDS drugs
28 January 2004 (PlusNews ), The international medical NGO, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) on Wednesday began supplying free antiretroviral drug treatment to HIV-positive people in Zambia's northeastern Nchelenge district.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36561

ZAMBIA: Rural poor lack access to AIDS drugs
28 January 2004 (PlusNews ), The international medical NGO, Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) on Thursday began supplying free antiretroviral drug treatment to HIV-positive people in Zambia's north-eastern Nchelenge district.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36559

ZAMBIA: US AIDS millions to be disbursed
27 January 2004 (PlusNews ), Zambia will benefit from a US $66 million grant to tackle HIV/AIDS in 2004, Martin Brennan, the US Ambassador to the country has said.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36550

ZAMBIA: Feature on fear over HIV drug resistance
27 January 2004 (PlusNews ), Zambian health officials have warned of the emergence of strains of the HI virus that are resistant to current antiretroviral (ARV) drug treatment.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36547

ZAMBIA: More free anti-AIDS drugs announced
19 January 2004 (PlusNews ), Zambia has announced plans to provide free antiretroviral drugs to at least 100,000 people living with HIV/AIDS by 2005.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36523

ZAMBIA: Young and productive workers lost to HIV/AIDS
12 December 2003 (PlusNews ), Zambia is losing millions of dollars spent on training programmes as HIV/AIDS continues to deplete its qualified manpower, a top government official has said.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36446

ZAMBIA: Getting girls back into school
11 December 2003 (PlusNews ), Zambian girls are defying traditional barriers, teenage pregnancy and the risk of HIV infection to go back to school to finish their education.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36443

ZAMBIA: Culture of silence over gender violence
1 December 2003 (PlusNews ), About 80 percent of Zambian wives find it acceptable to be beaten by their husbands "as a form of chastisement", according to the latest Zambia Demographic Health Survey.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36389

ZAMBIA: Traditional leaders gear up to tackle AIDS
25 November 2003 (PlusNews ), In the run-up to World AIDS Day on 1 December more than 100 traditional leaders in Zambia have pledged to tackle sexual and cultural practices that hinder efforts to control the spread of HIV/AIDS in rural areas.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36360

ZAMBIA: Researchers manipulating life expectancy figures - CSO
30 October 2003 (PlusNews ), Zambia's Central Statistical Office (CSO) on Thursday said Western donors studying the local impact of HIV/AIDS were manipulating life expectancy figures to suit their own interests.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36279

ZAMBIA: WFP tackles rising number of AIDS orphans
28 October 2003 (PlusNews ), Zambia's high number of HIV/AIDS orphans has forced the World Food Programme (WFP) to scale up its assistance in some of the country's urban centres.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36268

ZAMBIA: WFP targets HIV/AIDS orphans in urban areas
27 October 2003 (PlusNews ), The rise in the number of children orphaned by HIV/AIDS in Zambia has forced the World Food Programme (WFP) to scale up its assistance programmes in some of the country's urban centres.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36265

ZAMBIA: AIDS-related rapes on the rise
3 October 2003 (PlusNews ), Zambians on Friday marched in protest against the rising number of men who were sexually assaulting young girls in the belief that the girls could cure them of HIV/AIDS.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36173

ZAMBIA: Sex work rife among street children
12 September 2003 (PlusNews ), A child protection NGO in Zambia has expressed concern over a report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) on commercial sex work and AIDS among street children.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36024

ZAMBIA: Poverty driving children into sex work
10 September 2003 (PlusNews ), Street children and child workers in Zambia are being driven into commercial sex work, exposing them to the risk of HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), a report has found.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36013

ZAMBIA: AIDS education campaigns fail young men
27 August 2003 (PlusNews ), Young Zambian men are falling through the cracks of the country's HIV/AIDS education efforts, a leading social marketing organisation study has found.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=35961

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