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ZAMBIA: HIV/AIDS affecting quality of education
2 June 2005 (PlusNews ), HIV/AIDS is having an impact on teacher absenteeism in Zambia, which in turn is affecting the quality of education, according to a new World Bank study.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38657

ZAMBIA: Call for more attention to be paid to HIV/AIDS in prisons
1 June 2005 (PlusNews ), Zambia's government can no longer afford to ignore the growing problem of HIV/AIDS in prisons, a visiting Canadian activist has warned.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38652

ZAMBIA: Community group project funds ARVs
30 May 2005 (PlusNews ), A group of HIV positive people in Solwezi, the administrative capital of Zambia's Northwestern province, is helping its members access antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) with the proceeds from its income-generating activities.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38646

ZAMBIA: Company educates public on HIV/AIDS
30 May 2005 (PlusNews ), A Zambian firm, Asset Holding Company-Municipal Mining Services (AHC-MMS), is educating thousands of local people on how to deal with the impact of HIV/AIDS.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38643

ZAMBIA: Provinces left behind in ARV rollout
26 May 2005 (PlusNews ), In the remote district of Zambezi, near the Zambian border with Angola, getting hold of anti-AIDS drugs is a major struggle for those living with the virus.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38633

ZAMBIA: Strategy for ARV supply essential - AIDS Council
25 May 2005 (PlusNews ), A senior official of Zambia's National AIDS Council (NAC) has urged the government to have a strategy in place to ensure the regular supply of anti-AIDS medication.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38623

ZAMBIA: African first ladies vow to get bolder on HIV/AIDS
24 May 2005 (PlusNews ), The Organisation of African First Ladies Against HIV/AIDS (OAFLA) vowed this week to intensify their fight against the disease on the continent.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38615

ZAMBIA: Capital to host First Ladies' AIDS conference
16 May 2005 (PlusNews ), The Organisation of African First Ladies Against AIDS (OAFLA) will gather in Lusaka, the Zambian capital, this week to discuss better ways of tackling the pandemic.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38580

ZAMBIA: Community project mitigates impact of HIV/AIDS, job losses
16 May 2005 (PlusNews ), A community-based project is mitigating the combined impact of widespread job losses and the HIV/AIDS epidemic on a former mining community in the central town of Kabwe, about 150 km north of the capital, Lusaka.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38583

ZAMBIA: AIDS council announces prevalence reduction plan
11 May 2005 (PlusNews ), Zambia's National AIDS Council (NAC) has announced plans to reduce the country's HIV prevalence rate from 16 percent to 10 percent by the end of the year.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38559

ZAMBIA: Frank AIDS talk urged for youth
11 May 2005 (PlusNews ), A UN official has advised Zambia to aim anti-AIDS messages at its youth, as young people present the best hope for the country in tackling the pandemic.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38562

ZAMBIA: Lack of health facility prevents AIDS drug access
11 May 2005 (PlusNews ), The lack of a hospital in Zambia's Samfya district is hindering access to antiretrovirals and fuelling the spread of HIV/AIDS in the area, officials have charged.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38561

ZAMBIA: Govt not doing enough for OVC, says official report
27 April 2005 (PlusNews ), An official report has found that the Zambian government was not "giving sufficient priority" to orphans and vulnerable children (OVC)and has called for universal access to antiretroviral (ARV) drugs.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38490

ZAMBIA: Poverty adds another dimension to stigma
18 April 2005 (PlusNews ), The pressures of caring for terminally ill family members, while trying to make ends meet in a country staggering under the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and food shortages, has forced many poor Zambian households to make painful decisions.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38465

ZAMBIA: Japan bolsters AIDS/TB support
1 April 2005 (PlusNews ), Japan this week pledged its continued backing of Zambia's efforts against HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB), a local newspaper, The Times of Zambia, reported.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38397

ZAMBIA: Government looks to SA for cheap AIDS drugs
30 March 2005 (PlusNews ), Zambian Health Minister Brian Chituwo this week lamented India's decision to stop manufacturing cheap anti-AIDS drugs, noting that the medicines were his country's "lifeline" against the HI virus.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38385

ZAMBIA: Possible HIV-positive baby explosion predicted
24 March 2005 (PlusNews ), As many as 40,000 Zambian children will be born with HIV each year without proper AIDS interventions, a senior government official has warned.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38363

ZAMBIA: Scale-up sought in AIDS efforts for prisons
23 March 2005 (PlusNews ), The number of AIDS-related deaths in Zambian prisons in 2004 has forced officials to seek ways of strengthening HIV prevention efforts among staff and inmates.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=38356

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