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By Asunta Simoloka Known as amasuku in Zambia and botanically referred to as uapaca kirkiana, wild loquats demonstrate the wonders of wild fruits. This nutritious fruit also go by ‘sugar…
FIRST Lady Dr Christine Kaseba says it is unfortunate that the 17th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) is being held during the time when the world…
VICE-PRESIDENT Guy Scott has said that Government will employ 800 graduate nurses to replace the dismissed health practitioners. Dr Scott maintained in Parliament that Government would not reinstate the fired…
Today, Novartis senior executives gather in Basel, Switzerland for the first-ever Novartis Africa Day to review the company’s innovative work in Africa, including growing commercial activity, novel approaches to expand…
Economic volatility has increased pressure on Zambian workers with 78% reporting that they are seeing more stress-related illness since the downturn, finds the latest survey from Regus, the global workplace…
President Michael Sata has ordered the suspension of over 100 nurses following a weeklong strike action that started off at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka before spreading to other…
Barrick Lumwana Mine General Manager, Bill Macnevin, says his company will remain committed and resolute to the fight against HIV/AIDS because it has an impact on productivity. Mr Macnevin says…
By Obrie Makai We keep preaching; play safe!,Know your status,go for Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT)!, use ABC!, condomize (use condoms), Go for circumcision!, say No to sex!, stand against…
Minister of Health Dr. Joseph Kasonde has maintained that all the Nurses on strike that did not write exculpatory letters by 2pm on Friday must consider themselves fired. And Speaker…
Russian poet Natalya Gorbanevskaya, one of the former Soviet Union’s foremost civil rights activists, has died in Paris at the age of 77, friends in Moscow told AFP. Gorbanevskaya, who…