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UNICEF Zambia appoints its first Child Ambassadors
LUSAKA, Zambia, 2 January 2009 – Making a strong commitment to the importance of involving children in its work and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF Zambia has appointed its first Child Ambassadors.
Digital Diarist Chinyanta Chimba on HIV prevention in Zambia
LUSAKA, Zambia, 10 September 2008 – Zambia has one of the highest HIV rates in the world. Over 1 million Zambians carry the virus, and one in 10 Zambians between the ages of 15 and 25 are living with HIV.
Helping students in Zambia get to school safely
CHOMBA, Zambia, 13 August 2008 – Students in Zambia face many challenges when it comes to getting an education. Early marriage, access to safe drinking water and lack of proper sanitation facilities are just a few of these obstacles, according to UNICEF Zambia Representative Lotta Sylwander.
Documentary on Zambian women honoured at Jackson Hole Film Festival
NEW YORK, USA, June 25, 2008 – ‘Where the Water Meets the Sky’, the first documentary film from the Campaign for Female Education (Camfed), was honoured with the ‘Best Global Insight’ award last week at the Jackson Hole Film Festival in Wyoming.
Zambia’s national health indicators improve markedly
NEW YORK, USA, 28 May 2008 – Some good news out of Zambia: The country’s newest demographic and health survey shows that the sub-Saharan African nation of 12 million people has reduced its maternal and child mortality and HIV prevalence rates.
A unique expedition fights malaria in six countries along the Zambezi River
ZAMBEZI RIVER, Zambia, 24 April 2008 – Patricia Mobuku’s 10 children are lucky to be alive. Living beside the Zambezi River, the children have always been plagued by malaria.
Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV in rural Zambia
LUAPULA PROVINCE, Zambia, 16 April 2008 – For the past eight months, 34-year-old Regina, a mother in Zambia’s Luapula Province, has been waiting anxiously for the final test results that will decide her daughter’s future. It is possible that her child may have HIV.
Children are the best teachers in Zambia’s drive for better hygiene
CHOMA DISTRICT, Zambia, 19 March 2008 – Miyoba Milton is a big man with a big job – Headmaster at the Government Basic School in Choma. He is responsible for approximately 600 pupils and just over a dozen teachers. His authority is tempered with humility and enthusiasm.
Mobile testing and treatment fight HIV/AIDS in Zambia’s Mpika District
MPIKA, Zambia, 11 March 2008 – One in five pregnant women in Zambia is HIV-positive. It is a heart-stopping figure, but it also explains the increasing rates of paediatric HIV that doctors are facing in hospitals and clinics across the country.
Zambia’s far-reaching measles campaign declared a success
NEW YORK, 31 October 2007 – In a breakthrough for the fight to curb measles in Zambia, more than 2.1 million children under the age of five were recently immunized against the disease during the country’s latest national measles campaign.
Chinyanta’s Digital Diary: A Zambian teen fights for child rights and gender equality
NEW YORK, USA, 6 June 2007 – Chinyanta Chimba has a lot of energy. At her school in Lusaka, Zambia, she’s active in the Student Alliance for Female Education, which advocates for the rights of girls. She also travels around the world, speaking about children’s rights.
UNICEF provides school supplies to 60,000 children in flood-affected areas of Zambia
LUSAKA, Zambia, 8 May 2007 – To help respond to humanitarian needs in flood-affected areas of Zambia, UNICEF has turned over 640 ‘School-in-a-Box’ kits to the country’s Ministry of Education. The kits will provide educational supplies to more than 60,000 children and 1,000 teachers in six provinces.
UNICEF presents awards to youth radio producers in Mexico and Zambia
NEW YORK, USA, 11 April 2007 – UNICEF has presented prizes to the first-place winners in a youth media competition organized in cooperation with OneWorld Radio.
First Lady of Zambia: Clean water gets girls into school
NEW YORK, 7 February 2005 - The First Lady of Zambia, Maureen Mwanawasa, has founded a non-governmental organization in order to help improve conditions for children and women in her home country.
