Sat, 28 Jan 2017 12:36:56 +0000 By MUKOSELA KASALWE LOW condom use is a major cause of HIV infections in the country particularly among young people where only 40 percent of girls and 49 percent of boys aged between 15 and 24 years use protection during sexual encounter, says National AIDS Council Acting Director General John Mwale. Mr Mwale said that HIV prevention efforts would continue and observed that although the Zambian population based HIV Impact Assessment report of 2016 had indicated a slight decline of the national HIV prevalence rate from 13.3 percent to 11.6 percent as annual rate of HIV infections was still unacceptably high. He said this in Lusaka yesterday when he received 250 units of condom dispenser’s valued at K 370,000 from the United Nations Population Fund that effective condom programming and promotion was identified as one of the high impact interventions in the 2017 to 2021 National HIV and AIDS […]
