Zambia Makes Significant Improvement in Combating HIV

A number of countries across the globe have made drastic improvements in reducing HIV cases. One among them is Zambia, which has reduced the cases to 58%. Moreover, they have been able to increase the HIV treatment by 80%.

Chibaula Silwamba, First Secretary for Press and Public Relations for Zambia at the United Nations, said results are encouraging. "This year, Zambia has put a massive injection of funds into its health budget, increasing it by 45 per cent", said UNAIDS, which is a combined United Nations Programme on HIV.

Other places where massive decline has been witnessed are Lesotho, Mali, Eritrea, Burkina Faso, Guniea, Benin and Malawi. The UNAIDS said they have noticed a massive decline from 2001 to 2011. It has been found that a massive 73% decline in Malawi has been noticed. To talk about places then 71% decline was witnessed in Botswana, 68% reduction in HIV cases was seen in Namibia and 58% in Zambia.

Not only has a massive decline been witnessed in HIV cases, the UNIADS report said reduction in Tuberculosis cases has also been witnessed. Some of the countries that have shown a major decline are India, Zambia, Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa.


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