COVID-19 News

In the ongoing global fight against COVID-19, vaccination is considered the most effective weapon. Yet, there are shocking reports emerging of individuals and groups taking advantage of the pandemic to make quick money by selling fake vaccination cards to those...

BACKGROUNDCorruption and lack of equitable accessduring the COVID-19 pandemicPandemics and emergencies expose weaknessesand gaps in health systems. If not addressed, theseweaknesses and gaps create risks and opportunitiesfor corruption which can undermine the response anddeprive people of health care or even...

SalutationsTransparency International Zambia (TI-Z) welcomes all of you to this Press Briefing, whichrepresents our commemoration of the African Union (AU) Anti-Corruption Day, which falls todaythe 11th of July 2022. The AU Anti-Corruption Day is part of the many interventions and...

New COVID-19 variant spreads to more than 40 countries, sending alarms and triggering travel curbs. Zambia has detected its first cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant, as the “highly transmissible” new variant spread to more than 40 countries since it...

BIOMEDICAL Union of Zambia president Daniel Mwimbe says there is no need for mandatory COVID-19 vaccination, arguing that people just need to be encouraged rather than forced. Pharmaceutical expert Jerome Kanyika recently called on government to put in place policies...