Zambian Govt Commits to Ending Cholera By 2025

The Zambian government has committed itself to ending cholera by the year 2025 through the validation of the national multi-sectoral cholera elimination plan for the period 2019 to 2025. Four cabinet ministers signed a pledge of commitment to end cholera in the country at the closing ceremony of a workshop which was organized by the Ministry of Health to finalise and validate the cholera elimination plan. The multi-sectoral cholera elimination plan will be used to mobilise resources and guide the strategies and activities to be implemented in the country in order to eliminate cholera.

Speaking at the ceremony, the Minister of Health, Dr. Chitalu Chilufya said that the elimination plan would target the cholera hotspots in the country. He said that although the global target to eliminate cholera was 2030, Zambia was set to eliminate cholera 5 years earlier, in 2025. To this effect, four cabinet ministers signed a commitment to end cholera in Zambia. The minister of health, Dr. Chitalu Chilufya, minister in the office of the vice president, Sylvia Chalikosa, minister of local government, Vincent Mwale and minister of water development, sanitation and environmental protection, Dennis Wanchinga signed on behalf of their ministries. The commitment to end cholera by these ministries represents government's focus on leading a multi-sectoral approach to the fight against the disease.

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