{"id":206675,"date":"2025-09-10T06:14:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T04:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-most-zambians-lack-medical-aid-support-govt-provision-of-universal-health-coverage\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T06:14:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T04:14:40","slug":"zambia-most-zambians-lack-medical-aid-support-govt-provision-of-universal-health-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-most-zambians-lack-medical-aid-support-govt-provision-of-universal-health-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: Most Zambians Lack Medical Aid, Support Govt Provision of Universal Health Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Two-thirds of citizens say they worry &#8220;somewhat&#8221; or &#8220;a lot&#8221; about being unable to obtain or afford medical care when they need it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Only 15% of Zambians say they have medical aid coverage.<\/li>\n<li>Among those who do have medical aid, most (77%) rely on national health insurance. And three-fourths (75%) say they are satisfied with their coverage, including 40% who describe themselves as &#8220;very satisfied.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Among those who don&#8217;t have health insurance, the largest share (39%) say they are not&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509090004.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-thirds of citizens say they worry &#8220;somewhat&#8221; or &#8220;a lot&#8221; about being unable to obtain or afford medical care when they need it. Key findings Only 15% of Zambians say they have medical aid coverage. Among those who do have medical aid, most (77%) rely on national health insurance. And three-fourths (75%) say they are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":206676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,7828,6904,4357,5731,7112,7417,257,12250,254,6096,12369,4709,881,9005],"class_list":["post-206675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aid","tag-coverage","tag-govt","tag-health","tag-lack","tag-medical","tag-news","tag-provision","tag-south-africa-today","tag-support","tag-universal","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambians"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}