{"id":215875,"date":"2025-12-06T09:49:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T07:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-world-aids-day-govt-launches-injectable-prep\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T09:49:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T07:49:34","slug":"zambia-world-aids-day-govt-launches-injectable-prep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-world-aids-day-govt-launches-injectable-prep\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: World Aids Day &#8211; Govt Launches Injectable Prep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">THE GOVERNMENT has launched Lenacapavir, a new long acting pre exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) option as it unveiled the Zambia 2025-2030 HIV Prevention Roadmap. This marked a significant milestone in the country&#8217;s fight against HIV\/AIDS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Speaking at the world HIV\/AIDS Commemoration in Lusaka yesterday Health Minister Elijah Muchima emphasised Zambia&#8217;s commitment to ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Dr Muchima highlighted Zambia&#8217;s progress, including a 52 percent decline in new HIV&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512030105.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>THE GOVERNMENT has launched Lenacapavir, a new long acting pre exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) option as it unveiled the Zambia 2025-2030 HIV Prevention Roadmap. This marked a significant milestone in the country&#8217;s fight against HIV\/AIDS. Speaking at the world HIV\/AIDS Commemoration in Lusaka yesterday Health Minister Elijah Muchima emphasised Zambia&#8217;s commitment to ending AIDS as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":215876,"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":[258,256,3538,7165,4357,43996,5957,257,22806,254,5093,4709,881],"class_list":["post-215875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aids","tag-day","tag-govt","tag-injectable","tag-launches","tag-news","tag-prep","tag-south-africa-today","tag-world","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"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\/215875","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=215875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}