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In Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, the Chelstone Clinic provides vital programmes to treat HIV-positive pregnant women and to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT). HIV-positive infants diagnosed and treated within the first 12 weeks of life are 75% less likely to die. However, many infants do not receive PMTCT services because their caretakers lack access to properly equipped facilities or fear the stigma associated with HIV. For PMTCT measures to be effective, infants must adhere to a long-term, structured course of tests and services, difficult for many caretakers. This essay tells the story of Tasila Lungu and her son, Felix, through the first 18 months of his life until his HIV status is confirmed.

Felix is born to Tasila Lungu, 22, at the Chelstone Clinic in April 2009. Felix was exposed to HIV in utero. Ms. Lungu discovered she was HIV-positive during an antenatal check-up. Remembering her initial emotional response Ms. Lungu said: “So my child is going to be HIV-positive. I was even thinking to abort. I asked how the baby was going to live? That’s when I…. I even took the [traditional] medicine to drink to abort my son. And even today, when I’m looking at him, I’m not even free. I’m feeling that he knows that mommy was want

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Zambia’s former first lady, daughter arrested on corruption charges

LUSAKA, Zambia

Zambia’s former first lady Esther Lungu and her daughter Chiyeso Lungu were arrested Thursday on multiple charges, including possession of properties suspected to be proceeds of crime.

The two, along with a business associate, Charles Phiri, were arrested by the country’s Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) after the authorities said they failed to provide a reasonable explanation on how she acquired the properties in question.

The commission accused the former first lady of owning 15 duplex flats, reportedly valued at 41 million Kwacha ($1.5 million), in the Zambian capital of Lusaka.

It claimed that the properties were suspected to be proceeds of crime and a statement by the commission’s spokesman Allan Tamba said: “The suspect has failed to give a reasonable explanation of how she acquired” the assets.

Tamba added that Chiyeso Lungu and Phiri owned in Lusaka a three-story lodge and three more flats, estimated at over 17.4 million Kwacha ($552,721). Chiyeso Lungu’s sister Tasila Lungu, is also facing separate but related charges and was ordered to report at the DEC on June 3, 2024.

Former President Edgar Lungu confirmed that his wife and daughter alo

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