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Prominent figure publicly tested for HIV

    JOHANNESBURG

    Zambia's Vice president, Nevers Mumba, was earlier this week publicly tested for HIV in an effort to promote voluntary counselling and testing by his countrymen.

    He said he hoped that being tested in public would encourage others to know their HIV status.

    The Zambian News Agency (ZANA) quoted him as saying, "In my family, I have lost two brothers and a sister, whom I loved so dearly, through AIDS ... for the sake of ourselves, for the sake of our children and for the sake of the nation, it is important that we take it."

    Mumba is the second prominent Zambian to be tested for HIV after former president Kenneth Kaunda was tested two years ago.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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