LEAHN’s Zambia Country Focal Point, Zimba Isaac, recently met with Zambia Police Provincial HIV/AIDS Co-ordinators to discuss strategies relating to the health and wellbeing of the workforce.
As the HIV/AIDS and Wellness Co-ordinator, Zimba Isaac’s role is to support provincial police officers to meet the following goals:
-reduce morbidity and mortality rates in the Zambia Police Force by December, 2016,
-carrying out 2000 male circumcisions amongst police officers by December, 2016,
-carrying out 2000 HIV tests amongst police officers by December, 2016,
-reaching out to 2000 police officers with HIV prevention messages amongst police officers by December, 2016.
Read more about LEAHN CFP, Zimba Isaac, below:
Contact Zimba here by email: chikwandaisaac@yahoo.com
Assistant Superintendent Zimba Isaac has been involved in HIV/AIDS, Gender, crime prevention and Wellness programs at a full time basis. From 2003 he served as HIV/AIDS and Wellness Provincial Coordinator on the Copperbelt Province and was later in the year 2012 promoted to become the National HIV/AIDS and Wellness Coordinator for the Zambia Police Service. As HIV/AIDS and Wellness Coordinator, has since managed to establish HIV/AIDS and Wellness structures at National, Provincial and District levels for coordination purposes. He has further trained more than 10,000 Police officers, their spouses and the youths; formed HIV/AIDS Support groups across the country for both the People Living with HIV (PLWHIV) and general community support group. He is one of the key persons in crafting the Gender and Sexuality in HIV/AIDS (GESHA) training manual for the Zambia Police and the HIV/AIDS Wellness policy for the Ministry of Home Affairs of the Republic of Zambia.
Before being appointed as HIV/AIDS and Wellness Coordinator, A/Supt. Zimba served as District Coordinator for Victim Support Unit supporting with a core responsibility of serving victims of gender based crimes and the less privileged. Prior to serving as District Victim Support Unit Coordinator, A/Supt. Zimba was managing Crime Prevention Programs for the Police on the Copperbelt province of the Republic of Zambia and managed to establish Community Crime Prevention Units across the Copperbelt province.
A/Supt Zimba has also committed his work to ensuring that HIV has minimal impact on those most at risk and the broader community and manages to interact with inmates, sex workers, and the aged, the disabled, retirees, Youths and the adolescents.
He further coordinates commemorations of International and National HIV/AIDS days across the country in the Zambia Police Service.