African Achievers International is pleased to announce the 2014 AfIA
Awards Winners. Each year, African Achievers International honours NGOs,
socially conscious businesses and individuals for exemplary work in areas
such as work benefiting the community, community development and
collaborations, scholarship, and service.
The award-winning organisations
and individuals inspire and challenge others, contribute to the profession’s
knowledge base, and extend their work beyond the borders of community
development into practice and the public sector.
Dr Christine Kaseba-Sata was appointed WHO’s Goodwill Ambassador
against Gender-based Violence from October 2012 to October 2014.
She is
one of the most recognized Zambian specialists in obstetrics and
gynaecology and she has practiced as a physician
at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka for more than 25 years, and
lectured for the past 15 years at the University of Zambia School of
Medicine – the country’s only medical school.
Dr Kaseba-Sata has also
acted as chairperson of the Forum of African First Ladies against cervical
and breast cancer. She has broad experience in the area of sexual and
reproductive health, from sexually transmitted infections including HIV/
AIDS, to family planning, comprehensive abortion care, malaria in
pregnancy, emergency obstetrics and newborn care.
She is a committed
advocate to improving maternal and newborn health and addressing issues
around gender-based violence. Homosexuality is a crime in Zambia. The
country’s tabloids have recently taken to outing suspected gay men, who
then face harassment in their neighborhoods.
In Zambia, even speaking of
being gay can be dangerous. Recently an extraordinary thing happened; an
event so unexpected LGBT activists all over Africa are calling it “a
miracle.” At a reception hosted by UNAIDS in Lasaka, Zambia’s capitol,
Dr. Christine Kaseba-Sata called for an end to discrimination against
sexual minorities.
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