David Chipanta

Paris reminds me of Chilenje.

Five takeaways on cash transfers and child poverty elgaronline.com/edcollchap/boo…

👇 if you have access to BBC, don’t miss this! Sharing 🇿🇲 wonders with audiences in 🇬🇧 and across the globe @BBCWorld @BBCNews @SikumbaRodney @agency_zam24112 @ZambiaHigh @UKinZambia

🚨 New research alert! Here’s the big idea: Will giving students the tools to master foundational math and reading skills serve as a building block for broader learning? Researchers set out to answer this question by examining Zambia’s national adaptation of the Teaching at the Right Level methodology: the “Catch Up” program. The highlights: • Students made meaningful progress in foundational math and reading skills, equivalent to roughly 2-3 additional months of schooling. • In the short term, almost all of the math gains came from the very subskills the program targets, but students didn't do any better on even closely related tasks. • A separate analysis of national exam results tells a different story: by Grade 7, students exposed to Catch Up scored higher on exams testing skills far beyond what the program directly teaches. ➡️ This shows that broader learning gains from foundational instruction may not appear immediately, but can emerge years later. More key lessons for educators and policymakers: bit.ly/4bPuW0V

I was still in primary school when my granny allowed me to sell the doormats she made from empty maize meal bags and off cut pieces of fabric around the neighborhood. She also taught me how to make roasted peanuts, ice blocks and popcorn to sell on our street, at the stadium across the road from our house and sometimes at the market. She knew she was teaching me a survival skill but I don't think we both knew she was training me and setting me up with a hustle that would change my life and introduce me to the world. Thank you gogo, your boy is good.

I'm truly humbled to have made it to the finals 🙏 We need contextual solutions to the challenges facing us. Congratulations to fellow finalists & everyone who submitted. #Multilateralism #Development #YouthEmployment #Commonwealth #Lesotho #EndInequalities #LsTwitter

On St Patrick Irish Day 🇮🇪 ☘️I acknowledge the life saving work of the legendary Fr. Michael T. Kelly SJ founder of Kara Counselling and Hope House Centres of Lusaka, Zambia. ⁦@rbaggaley⁩ #WinstoneZulu #ClementMfuzi CathrineNyirenda #SimonMulenga #All_PALS

Our Autumn 2026 Graduation Season continues. Today, UJ honours Her Excellency Monica Geingos, lawyer, entrepreneur and globally recognised advocate for health equity. Through initiatives like the One Economy Foundation and the #BeFree Movement, she has championed youth empowerment, HIV awareness and social justice across Africa. #UJHonoursGeingos #UJGraduation2026 #UJGrads2026 #UJAllTheWay @FirstLadyNam3

⁦@UNAIDSMalawi⁩ Rep ⁦@ChipantaD⁩ thanked the US Government ⁦@USEmbassyLLW⁩ for generous investments in saving lives, preventing HIV during a MANASO CSO meeting on Lenecapivir long acting injection PrEP. ⁦@UNMalawi⁩ ⁦@anneshongwe⁩ ⁦@NACMalawi⁩

What an amazing end to the week! I bring you Moses Sakala and Angela Nyirenda. And the Ngoni crowd, surrounded by their people and their culture. Very special.

Exciting results of SEARCH Study presented at #CROI2026 suggests that incorporating PrEP to ART treatment leads to a 70% ⬇️ in HIV incidence at a population level.

4/8 Country realities took center stage. #Zimbabwe. #Malawi. #Zambia. National AIDS Council leadership & Director General-level representation grounded the debate in operational truth. #CountryOwnership

2/8 #Mali. #GuineaBissau. #Zimbabwe. #Malawi. #Uganda. #SouthAfrica. #Tunisia. #Zambia. One shared priority: Sustainable, African-driven HIV responses. #HIVResponse #AfricanLeadership

Our article Impact of the 2013 WHO guidelines for screening of cervical pre-cancer on women’s screening by HIV-status is out. No evidence the guidelines impacted screening. Girls with HIV aged 15-24 screened less. Start screening them at age 15 years. rb.gy/gi6xew

Honoured to moderate a high-level Finance–Health Leadership panel on Africa’s Health Security & Sovereignty, co-hosted by the African Development Bank Group, Africa CDC & AUDA-NEPAD. Key takeaways from the discussion: 🔹 Health security cannot be outsourced 🔹 Domestic financing is the foundation 🔹 National ownership is non-negotiable #AHSS #AfricaHealth #HealthFinancing #UHC @AfDB_Group @AfDBPresident @Dr_JeanKaseya @AfricaCDC @nardosbthomas @NEPAD_Agency

the evidence suggests that most countries examined did not respond to the 2025 aid shock with broader tax reform or systematic expenditure prioritization…. cgdev.org/blog/aid-cuts-…

"...we suggest 10 ways the ministry of finance, as the custodian of a country’s public financial management system, can collaborate with the ministry of health to improve the quality of health spending..." econstor.eu/bitstream/1041…

News Diggers Epaper Edition 219 Saturday January 10th, 2026 diggers.news/e-paper/2026/0…

I’m a miracle; grade 11 drop out, teenage mother, HIV positive at 21, shares Kasune diggers.news/lifestyle/2026…