Category: Zambia

The Moto Moto Museum is located in Mbala and was officially opened in 1974. The museum is housed on a former carpentry and bricklaying workshop, donated by the Diocese of Mbala in 1972. The name “Moto Moto ” was derived from Bishop Joseph Dupont who smoked a pipe and called…

View More Zambia Philately: Moto Moto Museum

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View More Zambia Philately: 1973 Birth of 2nd Republic – 4n U.N.I.P. Flag

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View More Zambia Philately: 1973 Birth of 2nd Republic – 10n Zambia Army Band

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View More Zambia Philately: 1973 Birth of 2nd Republic – 15n Celebrations

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View More Zambia Philately: 1973 Birth of 2nd Republic – 25n Presidential Parliamentary Chair

The United Progressive Party (UPP) was established by former Vice-President Simon Kapwepwe in August 1971. Government police arrested some 100 supporters of the UPP on September 20-22, 1971. President Kaunda banned the UPP on February 4, 1972. Some 125 members of the UPP, including Simon Kapwepwe, were arrested by government…

View More Zambia Philately: 1973 Birth of 2nd Republic

One of the most spectacularly successful large-scale programme undertaken by WHO was the attempt to achieve worldwide eradication of smallpox. By 1973, only seven countries are were affected by the disease, compared with 30 in 1967. However, the disease was endemic in only one country in Africa. Details Designer: Gabriel Ellison…

View More Zambia Philately: 1973 25th Anniversary of the World Health Organisation – 10n Immunization – Eradication of Smallpox

Preventive medicine aims to prevent sickness before it happens. The ideology behind preventive medicine focuses on protecting, promoting, and maintaining health and well-being. It also aims to avert disease, disability, and death on an individual basis, as well as on a large scale in communities and populations. During the 1950s,…

View More Zambia Philately: 1973 25th Anniversary of the World Health Organisation – 9n Under Five’s Clincs

WHO recognised four nutritional deficiency diseases that, by their extent and social significance, caused the most serious public health problems in the developing countries. There were protein, calorie malnutrition, xerophthalmia, nutritional anaemias, and endemic goitre. In most WHO-assisted nutrition projects, the nutrition activities were carried out within the framework of…

View More Zambia Philately: 1973 25th Anniversary of the World Health Organisation – 15n Health Begins at Home

The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. The WHO was established on 7 April 1948. The first meeting of the World Health Assembly (WHA), the agency’s governing body, took place on 24 July of that year. Its work began…

View More Zambia Philately: 1973 25th Anniversary of the World Health Organisation