Take back the night

To every succesful man, there is a determined woman to beat him up when he comes late. The issue of gender in many campaigns has gained ground at the Lusaka City Council. A deliberate policy has been engendered in every policy document to encourage women participation. For instance, for every ten pieces of land identified, 4 have to be allocated to women and the rest competed for by all (both men and women). In combating arguably one of Africa's largest killer Malaria, this Council deliberately placed women to be at the focal point of this fight. Incorporating gender into a malaria control strategy. Gender norms and values that influence the division of labor, leisure patterns and sleeping arrangements lead to different patterns of exposure to mosquitoes. Public campaigns and programmes such as Indoor and residual spraying programme conducted from October 2014 to February 2015 to provision of mosquito nets to pregnant mothers in the community. Both men and women were selected for the operation 6 community based organisations awarded contracts to collect and dispose of waste. Pictures of women ’s week in March, 2015, provided cleaning materials and groceries to the Kamwala remand prison and also to Cheshire Homes in Kabulonga (food) to support their daily nutritional supplements. As a Counci, this sums up our efforts in curbing Malaria. Spraying is high on our agenda and we target to completely arrest the malaria scourge by increasing awareness in areas where we seemingly did not get maximum desired results.