Top news items in major Zambian media outlets

LUSAKA, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- The following are news highlights in Zambia's major media outlets on Monday.

--Zamia will this week join other countries for the Global Food Forum in Germany to discuss sustainable ways of ending poverty.

Minister of Agriculture Dora Siliya is expected to address the forum to share the country's agriculture experience. (Zambia Daily Mail)

--The fall army worm outbreak has so far affected about 70,000 hectares of fields in Zambia, a Zambian research boy has said.

Zambia Agriculture Research Institute (ZARI) chief agriculture research officer Mweshi Mukanga said the current army worms was different from the one that attacked the country five years ago and that researchers were studying how to combat it. (Times of Zambia)

--A new study has revealed that HIV mortality in Zambia was substantially under-reported in routine provincial program data as much as three to nine-fold among HIV-infected individuals.

The study, conducted by a team of researchers from the Center for Infectious Research in Zambia (CIRDRZ), pursues to uncover the true mortality rates on HIV treatment to provide a model for improved national and regional surveillance approaches and eventually ore effective HIV treatment strategies. (Daily Nation)

--The United Kingdom has warned its citizens that they need to follow the advice of the National Travel Health Network and Center to reduce chances of cholera infection while in Zambia.

In an alert on its website, the United Kingdom government warned its citizens to extra care while in Zambia following an outbreak of cholera, with Lusaka, the country's capital, the hardest hit. (The Mast) Enditem