LEAHN is proud to announce Assistant Superintendent Zimba Isaac (Zambia) has joined our team!
LEAHN’s global network of Country Focal Points help to promote harm reduction approaches and provide peer advocacy, education and support for police in over 20 countries.
Assistant Superintendent Zimba Isaac has been involved in HIV/AIDS, Gender, crime prevention and Wellness programs at a full time basis. From 2003 he served as HIV/AIDS and Wellness Provincial Coordinator on the Copperbelt Province and was later in the year 2012 promoted to become the National HIV/AIDS and Wellness Coordinator for the Zambia Police Service. As HIV/AIDS and Wellness Coordinator, has since managed to establish HIV/AIDS and Wellness structures at National, Provincial and District levels for coordination purposes. He has further trained more than 10,000 Police officers, their spouses and the youths; formed HIV/AIDS Support groups across the country for both the People Living with HIV (PLWHIV) and general community support group. He is one of the key persons in crafting the Gender and Sexuality in HIV/AIDS (GESHA) training manual for the Zambia Police and the HIV/AIDS Wellness policy for the Ministry of Home Affairs of the Republic of Zambia.
Before being appointed as HIV/AIDS and Wellness Coordinator, A/Supt. Zimba served as District Coordinator for Victim Support Unit supporting with a core responsibility of serving victims of gender based crimes and the less privileged. Prior to serving as District Victim Support Unit Coordinator, A/Supt. Zimba was managing Crime Prevention Programs for the Police on the Copperbelt province of the Republic of Zambia and managed to establish Community Crime Prevention Units across the Copperbelt province.
A/Supt Zimba has also committed his work to ensuring that HIV has minimal impact on those most at risk and the broader community and manages to interact with inmates, sex workers, and the aged, the disabled, retirees, Youths and the adolescents.
He further coordinates commemorations of International and National HIV/AIDS days across the country in the Zambia Police Service.
