As mpox fears stoke rumours in Zambia, church leaders and brothel workers are fighting stigma

Memories of the AIDS crisis of the 1990s, in which the sick were shunned and whole social groups became scapegoats, are driving a pastor-led mythbusting campaign in Lusaka. 22 January \2025 by Tsitsi Bhobo Pastor Bingu Musonza, a Lusaka church leader, inclines his head to one side, scratching absentmindedly at the pages of his bible, as…