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        "text": "Women should avoid going to bars alone. Furthermore, men should avoid purchasing drinks for Zambian women they meet casually in bars; this is an invitation to spend the night."
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        "text": "There is a 10PM curfew throughout most of the country. Avoid being found on the street after 10PM or risk being arrested."
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        "text": "As the Kwacha has been declining, it often takes fistfuls of cash to purchase items. Be careful about flashing money."
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        "text": "While it's possible to get a good exchange rate from an individual money-changer on the street (although you really should use banks if you can), you should avoid changing money with groups of men."
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        "text": "The HIV infection rate among older teenagers and adults was estimated to be 11.6% in 2017 – and even higher among younger women. Do not have unprotected sex."
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        "text": "Zambia is a highly malarial country."
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        "text": "In practice, yellow fever is not a problem in Zambia anymore, except perhaps in the extreme west along the Congolese borders."
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