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Zambia

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Zambia

With support from the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), is partnering with the Ministry of Health (MOH) to provide technical support in HIV prevention, care, and treatment programming and in testing innovative models of service delivery towards the achievement of UNAIDS’ 95-95-95 goals in Zambia’s Western and Southern provinces. ICAP supports the Government of Zambia in improving HIV-related services and sustainable surveillance systems among key populations. In addition, ICAP is a technical assistance (TA) partner to the MOH on the differentiated service delivery strategic initiative (DSDSI), a Global fund-WHO response to scaling up the screening and management of advanced HIV disease in Zambia. Through the Global fund and CDC support, ICAP also provides TA to the MOH to coordinate the COVID-19  response, ensuring that the gains made in HIV programming are sustained.  

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Projects

HIV Impact Network for Vertical Transmission Elimination (HIVE)

  • Multi-Country,
  • current
The HIV Impact Network for Vertical Transmission Elimination (HIVE) project will partner with ministries of health and other key stakeholders, including the Global Alliance to End AIDS in Children by 2030, to decrease the vertical transmission of HIV in children in Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zambia. ICAP will work with the six countries ...
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Programmatic Support Award (PSA)

  • Multi-Country,
  • current:
  • Brazil
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  • Cameroon
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  • Colombia
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  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
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  • El Salvador
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  • Guatemala
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  • Honduras
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  • Kazakhstan
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  • Malawi
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  • Myanmar
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  • Panama
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  • Peru
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  • Philippines
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  • South Sudan
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  • Uganda
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  • Zambia
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  • Zimbabwe
Building on over 15 years of partnership between ICAP at Columbia University, PEPFAR, and CDC, the Programmatic Support Award provides rapid, flexible technical support to accelerate evidence-based HIV prevention and treatment program implementation and align health systems strengthening activities. ...
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The CQUIN Project for Differentiated Service Delivery

  • Multi-Country,
  • current
CQUIN is a multi-country learning network dedicated to improving differentiated service delivery (DSD) for people living with HIV. Launched in 2017 with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the network convenes health system leaders from countries in sub-Saharan Africa to participate in joint learning and information exchange, with the goal of fostering scale-up ...
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Zambia TA

  • current
Providing technical assistance to two provincial health offices to strengthen services at 6161 health facilities, with a focus on improving case identification and linkage to treatment, TB/HIV management, retention in care and treatment, viral load coverage and suppression, pediatric and adolescent services, integration of quality-improvement methodologies, and data quality assurance. ...
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ICAP in Zambia

Active Years
  • 2005 to present
Key Technical Areas
  • COVID-19
  • HIV
  • Tuberculosis
  • Maternal and Child Health
  • Quality Improvement
  • Human Resources for Health
  • Infection Prevention and Control
  • Laboratory Strengthening
  • Quality Improvement
  • Research
  • Strengthening Health Systems
  • Surveys
Current Funders
  • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  • PEPFAR / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • Global Fund

Country Director

Tafadzwa Dzinamarira, MSc, MPH, PhD

Dr. Dzinamarira is ICAP’s country director in Zambia. He is a public health expert with a solid clinical and epidemiological research background. He has over seven years of experience providing technical support for public health systems and clinical laboratories, strengthening the management of HIV/AIDS programs. Dr. Dzinamarira has expertise in providing technical leadership in developing, developing, planning, and implementing national household-based biomarker surveys. He holds a Master of Science in HIV/AIDS Management, a Master of Public Health (Disease Prevention and Control), and a Doctor of Philosophy in Public Health Medicine. Before this role, Dr. Dzinamarira was the Country Director for ICAP in Zimbabwe. Before that, he was the Regional Laboratory Technical Advisor for the PHIA project, where he successfully supported the implementation of national HIV impact assessment surveys in Namibia, Rwanda, Haiti, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Before joining ICAP, Dr. Dzinamarira worked for the University of Zimbabwe Department of Medicine on a  prospective operation research series aimed at decreasing mortality by initiating antiretroviral therapy in Africa through early detection and prevention of cryptococcal disease in Zimbabwe.

Jobs in Zambia

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