ICAP

Zambia

Zambia

In Zambia, ICAP is partnering with the Ministry of Health (MOH) to provide technical support in HIV prevention, care, and treatment programs. ICAP also supports the MOH in testing innovative service delivery models to achieve the 95-95-95 goals. ICAP’s work in Zambia includes supporting a sustainable surveillance system to improve HIV-related services for key populations and scaling up the screening and management of advanced HIV disease in Zambia’s Western and Southern provinces.

Projects

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 ...

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. ...

ICAP in Zambia

 

Program Start
  • 2005
Key Technical Areas
  • Capacity Building of Health Workforce

  • HIV Care and Treatment

  • Maternal and Child Health / PMTCT

  • Nurse Education

  • Surveillance
Current Funders
  • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  • PEPFAR / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)/Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA)
  • 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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