"CIDRZ has played a vital role in providing quality, long-term health care to HIV/AIDS infected adults and children..." -- The Honorable Jeff Sessions, U.S. Senator from Alabama
The CIDRZ HIV prevention and treatment service units support 175 public health facilities in four of the nine provinces of Zambia. Prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) services are offered in 154 clinics and hospitals. The PMTCT program has tested over 330,000 women and provided 60,000 women with maternal ARV prophylaxis. The program has a particular focus on expanding access to more efficacious PMTCT regimens and to HAART, and on early infant diagnosis for HIV-exposed babies.
HIV care and treatment services are offered in 46 sites. Since the program began in 2004, over 103,000 people have received HIV care, with 65,000 starting antiretroviral therapy. Our related service activities include a comprehensive cervical cancer screening program that has screened over 5,000 women in its first year, and an integrated TB/HIV program that offers HIV testing to TB patients and TB screening for all HIV patients.