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November 8, 2024

CIDRZ Commends Lay Health Workers for their Contribution to the Fight Against HIV

The Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ), in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and with support from the Centers for Disease Control and […]
November 6, 2024

CIDRZ Emphasizes the Importance of Educating Women on Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Options

The Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ) has emphasised the importance of providing women with accurate information about cervical cancer prevention, testing, and treatment […]
November 5, 2024

CIDRZ Strengthens Cervical Cancer Screening in Kaoma District

Kaoma District Health Director Dr Idi Mwinyi has thanked CIDRZ for organising and facilitating a 10-day competency-based cervical cancer screening training for health workers in Western […]
November 4, 2024

CIDRZ Submits Recommendations on the Proposed National Health Research and Training Institute Bill 2024

As Zambia repeals its “Tropical Diseases Research Centre (TDRC) Act of 1982,” to replace it with the “National Health Research and Training Institute Bill of 2024,” […]
November 1, 2024

CIDRZ’s USAID-TBLON Project Enhances TB Management in Zambia’s Correctional Facilities.

The Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ), through its United States Agency for International Development Tuberculosis Local Organisations Network (USAID-TBLON) project working in collaboration […]
October 31, 2024

USAID TBLON SUPPORTS THE ROLL-OUT OF A SHORTER TB TREATMENT REGIMEN TO RESOLVE THE PILL BURDEN 

The United States Agency for International Development Tuberculosis Local Organisations Network (USAID-TBLON) Chief of Party, Dr Mary Kagujje, has said that Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) patients could […]