The Zambia AIDS Related Tuberculosis (ZAMBART) Project is a Zambian NGO formed in 2004 from a collaboration between the University of Zambia’s School of Medicine and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine that spans more than 20 years. From the initial studies of the impact of HIV on the clinical presentation and outcome of tuberculosis, the scope and partnership of the research have expanded widely.

Based in Lusaka, ZAMBART now collaborates closely with government, non-governmental and academic institutions within Zambia, Africa and the rest of the world. ZAMBART staff form an interdisciplinary team with a range of expertise including epidemiology, clinical science, social science, laboratory, operations research, health systems and services research, health policy analysis, health economics, development communication and counselling.

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ZAMSTAR

The Zambia-South Africa TB and AIDS Reduction (ZAMSTAR) study is a seven year, $15 million study, seeking to test interventions that can limit the spread of TB at the community-level. The ZAMSTAR study is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation through the Consortium to Respond Effectively to the AIDS and TB Epidemics (CREATE)and is a community randomised trial is 24 communities - 16 communities in Zambia and 8 in the Western Cape of South Africa.

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