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ZAMBART (Zambia AIDS Related TB) Project is a Zambian NGO formed in 2004 from a collaboration between the School of Medicine University of Zambia and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, that started in 1989. 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 the School of Medicine Ridgeway campus of the University of Zambia in Lusaka, ZAMBART Project 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 and counselling. ZAMBART focuses on the overlap between HIV and TB in order to improve the quality of life of people affected by the dual epidemic. Conducting research within a limited resource setting, ZAMBART is committed to : - Bridging research and action through operational research and through forging effective collaboration with local stakeholders;
- Providing evidence-based and high quality research;
- Addressing relevant and priority questions.
- Capacity building - managerial, technical and scientific - is inherent in ZAMBART’s approach.
ZAMBART has no core funding but has been successful in attracting grants from a wide range of sources, in particular the Commission of the European Union, World Health Organisation, Wellcome Trust, Beit Trust, TB Alert, USAID (via ICRW), UNICEF (via Panos), DFID, IFPRI and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Much of the current portfolio of activity is funded through the CREATE Consortium, funded by the Gates Foundation, DFID Knowledge programmes on Tuberculosis (TARGETS) and HIV (Evidence for Action). |
