This strategic plan was crafted within the context of the broader National Health Strategic Plan (NHSP) 2017-2021, which aims to reduce the overall U5MR from 75 per 1000 live births to 35 per 1000 live births by 2021. In…
Read moreThis report presents the key findings of the 3rd IMCI health facility survey which was conducted to assess the quality of health services being provided to children, the performance of health workers trained in IMNCI and…
Read moreUniversal Health Coverage (UHC), is top of the global health policy agenda and has been adopted as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Zambia’s transformative agenda acknowledges that a healthy nation is ke…
Read moreThe Ministry of Health has made tremendous progress in reducing the burden of Leprosy in Zambia. Leprosy cases dropped from approximately 18,000 cases in 1980 to about 1000 cases in 1996. By the year 2000, the incidence …
Read moreThe Zambia Population Based HIV impact assessment of 2016, reported the prevalence of viral hepatitis in Zambia as ranging between 5.6% among adults aged 15 to 59% in the general population, and 7.1% among HIV infected i…
Read moreThis report presents the baseline information which would contribute to integrated surveillance of AMR in Zambia. It brings together presently available data across human-health, animal, plant sectors and the environment…
Read moreThis report presents a five-year roadmap to phase out non-therapeutic antibiotic use and critically important antibiotics in the poultry and cattle sectors in Zambia. It shows how an emerging country like Zambia is getti…
Read moreThis report provides a framework to conduct AMR surveillance in an integrated manner, keeping in mind the capacities in Zambia. The framework aims to support the implementation of the surveillance component of Zambia’s m…
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