Zambia's National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Programme was established in 1964 as a standalone tuberculosis program within the Ministry of Health and merged with the country's separate Leprosy Control Programme in 1980 to form the combined programme that exists today. The programme provides comprehensive TB care and control through case management, community involvement and data-driven strategies, and it adopted the World Health Organization's Xpert MTB/RIF molecular test in 2012, initially as the primary diagnostic tool for high-risk presumptive TB patients and now recommended for all presumptive cases nationwide. Its National Strategic Plan for 2017 to 2021 carried the theme Towards TB Elimination, and the programme has since developed a further strategic plan covering 2022 to 2026 to continue that work.
Facts
Sponsoring BodyMinistry of Health (Zambia) 1 Geographic Scope Classification
Program KindDisease Surveillance Program 1 Connections
Delivers Practice
Entity-backed identity for the program-kind enum value this public health program already carries, resolved to a health practice by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The program-kind fact itself stays on the program unchanged.
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Africa, found in there.
Sources
1. The Impact of Tuberculosis on Zambia and the Zambian Nursing Workforce (OJIN 2006)
Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, American Nurses AssociationHistory sectionQuote, History section
Since the time of Zambia's independence in October 1964, there has been a series of national programmes for tuberculosis. Initially, the new Zambian government established the National Tuberculosis Control Programme to monitor the incidence, prevalence, and treatment of tuberculosis in the country.
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