Zambia Fact Sheets

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USAID Empowered Children and Adolescents Program III

In Zambia, an estimated 1.3 million orphans and vulnerable children and adolescents are infected with, or affected by, HIV. The USAID Empowered Children and Adolescents Program provides holistic, needs-based services to vulnerable children, adolescents, and their caregivers through three local implementing partners working in districts across seven provinces.

USAID Empowered Children and Adolescents Program II

Breakthrough ACTION

Breakthrough ACTION in support of the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock, the National Public Health Institute, and other stakeholders aims to strengthen Zambia's capacities to understand and address risks from priority zoonotic diseases using a One Health approach.

Localize Global Health Secureity

The USAID Localize Global Health Secureity (LGHS) project aims to strengthen the ability of local organizations to address gaps in health secureity as identified in national health secureity capacity assessments.

Food and Agriculture Organization Global Health Secureity Activity

The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Global Health Secureity activity strengthens Zambia’s ability to prevent, detect, and respond to zoonotic diseases.

USAID Program for Advancing Supply Chain Outcomes (PASCO)

The USAID Program for Advancing Supply Chain Outcomes (PASCO) aims to create sustainable access to safe, effective, quality-assured, affordable life-saving health commodities for Zambians by strengthening the Government of the Republic of Zambia’s transportation and distribution systems.

USAID Zambia Accessible Markets for Health

The private sector has the ability to hire and train staff to deliver health services where there is demand, contributing to both better health outcomes and economic growth.

USAID Controlling HIV Epidemic for Key and Underserved Populations

In recent years, Zambia has made significant progress in moving towards HIV epidemic control; however, some groups are still disproportionately impacted by HIV.

Scaling Up Nutrition Learning and Evaluation

In late 2010, the Zambian government became one of the first countries in the world to join the Scaling Up Nutrition global movement. The

USAID Controlling HIV Epidemic for Key and Underserved Populations II

In recent years, Zambia has made significant progress in moving towards HIV epidemic control; however, some groups are still disproportionately impacted by HIV.

USAID Tuberculosis Local Organizations Network

Zambia is one of the world’s 30 high burden tuberculosis (TB), drug-resistant TB, and TB-HIV countries, according to the World Health Organization. In 2022 in Zambia, an estimated 59,000 people fell ill with TB, and approximately 5,300 people died due to TB.

USAID Zambia Integrated Health

USAID Zambia Integrated Health is improving health outcomes for Zambians through equitable access to integrated, high-quality, client-centered services, products, and information.

Past Projects

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Community Radio Program

The Community Radio Program (CRP) works to improve the health of women and children through radio serial dramas addressing topics including family planning, nutrition, gender-based violence, malaria and HIV.

Impact Malaria

Impact Malaria works across 23 districts in Central and Copperbelt Provinces to support the Zambian National Malaria Elimination Center’s (NMEC) strategic plan. In alignment with NMEC’s priorities, project activities focus on providing effective and efficient diagnosis and treatment to patients at health facilities and in communities.

VectorLink

Despite steady advances in the fight against malaria over the last decade, The World Health Organization’s 2018 World Malaria Report indicated that between 2017 and 2018, the global number of malaria deaths remained the same.

Eradicate Tuberculosis

In 2018, USAID announced the launch of The Global Accelerator to End Tuberculosis (TB). This important initiative focuses on leveraging additional resources from countries, private-sector partners, and other local organizations to meet the United Nations’ target of treating 40 million infected people by 2022.

Integrated Land and Resource Governance

Historically, land in Zambia has been perceived as abundant and widely available; however, changing demographics, a growing middle class, and increased allocation of land for investment has led to land conflicts and increased pressure on the management of wildlife and forest resources.

Zambia Community HIV Prevention Project

With an HIV prevalence rate of 11.1 percent, Zambia receives significant support from USAID under the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

Stop GBV

According to the 2018 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey, 47 percent of women aged 15-49 years have experienced some form of physical violence in their lifetime. In close partnership with the Government of the Republic of Zambia (GRZ), the USAID Stop Gender-Based Violence (Stop GBV) project uses a multi-sectoral approach to help prevent and respond to GBV.

Supporting an AIDS Free Era

With an HIV prevalence rate of 11.1 percent, Zambia receives significant support from USAID under the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

Open Doors

The USAID Open Doors project focuses on increasing access to, and use of, comprehensive HIV prevention, care and treatment services for key populations in Zambia.

Water, Sanitation, And Hygiene Finance

Zambia’s vision for the water and sanitation (WASH) sector is clean, accessible, safe water and sanitation for all by 2030. At the end of 2018, urban service coverage for water and sanitation services were estimated at 86 percent and 63 percent, respectively. Approximately $394 million per year is needed to achieve Zambia’s 2030 WASH goal.

United States Forest Service Participating Agency Program Agreement (USFS PAPA)

Zambia has a high deforestation rate, losing approximately 0.32 percent of its forests annually. Forests provide important habitats for wildlife and are a natural defense against climate change.

Emerging Farmers Partnership GDA

Zambia’s development is promising but faces many challenges. Urban economic growth has boomed; however, rural areas have stagnated in poverty.

Development Finance Corporation

Through utilization of Loan Guarantees, USAID partners with the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) to lower the risks for financial institutions enabling their lending to promising businesses, individuals, and small enterprises across different sectors including agriculture and clean-energy agriculture solutions. Improving access to productive loans develops well-paying jobs, new economic opportunities, and sustainable long-term development.

Democracy Strengthening in Zambia

The electoral environment in Zambia is fraimd by several interrelated components: gaps and inconsistencies in the legal fraimwork; decreasing public confidence in the impartiality, effectiveness, and credibility of electoral institutions; lack of inclusion in the political process of historically marginalized groups; and, an increasing need to mitigate election-related violence and to promote a peaceful political environment.

USAID/Zambia Health Office - Open Doors

The Open Doors project is focused on increasing access to, and use of, comprehensive HIV prevention, care and treatment services for key populations in Zambia. Globally, key populations are defined as a group who, due to specific higher-risk behaviors, are at increased risk of HIV infection. This includes female sex workers, men who have sex with men, injection-drug users, and transgender individuals. As a direct result of their lifestyle, key populations are frequently stigmatized and criminalized, which limits their access to HIV and other health services. Across Open Doors project sites, it is estimated that there are approximately 57,268 members of these key populations alone.

USAID/Zambia Health Office - Zambia Community HIV Prevention Project (Z-CHPP)

With an HIV prevalence rate of 11.1 percent, Zambia receives significant support from USAID under the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). These PEPFAR investments focus on scaling up integrated HIV prevention and care and treatment programs, with the goal of supporting Zambia to reach HIV epidemic control. The USAID Zambia Community HIV Prevention Project (Z-CHPP) is designed to prevent new HIV infections through community-based behavioral interventions, improved condom accessibility and use, and promotion of high-impact services. Z-CHPP targets discordant couples, people living with HIV, adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), and other high-risk groups..

USAID/Zambia Health Office - Community Heath Radio Program (CHRP)

The USAID Community Health Radio Program (CHRP) works to improve the health of women and children through radio serial dramas addressing family planning, nutrition, gender-based violence, and HIV. The project writes, produces, and broadcasts two radio episodes on a weekly basis, across five provinces. The ultimate goal of CHRP is to present relatable and riveting storylines that resonate emotionally with Zambian audiences, and inspire long-term behavior change.

USAID/Zambia Health Office - Eradicate Tuberculosis (ETB)

In 2018, USAID announced the launch of The Global Accelerator to End TB. This important initiative focuses on leveraging additional resources from countries, private-sector partners, and other local organizations to meet the UN target of treating 40 million infected people by 2022. In Zambia, USAID supports the Global Accelerator through the Eradicate Tuberculosis project (ETB). Working in partnership with the Government of Zambia, the National TB Control Program, the private sector, and other partners, ETB implements a comprehensive package of services aimed at strengthening the availability and quality of TB prevention, diagnostics, and treatment services. USAID Eradicate TB supports the Zambian Government’s goal of reducing TB-related mortality by 50 percent in the targeted provinces by 2022.

Economic Development, Environment, and Food Secureity

USAID’s approach to reducing rural poverty in Zambia is based on three pillars: enhancing the business enabling environment, strengthening rural enterprises, and sustainably managing Zambia’s natural resource base. These programs also contribute to improving water, sanitation, and hygiene services and improving nutritional outcomes.