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Zambia-led Prevention Initiative (ZPI) Program

Project Background

The Zambia-led Prevention Initiative (ZPI) Program, implemented by FHI 360’s Center on AIDS & Community Health (COACH), aims to increase utilization of community-level interventions through a targeted approach and provide technical leadership and expertise on comprehensive, effective, community-based prevention efforts aimed at reducing HIV transmission in Zambia.  ZPI will pilot and evaluate effective HIV prevention interventions, including structural interventions and economic development intervention; facilitate increased coverage, access, and uptake of these interventions; and strengthen the capacity and engagement of the Government of Zambia (GRZ).  ZPI is also working with the private sector to direct, manage, and sustain these interventions as part of a broader response to the HIV epidemic in Zambia. 

FHI 360 partners with the following organizations to carry out project activities: the Population Council, Catholic Medical Mission Board (CMMB), Afya Mzuri, Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Management Program (CHAMP), Zambia Health Education and Communications Trust (ZHECT), Hodi and Grassroot Soccer Zambia.

Project Objectives

  • Build capacity in communities affected by HIV and AIDS to access more effective, gender-sensitive, higher-quality HIV prevention programs, including testing and counseling (TC), male circumcision (MC), and prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT)
  • Strengthen the continuity and coordination of, as well as commitment to, effective, efficient, and sustainable HIV prevention, including TC, MC, and PMTCT
  • Design efficient, sustainable, and locally owned responses to HIV and AIDS, including increased engagement with the private sector
  • Provide community-based family planning and reproductive health services as an adjunct to effective prevention of HIV and AIDS

Project Impacts

As of September 2011, the ZPI project had achieved the following results:

  • Over 1,500 pregnant women tested for HIV and received results
  • Over 900 People Living with HIV and AIDS (PLHA) reached with a minimum package of Prevention with Positives (PwP) interventions
  • Over 25,000 members of the targeted population reached with individual and/or small group level HIV preventive interventions
  • Over 9,000 individuals received TC services for HIV and received their test results
  • Nearly 4,500 individuals reached by an individual, small group or community-level intervention or service that explicitly address gender-based violence and coercion related to HIV and AIDS
  • 300 adults and children provided with Economic Strengthening services

Key Staff

Country Staff

  • Chad Rathner, MSc, Chief of Party (Country Contact) email bio
  • Chileshe Chilanga, Deputy Chief of Party

U.S.-based Staff

  • Parsa Sanjana, MPH, Project Director (HQ Contact) email bio
  • Sarah Torrance, MPH, Program Officer II
  • Caitlin Corcoran, Program Officer

Funding Organization

ZPI is funded from August 2010 to December 2014, through a task order under TASC-3, by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) through PEPFAR.