{"id":4966,"date":"2022-09-07T08:45:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T08:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tdrc.org.zm\/?page_id=4966"},"modified":"2023-11-10T07:45:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T07:45:09","slug":"historical-background-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tdrc.org.zm\/?page_id=4966","title":{"rendered":"Historical Background"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"4966\" class=\"elementor elementor-4966\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t        <section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4e9daafd elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4e9daafd\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n            \n                        <div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default \">\n                    <div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-78ad9a1b\" data-id=\"78ad9a1b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n            <div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n                        \t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4c1e7755 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4c1e7755\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.8.1 - 13-11-2022 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#818a91;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#818a91;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>TDRC is a medical research and training institution set up in 1975 by WHO\/TDR under\u00a0 resolution number WHO 27.52 of the World Health Assembly, as one of three World\u00a0 Regional Centres for research in tropical diseases such as malaria, schistosomiasis,\u00a0 trypanosomiasis, filariasis etc. The other two were set up in Thailand and Brazil.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The setting up of tropical diseases research centres in developing countries became\u00a0 imperative for various especial reasons. Firstly, despite the continued affliction of\u00a0 the indigenous people by the so called tropical diseases, research on these diseases\u00a0 was being done in institutions in Europe mainly to serve the interests of foreign\u00a0 missionaries, miners, sailors, soldiers and others. Secondly, the research was done to\u00a0 prevent such diseases from spreading to Europe and other protected zones. Much of the research on medicines for malaria, for example, was done to serve military personnel\u00a0 sent to conflict zones in tropical countries. For example, chloroquine which became a\u00a0 famous malaria medicine at one time was discovered by the Germans as they prepared to\u00a0 fight battles of the world wars in Africa and other tropical countries in Asia.\u00a0 Following the world wars, research on medicines for tropical diseases was stepped up to\u00a0 serve the foreign military personnel in conflict areas such as Vietnam.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Although some benefits from the research done in developed countries would trickle down\u00a0 to indigenous people in tropical countries, it was considered inadequate to answer\u00a0 specific research questions to formulate interventions to mitigate the suffering of\u00a0 indigenous people. Tropical diseases such as malaria continued to exact a high\u00a0 morbidity and death toll among indigenous people; therefore, there was a compelling\u00a0 need for research to be done closer to the affected population and inform development\u00a0 of appropriate interventions for those populations.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The need to establish research centres in the developing countries was promulgated by\u00a0 the WHO following a World Health Assembly resolution 27.52.of 1975. This resolution was\u00a0 passed to establish three regional centres for research and training on tropical\u00a0 diseases in three different geographical regions of the developing world. Countries\u00a0 with flourishing and stable governments were requested to host the centres. It was in\u00a0 that regard that countries namely Brazil, Thailand and Zambia were selected. Zambia\u00a0 then being a young developing nation had acknowledged the importance of research in\u00a0 national development, and the need to train Zambians in research, thus embraced the\u00a0 opportunity of hosting one of the research centres. Therefore, the government\u00a0 volunteered to offer space at Ndola Central Hospital to accommodate a WHO research\u00a0 Centre to benefit the region as well as the country. The WHO, UNDP, UNICEF and The\u00a0 World Bank became the main sponsors of the research programmes in TDRC and continued to\u00a0 support the centre through what was known as the WHO, UNDP, UNICEF and The World Bank\u00a0 Special Programme for Research and Training (simply known as TDR), until it was handed\u00a0 over to the Zambian government and became a statutory board under the MOH in 1981.\u00a0 Thus, the TDRC was named after the WHO special programme (TDR) that supported TDRC at\u00a0 its inception.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n        <\/section>\n        \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TDRC is a medical research and training institution set up in 1975 by WHO\/TDR under\u00a0 resolution number WHO 27.52 of the World Health Assembly, as one of three World\u00a0 Regional Centres for research in tropical diseases such as malaria, schistosomiasis,\u00a0 trypanosomiasis, filariasis etc. The other two were set up in Thailand and Brazil. 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