{"id":5023,"date":"2022-09-13T13:46:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T13:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tdrc.org.zm\/?page_id=5023"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:46:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T13:46:25","slug":"objectives-of-the-centre","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tdrc.org.zm\/?page_id=5023","title":{"rendered":"Objectives of the Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>Conduct research in diseases of public health importance in the Region.<\/li><li>Develop and evaluate tools, technologies and strategies for the prevention and control&nbsp; of diseases and related conditions.<\/li><li>Collect and disseminate scientific information including the publication of scientific&nbsp; reports, journals and other such documents and literature relating to the work of the&nbsp; Centre.<\/li><li>Serve as a Regional Research and Training Center in Africa.<\/li><li>Strengthen research and product development in malaria through design and mplementation of epidemiological studies aimed at understanding better the burden of&nbsp; malaria including its socio-economic impact<\/li><li>To evaluate new tools including candidate vaccines for prevention and control of&nbsp; malaria.<\/li><li>To develop new ways of utilizing current and new drugs, traditional medicines and&nbsp; technologies for malaria prevention and control.<\/li><li>To strengthen the technical capacity of the Center to conduct research and product&nbsp; development activities that will contribute to national, regional and global prevention&nbsp; and control of HIV infection.<\/li><li>Development and evaluation of new methods of utilizing current and new drugs,&nbsp; traditional remedies, vaccines, technologies and tools for HIV\/AIDS and STI prevention&nbsp; and control.<\/li><li>Build capacity for detection of drug resistant tuberculosis, validation of molecular&nbsp; techniques for detection and surveillance of drug resistant strains, and devise ways of&nbsp; utilizing current and new drugs and strategies for prevention and control of TB.<\/li><li>Develop capacity for conducting priority research in micronutrients aimed at creating a&nbsp; national database, improving current public health interventions, and assessment of&nbsp; impact of interventions.<\/li><li>Provide epidemiological data necessary for defining the place of schistosomiasis on the&nbsp; national health agenda, and to formulate a national strategy for control.<\/li><li>To strengthen and sustain proven ways of trypanosomiasis transmission reduction, early&nbsp; detection and treatment of cases in order to expand tsetse fly free areas and hence&nbsp; enable socio-economic development.<\/li><li>To establish a sentinel surveillance system, develop and evaluate existing and new&nbsp; tools, technologies and strategies for the prevention and control of diarrheal disease.<br><br><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>With the expanded research mandate, the Centre embracing research on all health&nbsp; problems of national importance. Thus, the institution conducts research in diseases of&nbsp; public health importance, which include malaria, HIV\/AIDS, TB, diarrhoea diseases,&nbsp; schistosomiasis, Human African Trypanosomiasis, micronutrient deficiency diseases and&nbsp; sexually transmitted diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the funding for research is received from external funding agencies and this has made the Centre vulnerable to externally driven research. Some notable funders to&nbsp; the institution are WHO, UNAIDS, Sight and Life, SIDA, ITM, CIHD, CIDA, USAID, CDC and&nbsp; Population Council. The Government does give monthly grants to TDRC mainly for&nbsp; operational costs. However, this funding has not been adequate to meet the capacity&nbsp; needed for the institution to carry out the research mandate. Therefore, the Centre&nbsp; will seek to source funding from relevant international research and development&nbsp; funding agencies through grant applications for medium to long term programmes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conduct research in diseases of public health importance in the Region. Develop and evaluate tools, technologies and strategies for the prevention and control&nbsp; of diseases and related conditions. Collect and disseminate scientific information including the publication of scientific&nbsp; reports, journals and other such documents and literature relating to the work of the&nbsp; Centre. 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