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N. Chintu: Pediatric HIV infection: State-of-the-Art

Chintu, Namwinga

Namwinga Chintu MD is the Deputy Director of the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ). She received her medical degree from the University of Zambia and later specialized in Pediatrics and Child Health. She also trained in Tropical Pediatrics at the University of Liverpool. She holds an honorary lecturer position at in the University Teaching Hospital Department of Pediatrics and an
Dr. Namwinga Chintu is the Deputy Director of the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ). She received her medical degree from the University of Zambia and later specialized in Pediatrics and Child Health.  She also trained in Tropical Pediatrics at the University of Liverpool. She holds an honorary lecturer position at in the University Teaching Hospital Department of Pediatrics and an Assistant Professorship with the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department Pediatrics. Prior to becoming Deputy Director, she was responsible for overseeing a large government prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT )program supported by CIDRZ that has cumulatively tested over 850,000 women since inception in 2001 and has identified and provided prophylaxis to  over 125,000 HIV infected women.
CIDRZ is a Zambian non-profit company with 580 employees and an annual budget of $31 million. It is also an important partner to the Zambian government in its fight against HIV/AIDS. CIDRZ  which began supporting services to PMTCT program in 2001 is largely funded largely through the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Since 2003, CIDRZ has worked to roll out AIDS treatment services widely in Zambia. As of August, 2008, these programs have enrolled over 200,000 adults and children, and started over 140,000 on life-saving anti-AIDS drugs. Dr Chintu actively involved in research as Clinical lead and Co principal investigator in research activities at CIDRZ related to pediatric HIV, PMTCT  and maternal and child health.  She has severed as a consultant for UNICEF in PMTCT and pediatric HIV.