The Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ) is a non-profit organisation founded in 2001 as collaboration between the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA, the Ministry of Health and the University of Zambia School of Medicine. In 2011 CIDRZ became an independent, Zambian, non-governmental organisation. CIDRZ is now one of Zambia’s largest NGOs employing almost 700 Zambians who support health services in more than 423 clinics and hospitals in 31 districts over 5 Provinces. CIDRZ is an active partner of, and aims to be a permanent resource to, the Government of the Republic of Zambia and currently collaborates with the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Community Development Mother and Child Health, Ministry of Home Affairs Zambian Prisons Service, University of Zambia, an