Therefore, from 1959 regional and zonal TB centres were created nationwide for case detection and service provision (Sriyabhaya et al., 1993; Prakalapakorn, 2000; Palwatwichai, 2001).
The process to promote ECD for Guambiano children and guarantee their rights began with UNICEF advocacy meetings with the traditional reservation authorities*, the Cauca Regional and Zonal Indigenous Centre, and the Offices of ICBF.
Moreover, since 2009 AFR has been applied on a pilot basis in four other districts in Tanzania within the area served by the participating Zonal Resource Centre in Iringa.
PHCI is a Zonal Training Centre with a mandate to provide training of health professionals and health system management support to the districts of Iringa and Ruvuma Regions in Tanzania.
The model is familiar, with tertiary hospitals at the centre, zonal and district hospitals at nodal points in the periphery, and a hierarchy of primary health centres, health posts and sub-health posts reaching down into the community.
So Medellín's network of business development agencies, the centres of zonal development of companies (CEDEZOs), is now targeting growth-oriented small and medium businesses, rather than just helping lots of chasita-type microenterprises that typically survive no longer than a year or two.
They are mainly countries where the Centre has zonal research sites.
In addition to collaborative research networks, ILCA's headquarters and zonal research sites are the Centre's outreach points for collaborative research.
Our study was initiated by the findings that the zonal tertiary hospital, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC), had a high CS rate of 33% during the period 2000-07, together with a high proportion of self-referred birthing women.
There is one specialized referral hospital as well as five zonal hospitals, seven district hospitals, 208 health centres and more than 600 kebeles (health posts) in the region.
