Region: Eastern Africa

Capital: Lusaka

Population: 11.7 million (August 2005 est.)

Surface area: 752,614 square km

Currency: kwacha

Development Index: 165

Life Expectancy: 38 years

Infant Mortality: 102/1000

% of population below $1 a day: 76 (1994-2004)

Adult Literacy: 68%

£20 pays for a uniform for a new community volunteer.

£80 buys a bicycle for a Home Based Care volunteer to visit patients in their homes

£200 buys sputum pots for patients to give samples for diagnosis and to check their TB is improving

£350 buys a trailer bike - a kind of bicycle ambulance to transport very ill patients

£1200 covers the cost of training 50 new Home Based Care Volunteers in TB Treatment support

£1500 buys soap and disinfectant for 1000 families - patients who also have HIV are very vulnerable to opportunistic infections and this helps protect them