Table 9 |
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Country staffing ratios and implications for estimating staffing needs to treat patients based on country-level or other large-scale plans or proposals* |
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| Country |
Annual total HRH by end of proposed scale-up |
Target number on ART by end of proposed scale-up |
Patient: total staff ratio at end of scale-up |
Number to treat 1000 on ART |
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| Tanzania** |
3014 |
423 050 |
140 |
7 |
| Mozambique***20 |
1069 |
132 000 |
124 |
8 |
| Rwanda23**** |
1769 |
57 959 |
33 |
31 |
| Zambia6+ |
176* |
24 420 |
139 |
7 |
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*MDs, nurses, staff counsellors, lab technicians and pharmacists (if included). Administrators were not included in the country-level estimates. **from United Republic of Tanzania HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment Plan, October 2003. ***from The National Strategic Plan to combat STI/HIV/AIDS, Government of Mozambique, July 2003 ****Peer/PLWHA adherence promoters not included. Inclusion of these would decrease ratios to 4.5., HIV/AIDS Treatment and Care Plan, Government of Rwanda, June 2003 +Counselors and lab technicians not included. |
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Hirschhorn et al. Human Resources for Health 2006 4:1 doi:10.1186/1478-4491-4-1 |
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