Agreement between physicians and non-physician clinicians in starting antiretroviral therapy in rural Uganda
Open Access
- 20 August 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Human Resources for Health
- Vol. 7 (1), 75
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-4491-7-75
Abstract
The scarcity of physicians in sub-Saharan Africa – particularly in rural clinics staffed only by non-physician health workers – is constraining access to HIV treatment, as only they are legally allowed to start antiretroviral therapy in the HIV-positive patient. Here we present a pilot study from Uganda assessing agreement between non-physician clinicians (nurses and clinical officers) and physicians in their decisions as to whether to start therapy.Keywords
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