A study of patient attitudes towards decentralisation of HIV care in an urban clinic in South Africa
Open Access
- 26 August 2011
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Health Services Research
- Vol. 11 (1), 205
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-11-205
Abstract
In South Africa, limited human resources are a major constraint to achieving universal antiretroviral therapy (ART) coverage. Many of the public-sector HIV clinics operating within tertiary facilities, that were the first to provide ART in the country, have reached maximum patient capacity. Decentralization or "down-referral" (wherein ART patients deemed stable on therapy are referred to their closest Primary Health Clinics (PHCs) for treatment follow-up) is being used as a possible alternative of ART delivery care. This cross-sectional qualitative study investigates attitudes towards down-referral of ART delivery care among patients currently receiving care in a centralized tertiary HIV clinic.This publication has 21 references indexed in Scilit:
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