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Table 4 Numbers of frontline health workers allocated to HIV related services, 2005 and 20071

From: Task sharing in Zambia: HIV service scale-up compounds the human resource crisis

 

Lusaka

Kabwe

Mumbwa

Total

Worker

N *

2005**

2007**

N*

2005**

2007**

N*

2005**

2007**

N*

2005**

2007**

ART alone

6

45

45

1

0

4

0

0

0

7

45

49

ART and non-ART services

10

84

82

7

88

126

8

34

43

25

206

251

Total ART §

10

129

127

7

88

130

8

34

43

25

251

300

PMTCT alone

5

18

16

1

4

6

1

2

4

7

24

26

PMTCT and other services

7

65

72

9

58

84

11

22

32

27

145

188

Total PMTCT §

8

83

88

9

62

90

11

24

36

28

169

214

  1. 1Health workers include doctors, nurses, clinical officers and HIV counsellors
  2. * n = numbers of facilities
  3. ** = numbers of health workers
  4. § = total numbers of facilities is based on categories which are not mutually exclusive, ie a facility may have workers devoted to HIV services alone and workers providing HIV and other services