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Table 5 Staff numbers allocated to ART delivery as a ratio of all clinical staff, 2005 and 20071.

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

District

Year

Numbers of

facilities

Lower

quartile

Median

Upper

Quartile

Staff delivering

ART

All clinical

staff

Ratio

Lusaka

2005

6

0.40

0.53

0.82

87

155

0.56

 

2007

6

0.40

0.50

0.80

81

153

0.53

Kabwe

2005

7

0.20

0.28

0.60

88

286

0.31

 

2007

7

0.27

0.44

1.00

133

270

0.49

Mumbwa

2005

8

0.04

0.75

1.25

34

91

0.37

 

2007

8

0.42

0.73

2.00

44

99

0.44

Total

2005

21

0.20

0.46

0.83

209

532

0.39

 

2007

21

0.31

0.59

1.00

258

522

0.49

  1. 1Clinical staff include doctors, nurses, clinical officers and HIV counsellors