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Table 6 Staff numbers allocated to PMTCT 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

PMTCT

All clinical

staff

Ratio

Lusaka

2005

5

0.24

0.36

0.39

56

168

0.33

 

2007

5

0.27

0.34

0.43

64

185

0.35

Kabwe

2005

7

0.05

0.20

0.60

53

241

0.22

 

2007

7

0.42

0.81

1.00

79

224

0.35

Mumbwa

2005

11

0.00

0.25

0.50

24

110

0.22

 

2007

11

0.31

0.60

2.00

36

113

0.32

Total

2005

23

0.05

0.25

0.50

133

519

0.26

 

2007

23

0.31

0.58

1.00

179

522

0.34

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