Table 1 Facility characteristics and staffing in primary care facilities included in the baseline survey
| Â | Malawi | Uganda | Zimbabwe | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No ART provision | ART provision | All facilities | No ART provision | ART provision | All facilities | No ART provision | ART provision | All facilities | |
|  | N = 7 | N = 9 | N = 16 | N = 15 | N = 6 | N = 21 | N = 1 | N = 15 | N = 16 |
Location | |||||||||
 Urban | 0 (0%) | 2 (22%) | 2 (13%) | 1 (7%) | 2 (33%) | 3 (14%) | 0 (0%) | 2 (13%) | 2 (13%) |
 Peri-urban | 1 (14%) | 2 (22%) | 3 (19%) | 2 (13%) | 1 (17%) | 3 (14%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (7%) | 1 (6%) |
 Rural | 6 (86%) | 5 (56%) | 11 (69%) | 12 (80%) | 3 (50%) | 15 (71%) | 1 (100%) | 12 (80%) | 13 (81%) |
 Catchment populationa | 29,275 (16,986–36,640) | 38,286 (21,504–42,716) | 29,522 (17,996–39,242) | 8,600 (5,600–11,000) | 39,650 (6,700–105,610) | 9,000 (5,900–27,300) | 4,472 | 9,032 (5,256–14,477) | 8,616 (4,967–14,114) |
 Adults and children on ART |  | 516 (241–886) |  |  | 206 (59–660) |  |  | 234 (109–415) |  |
Clinical Officers/Medical assistants | |||||||||
 No. staff per facility | 1 (1–1) | 2 (1–2) | 1 (1–2) | 1 (1–2) | 2 (1–2) | 2 (1–2) | 0 | 0 (0–0) | 0 (0–0) |
 No. staff per 10000  Catchment | .34 (.25–.59) | .46 (.26–1.0) | .38 (.26–.92) | 1.20 (.91–2.45) | .56 (.19–1.49) | 1.16 (.72–2.22) | 0 | 0 (0–0) | 0 (0–0) |
Midwives/nurses | |||||||||
No. staff per facility | 2 (1–3) | 3 (2–13) | 2.5 (1–4.5) | 3 (2–6) | 7 (4–12) | 4 (3–6) | 3 | 6 (2–15) | 6 (2.5–14) |
 No. per 10000  Catchment | .76 (.27–1.81) | .70 (.52–1.73) | .73 (.40–1.77) | 3.67 (1.06–8.70) | 1.89 (.71–11.94) | 3.64 (1.06–8.70) | 6.7 | 4.5 (2.8–8.7) | 4.9 (2.8–8.2) |
Counsellors | |||||||||
 No. staff per facility | 0 (0–0) | 0 (0–0) | 0 (0–0) | 0 (0–0) | 0 (0–0) | 0 (0–0) | 0 | 1 (1–1) | 1 (1–1) |
 Auxiliary staff | |||||||||
No. staff per facility | 5 (4–9) | 5 (3–6) | 5 (3.5–7.5) | 2 (0–3) | 2.5 (0–3) | 2 (0–3) | 5 | 3 (3–9) | 3 (3–9) |
Community health workers | |||||||||
 No. staff per facility | 11 (8–20) | 19 (17–26) | 18 (11–22) | 0 (0–0) | 0 (0–1) | 0 (0–0) | 4 | 0 (0–0) | 0 (0–0) |
Administrative staff | |||||||||
 No. staff per facility | 0 (0–3) | 0 (0–1) | 0 (0–2) | 0 (0–0) | 0.5 (0–1) | 0 (0–1) | 0 | 0 (0–0) | 0 (0–0) |
 No. facilities with ≥1 admin staff | 3 (43%) | 4 (44%) | 7 (44%) | 3 (20%) | 3 (50%) | 6 (29%) | 0 (0%) | 3 (20%) | 3 (19%) |
Laboratory staff | |||||||||
 No. staff per facility | 0 (0–1) | 0 (0–1) | 0 (0–1) | 1 (0–1) | 0.5 (0–1) | 1 (0–1) | 0 | 0 (0–0) | 0 (0–0) |
 No. facilities with ≥1 lab staff | 2 (29%) | 4 (44%) | 6 (38%) | 11 (73%) | 3 (50%) | 14 (67%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (7%) | 1 (6%) |