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    Lessons learned during down referral of antiretroviral treatment in Tete, Mozambique.

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    Decroo, T
    Panunzi, I
    das Dores, C
    Maldonado, F
    Biot, M
    Ford, N
    Chu, K
    Affiliation
    South African Medical Unit, Médecins Sans Frontières, Johannesburg, South Africa. kathyrn.chu@joburg.msf.org.
    Issue Date
    2009-05-06
    
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    Journal of the International AIDS Society
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    ABSTRACT: As sub-Saharan African countries continue to scale up antiretroviral treatment, there has been an increasing emphasis on moving provision of services from hospital level to the primary health care clinic level. Delivery of antiretroviral treatment at the clinic level increases the number of entry points to care, while the greater proximity of services encourages retention in care.In Tete City, Mozambique, patients on antiretrovirals were rapidly down referred from a provincial hospital to four urban clinics in large numbers without careful planning, resulting in a number of patients being lost to follow-up.We outline some key lessons learned to support down referral, including the need to improve process management, clinic infrastructure, monitoring systems, and patient preparation. Down referral can be avoided by initiating patients' antiretroviral treatment at clinic level from the outset.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10144/73775
    DOI
    10.1186/1758-2652-12-6
    PubMed ID
    19419543
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    1758-2652
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1186/1758-2652-12-6
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