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Employment of Off-Duty Staff: A Strategy to Meet the Human Resource Needs for a Large PMTCT Program in Zambia |
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Thursday, 02 April 2009 05:24 |
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At the start of 2004, an estimated 39 million people worldwide were infected with HIV, 6 million of whom were in urgent need of antiretroviral therapy (ART).1 Now that substantial funds have been pledged for HIV care and treatment, in many developing countries the lack of financial resources is no longer the primary impediment to adequate provision of services. Instead, policy makers now see the lack of trained health professionals as the major barrier to rapid scale-up.2–5
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