tailieunhanh - báo cáo sinh học:" Task-shifting HIV counselling and testing services in Zambia: the role of lay counsellors"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : Task-shifting HIV counselling and testing services in Zambia: the role of lay counsellors | Human Resources for Health BioMed Central Research Task-shifting HIV counselling and testing services in Zambia the role of lay counsellors Parsa Sanjana1 Kwasi Torpey 1 Alison Schwarzwalder2 Caroline Simumba1 Prisca Kasonde1 Lameck Nyirenda1 Paul Kapanda3 Matilda Kakungu-Simpungwe4 Mushota Kabaso1 and Catherine Thompson1 Address 1Family Health International Zambia Prevention Care and Treatment Partnership Lusaka Zambia 2Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health New York New York USA 3Ministry of Health DHMT Mansa Zambia and 4Ministry of Health DHMT Ndola Zambia Email Parsa Sanjana - Kwasi Torpey - ktorpey@ Alison Schwarzwalder - Caroline Simumba - csimumba@ Prisca Kasonde - PKasonde@ Lameck Nyirenda - LNyirenda@ Paul Kapanda - kapandapaul@ Matilda Kakungu-Simpungwe - mkakungu-simpugwe@ Mushota Kabaso - mkabaso@ Catherine Thompson - Cthompson@ Corresponding author Open Access Published 30 May 2009 Received 2 March 2009 Human Resources for Health 2009 7 44 doi 1478-4491-7-44 Accepted 30 May 2009 This article is available from http content 7 1 44 2009 Sanjana et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background The human resource shortage in Zambia is placing a heavy burden on the few health care workers available at health facilities. The Zambia Prevention Care and Treatment Partnership began training and placing community volunteers as lay counsellors in order to complement the efforts of the health care workers in providing HIV counselling and testing .