tailieunhanh - báo cáo hóa học:" From HIV diagnosis to treatment: evaluation of a referral system to promote and monitor access to antiretroviral therapy in rural Tanzania"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về hóa học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học đề tài : From HIV diagnosis to treatment: evaluation of a referral system to promote and monitor access to antiretroviral therapy in rural Tanzania | Journal of the International AIDS Society BioMed Central Research From HIV diagnosis to treatment evaluation of a referral system to promote and monitor access to antiretroviral therapy in rural Tanzania Ray Nsigaye1 Alison Wringe 2 Maria Roura2 Samuel Kalluvya3 Mark Urassa1 Joanna Busza2 and Basia Zaba2 Open Access Address Tazama Project National Institute of Medical Research Mwanza Tanzania 2Centre for Population Studies London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine London UK and 3HIV AIDS Unit Bugando University College of Health Sciences Mwanza Tanzania Email Ray Nsigaye - raynsigaye@ Alison Wringe - Maria Roura - Samuel Kalluvya - samuelkalluvya@ Mark Urassa - malloomark@ Joanna Busza - Basia Zaba - Corresponding author Published II November 2009 Received 19 July 2009 Journal of the International AIDS Society 2009 12 31 doi 1758-2652-12-31 Accepted 11 November 2009 This article is available from http content 12 1 31 2009 Nsigaye 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 Individuals diagnosed with HIV in developing countries are not always successfully linked to onward treatment services resulting in missed opportunities for timely initiation of antiretroviral therapy or prophylaxis for opportunistic infections. In collaboration with local stakeholders we designed and assessed a referral system to link persons diagnosed at a voluntary counselling and testing VCT clinic in a rural district in northern Tanzania with a government-run HIV treatment clinic in a nearby city. Methods Two-part referral forms with unique matching numbers on each .