Open AccessFront-Line Human Resource Time-Use for Early Infant HIV Diagnosis: A Comparative Time-Motion Study at Centralized and Point-of-Care Health Facilities in Zimbabwe
Author(s) -
Oluwarantimi Adetunji,
Sushant Mukherjee,
Emma Sacks,
Andrea Ciaranello,
Addmore Chadambuka,
Haurovi Mafaune,
Nicole C McCann,
Jennifer Cohn
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.162
H-Index - 157
eISSN - 1944-7884
pISSN - 1525-4135
DOI - 10.1097/qai.0000000000002364
Subject(s) - medicine , confidence interval , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , point of care , limited resources , motion study , point of care testing , front line , sample size determination , statistics , nursing , family medicine , immunology , geography , mathematics , risk analysis (engineering) , archaeology , physical medicine and rehabilitation
Point-of-care (POC) assays for early infant diagnosis of HIV (EID) increase access to testing, shorten time to results, and expedite initiation of antiretroviral therapy when compared with laboratory-based assays. However, there is a significant gap in our understanding of its human resource impact at the facility level. This study evaluates front-line health workers' (HWs') time associated with EID.