Status:
UNKNOWN
Effect of Public Sector Antiretroviral Treatment Programme on Tuberculosis and Immunization Care
Lead Sponsor:
University of Cape Town
Collaborating Sponsors:
Free State Department of Health
Medical Research Council, South Africa
Conditions:
Tuberculosis
Eligibility:
All Genders
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
A scale-up of public sector antiretroviral treatment (ART) programmes may divert scarce resources from other priority primary care programmes like tuberculosis and childhood immunization. The purpose...
Detailed Description
Large-scale public sector antiretroviral treatment programmes, like those planned for sub-Saharan Africa, will compete for scarce resources, in particular scarce human resources, with other priority p...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Clinics:
- Intervention: 15 primary care clinics participating in the first phases of the national antiretroviral treatment programme
- Control: 24 primary care clinics yet to be included in the national antiretroviral treatment programme randomly selected after stratification for health district and ranking of clinic size.
- Patients:
- All patients attending tuberculosis and childhood immunization programmes at the above 39 clinics one year before and one year after antiretroviral treatment services commenced in these facilities.
Exclusion
- Clinics:
- Clinics earmarked for the second year of the rollout of the antiretroviral treatment programme.
- Patients:
- None.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
May 1 2003
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
December 1 2006
Estimated Enrollment :
39 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00203762
Start Date
May 1 2003
End Date
December 1 2006
Last Update
October 24 2007
Active Locations (1)
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University of Cape Town Lung Institute
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, 7937