Zambia HIV/AIDS Workforce Study: Preparing for Scale-up

This report presents the findings of a study conducted at 16 healthcare sites in Zambia offering voluntary counseling and testing (VCT), prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (P-MTCT), and antiretroviral (ARV) therapy. The study period, including design, implementation, and data analysis, was April to June 2003. The purpose of the study was to assist the Government of Zambia in determining whether it will have sufficient staff to be able to scale up VCT, P-MTCT, and ARV treatment to reach its targeted numbers of clients. The report analyzes the time taken to carry out the prescribed tasks involved in each of the services, analyzes the extent to which the services are following the national service delivery standards, describes the present workforce involved in providing these services, and analyzes the human resource costs associated with the present workforce arrangements. It then uses these findings to project the staffing and related staffing costs of scaling up services. [from abstract]