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Challenges of scaling-up of TB-HIV integrated service delivery in Ghana
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, PLoS ONE, Vol 15, Iss 7, p e0235843 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science, 2020.
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Abstract
- Integration of tuberculosis and HIV services in many resource-limited settings, including Ghana, has been far from optimal despite the existence of policy frameworks for integration. A previous study among programme managers and other stakeholders at the national level has documented tardiness in committing to the integration of services. In this paper, we aimed at unravelling pertinent challenges that confront TB-HIV integrated service delivery. Data were obtained from interviews with 31 individual health care providers operating under different models of TB-HIV service delivery. The study is framed around the Complexity Theory. We applied inductive and deductive techniques to code the data and validations were done through inter-rater mechanisms. The analysis was done with the assistance of QSR NVivo version 12. We found evidence of a convivial working relationship between TB-HIV service providers at the facility level. However, the interactions vary across models of care-the lesser the level of integration, the lesser the complexities for interactions that ensued. This had resulted in operational challenges on account of how the two-disease environment interacts with the other components of the health system. These challenges included; weak/inappropriate infrastructure, frail coordination between the two programmes and hospital administrators, under-staffing in comprehensive TB-HIV management, use of community facility under the Directly-Observed Treatment (DOT) protocols, and financial constraints. To fully appropriate the enormous benefits of TB-HIV service integration, there is a need to address these challenges.
- Subjects :
- RNA viruses
Bacterial Diseases
Male
Viral Diseases
Process management
Service delivery framework
Epidemiology
HIV Infections
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Ghana
Systems Science
Geographical Locations
0302 clinical medicine
Individual health
Immunodeficiency Viruses
Medicine and Health Sciences
030212 general & internal medicine
Disease management (health)
Multidisciplinary
Delivery of Health Care, Integrated
Disease Management
HIV diagnosis and management
Complex Systems
Service provider
Middle Aged
AIDS
Infectious Diseases
Medical Microbiology
HIV epidemiology
Viral Pathogens
Viruses
Physical Sciences
Medicine
Female
Pathogens
Research Article
Adult
Computer and Information Sciences
Science
Health Personnel
030231 tropical medicine
MEDLINE
Microbiology
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
Retroviruses
medicine
Tuberculosis
Humans
National level
Microbial Pathogens
Service (business)
Health Care Policy
Lentivirus
Organisms
Biology and Life Sciences
HIV
medicine.disease
Tropical Diseases
Diagnostic medicine
Health Care
People and Places
Africa
Business
Mathematics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 15
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....be937ac91d15f568823feb58ddfbceae