The Integration of HIV/AIDS Care and Support into Primary Health Care in Gauteng Province

A set of input, process, and/or output indicators were defined for the following aspects of care and support: HIV testing and counselling management of opportunistic infections (including tuberculosis) palliative care networking relationships (vertically with hospitals and horizontally with community-based structures) staff support systems (training, workload, morale-motivation etc.) and user perceptions.

Between May and August 2001, we visited 50 (out of a total of 405) clinics in Gauteng Province, selected through a stratified (by region) random sampling method. The facilities included community health centres and medium sized and smaller satellite clinics from both provincial and local government authorities.