Impact of integration of sexual and reproductive health services on consultation duration times: results from the Integra Initiative.

ABSTRACT: The lack of human resources is a key challenge in scaling up of HIV services in Africa's health care system. Integrating HIV services could potentially increase their effectiveness and optimize the use of limited resources and clinical staff time. We examined the impact of integration of provider initiated HIV counselling and testing (PITC) and family planning (FP counselling and FP provision) services on duration of consultation to assess the impact of PITC and FP integration on staff workload. This study was conducted in 24 health facilities in Kenya under the Integra Initiative, a non-randomized, pre/post intervention trial to evaluate the impact of integrated HIV and sexual and reproductive health services on health and service outcomes. We compared the time spent providing PITC-only s

SUBMITTER: Siapka M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5886289 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature