Table 1. General characteristics and data entry staff of 21 ART programmes in low- and middle-income countries participating in a study correlating record-keeping practices with losses to follow-up.
| Site characteristics |
Staff routinely involved in data entry |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Region | Clinic type | Sources of external funding | Patients currently on ART (n) | Weekly clerical staff hours | Weekly medical staff hours | Weekly clerical staff hours (per 100 patients currently on ART) | Weekly medical staff hours (per 100 patients currently on ART) | Training in data management or data quality control | |
| Africa | |||||||||
| Central | NGO | b, e | 1275 | 60 | 0 | 4.7 | 0.0 | No | |
| Eastern | Public | a, b, c, e | 19 320 | 980 | 0 | 5.1 | 0.0 | Yes | |
| Public | a, e | 302 | 45 | 45 | 14.9 | 14.9 | Yes | ||
| Public | None | 4163 | NA | NA | NA | NA | No | ||
| Public | a, e | 1204 | 40 | 0 | 3.3 | 0.0 | Yes | ||
| Southern | NGO | a, b, e | 3943 | 24 | 320 | 0.6 | 8.1 | Yes | |
| NGO | a, c, d | 814 | 40 | 40 | 4.9 | 4.9 | Yes | ||
| NGO | a, b, d, e | 1250 | NA | NA | NA | NA | No | ||
| Private | None | 100 | NA | NA | NA | NA | No | ||
| NGO | e | 910 | 0 | 30 | 0.0 | 3.3 | No | ||
| Western | Public | b, e | 72 | 2 | 1 | 2.8 | 1.4 | No | |
| Public | b, e | 653 | 20 | 0 | 3.1 | 0.0 | No | ||
| NGO | None | 2398 | 6 | 6 | 0.3 | 0.3 | No | ||
| NGO | b, e | 200 | 5 | 23 | 2.5 | 11.5 | Yes | ||
| Public | e | 1800 | 70 | 20 | 3.9 | 1.1 | Yes | ||
| Public | b | 320 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.6 | No | ||
| Public | None | 930 | 40 | 10 | 4.3 | 1.1 | Yes | ||
| Public | a | 6113 | 400 | 350 | 6.5 | 5.7 | Yes | ||
| Asia | NGO | b, d | 3000 | 48 | 48 | 1.6 | 1.6 | Yes | |
| NGO | e | 293 | 80 | 40 | 27.3 | 13.7 | Yes | ||
| South America | Public | d | 1000 | 60 | 20 | 6.0 | 2.0 | Yes | |
ART, antiretroviral therapy; NA, not applicable (sites not routinely using a computerized database); NGO, nongovernmental organization. a President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. b The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. c Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. d National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America. e Other.