Table 2.

Perceptions of peer educators (PE) and health care workers (HCW) of PE adherence counseling contributions.

	Peer educators (n=29) Agree or strongly agree	Health care workers (n=53) Agree or strongly agree
PEs help reduce the amount of counseling the rest of the clinic staff must perform.	28 (96.6%)	50 (96.1%), 1 missing
PEs do as good a job of counseling patients as health care workers.	23 (79.3%)	48 (90.6%)
Health staff are able to see more patients.	22 (75.9%)	44 (83.0%)
Nurses, clinical officers, pharmacists are able to spend more time with individual patients.	22 (78.6%), 1 missing	30 (56.6%)
Health staff can spend more time talking to patients about issues other than adherence.	25 (86.2%)	N/A
HCWs spend less time talking to patients about adherence.	N/A	45 (84.9%)