Table 5.

Health provider and facility manager attitudes (n = 21)

	Strongly agree	Agree	Neither agree nor disagree	Disagree	Strongly disagree	Mean	Standard Deviation	Z-score to Percentile	Coefficient of Variance
Positive statements
“HIV providers can collect sputum for TB testing just as well as TB providers”	12 (57.1%)	7 (33.3)	1 (4.8%)	1 (4.8%)	0 (0.0%)	4.4	0.81	0.53 (70.1%)	18%
“Asking HIV providers to provide and monitor TB treatment of their HIV-TB co-infected patients improves TB care and treatment and TB outcome”	9 (42.9%)	10 (47.6%)	1 (4.8%)	1 (4.8%)	0 (0.0%)	4.3	0.78	0.36 (64.2%)	18%
Negative statements
“Asking HIV providers to provide and monitor TB treatment of their HIV-TB co-infected patients impacts negatively on the quality of HIV care and treatment”	1 (4.8%)	5 (23,8%)	1 (4.8%)	9 (42.9%)	5 (23,8%)	2.4	1.24	−1.26 (10.4%)	51%
“For infection control, it is better for HIV-TB co-infected patients to be treated for HIV in the HIV service and for TB in the TB service”	5 (23,8%)	3 (14.3%)	0 (0.0%)	11 (52.4%)	2 (9.5%)	2.9	1.44	−0.76 (22.4%)	50%