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Effect of Public Sector Antiretroviral Treatment Programme on Tuberculosis and Immunization Care

NCT00203762 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 39

Last updated 2007-10-24

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

A scale-up of public sector antiretroviral treatment (ART) programmes may divert scarce resources from other priority primary care programmes like tuberculosis and childhood immunization.

The purpose of this study is to compare the performance of tuberculosis (TB) and childhood immunization programmes in primary care facilities participating in the South African national antiretroviral treatment programme with those which have yet to be included in the ART programme.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Public sector antiretroviral treatment programmes

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Free State Department of Health

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Medical Research Council, South Africa

    collaborator OTHER

  • Knowledge Translation Programme, University of Toronto

    collaborator OTHER

  • Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences

    collaborator OTHER

  • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of the Western Cape

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Cape Town

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • L R Fairall, MBChB · University of Cape Town Lung Institute

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2003-05-31
Completion
2006-12-31

Countries

  • South Africa

Study Locations

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Diseases

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