... 372:341-3.
doi:10.1186/1478-4491-8-23
Cite this article as: Brentlinger et al.: Task shifting in Mozambique: cross-
sectional evaluation of non-physician clinicians’ performance in HIV/
AIDS care. Human Resources for Health 2010 ... best of our knowledge, this study is the first to
use direct observation of patient care to describe the
quality of HIV/AIDS care in...
... Almost all the lay counsellors we inter-
viewed were interested in future training and continuing
in what was considered a professional field, including
obtaining advanced certificates and degrees. ... portion of the evaluation
were used to calculate error rates at the level of the facility
and of the province. Since these errors were also tallied
according to the initials of th...
... presence
is often geographically circumscribed and may often be
temporary, depending often on external, short-term
donor funding.
Task shifting, while driven by the urgencies of conquering
the HIV/AIDS ... implementation of relevant policies and to
resource, guide and support training institutions to not
only upgrade training but also ensure appropriate initial
and continuing educati...
... feeding their
infants in ways that may increase the risk of HIV transmis-
sion. In this context, the quality of the infant feeding
counselling and the knowledge and practices of nurses
providing ... called into question.
An increasing body of research documents the shortcom-
ings of infant feeding counselling particularly in terms of
counsellors' knowledge about pMTCT a...
... constant flows of traditional donor
financing may not allow substantial initial investment
with lower rates of continuing finance.
Recent innovation in donor funding may address both
shortcomings. On ... monitoring or
outsource enforcement to existing institutions); and evaluation (in order to broaden the evidence
on the effectiveness of financial incentives in increasing the hea...
... changes in the dynamics
of the labour market. According to this line of reasoning,
the present trend towards greater flexibility of salaries and
the length of the working day favours women's insertion
into ... distribution of the total number of work-
ers according to age group for the period 2002–2006.
During this period there was an increase in the number of
non-perma...
... neuroserpin decrease.
All determinations were carried out in a laboratory
blind to the clinical outcome and neuroimaging findings.
Endpoints
The primary endpoint was the decrease of neuroserpin
levels ... Neuroserpin was used
as a continuous variable since there was a linearity of the
odds ratios for outcome. T he influence of neuroserpin
decrease at 24 h on serum levels of molecula...
... the percentage of MULTIMER binding in
CD8-positive cells for each staining from all seven
pp65- and Melan-A-positive donor-antigen combina-
tions. The values of MULTIMER b inding in CD8-posi-
tive ... MULTIMER binding (median -0.049%) in
the condition WITH DUMP (green data points) which
represents a 4.1-fold median reduction of the background
staining in this subgrou p of expe...
... recommendations.
Evaluation of immunohistochemical staining
Stainedsectionswerereviewedbyoneoftheauthors
(AB). The percentage of tumor cells showing a positive
membranous/cytoplasmatic staining and the intensity ... technology.
In short, tumor tissue cores of 3 mm in diameter were
removed from the area of interest from each donor block
using a hollow needl e skin biopsy punch (P...
... metastases
also occurred in several bones, indicating that other
COX-2-independent mechanisms also contributed to
metastasis.
In mice receiving celecoxib since t he time of LPS
administration, LPS-mediated ... variations of metas-
tasis parameters were observed in heart, testes, brain,
skin, and gastrointestinal tract, a s compared to
Table 1 Metastasis development in high metasta...