Based on the authors' programmatic experience, noncompliance to protocols is likely to be more common amongst Clinical Officers (COs) than nurses, due to the acute bottlenecks experienced at the point of patient screening, which promoted a culture of 'clearing' patients as quickly as possible.
Moreover, lack of political commitment, vision, and programmatic initiatives based on the assessment of average performance/achievement of states rather than focusing on within and between groups inequity has made the vulnerable sections more disadvantaged.
In 2012, based on the above considerations, nPOD initiated a programmatic expansion, called nPOD-Transplantation, in which patients with T1D who are recipients of pancreas transplants consent for directed, postmortem donation to the nPOD program.
Diagnosis of TB in HIV positive individuals in this analysis was based on the national guidelines for clinical and programmatic management of TB, TB/HIV and leprosy in Ethiopia.
Many of these programmatic efforts are based on the assumption that if people received the benefits and incentives, they would shift their attention and change behaviors.
A decision to conduct such activities should be based on the setting-specific cost-effectiveness analysis and programmatic assessment.
Programmatic recommendations must be based on the needs, risks and characteristics of individual populations, as well as comparisons between populations, due to the relatively significant level of interaction among them.
The areas of operation were selected by the inSCALE project based on the ability to control for drug supply a key additional programmatic constraint to health-focused CHW programmes as these were provided by other projects.
Furthermore, the benchmark for the estimate was based on the number of SW contacts rather than on unique individuals because of limitations in the programmatic data for Belgrade.
This could include promoting universal health coverage and prioritising the risk groups based on the epidemiology of TB, as well as establishing robust health infrastructure and programmatic management.
