All interviews were conducted at the facilities during times convenient to those interviewed; generally in-between clients or meetings for counsellors or managers, and between or after service appointments for clients.
Barlow, the nurse practitioner, and Carolyn Rasmussen, a counsellor and case manager, hear recollections of watching sunburst explosions, sweeping ash from porches and watching relatives die.
A final rural focus group interview included two lay counsellors, a nurse manager and a clinical nurse practitioner, all female.
" (clinic 4) In some clinics, the adherence counsellor became an unofficial manager of the programme, as they were the only staff member present at the clinic since the start of the programme.
The reference group comprised nine members: two clinical nurses; a palliative care physician; a social worker; a psychologist; a counsellor; a psychosocial services manager; a chaplain; and a bereaved former caregiver who also worked as a palliative care volunteer.
Our team comprises five homecare staff, two phone counsellors and a database manager, all of whom are people living with HIV.
Under the direction of an appointed facility manager, lay counsellors provide CT services on a part-time basis under the supervision of facility managers.
Our adherence counselling is superior to that found in more developed settings, as TASO has specifically employed adherence counsellors and database managers at each TASO site.
The health service managers' dual role enabled these participants to speak from the position of manager and referring counsellor.
Each lay health counsellor acted as a case manager for participants who screened positive for common mental disorders and took overall responsibility for delivering all non-drug treatments, in collaboration with the primary care physician and the visiting psychiatrist, with the ultimate goal of a planned discharge upon recovery.
