Sentence examples for drug readiness from inspiring English sources

Patients suffering from anxiety and depression may be less likely to seek care, complete drug readiness, and initiate treatment.

In addition, lay counsellors are increasingly substituting professional nurses in providing aspects of drug readiness training on their own for ART patients, a task initially performed by professional nurses [ 27].

Since November 2011, the OHU at this facility (excluded from the RCT) has been offering a comprehensive HIV program where HCT, routine monitoring of CD4 counts, drug readiness and access to treatment is offered.

Patients eligible for ART (CD4 < 200 or Stage 4 AIDS) accessed drug readiness training, baseline blood tests and monthly ART supplies at these assessment sites, but were referred to accredited ART treatment sites within designated hospitals for doctors to initiate and repeat ART prescriptions.

Three elements of pre-ART care – voluntary counselling and testing (VCT); initial CD4 counts; and 6-monthly routine HIV care – as well as three elements of ART care – baseline blood tests; drug readiness training; and monthly supply of ARVs – were to be integrated into primary care services at two different levels.

After a doctor has certified the patient for ART, the assessment site also becomes the point of drug-readiness training, monthly drug issue, and PHC delivery [ 3].

The population included both those patients already receiving ART and those not yet receiving ART but already certified by a designated doctor as qualifying for treatment, who were required to attend drug-readiness training.

The study has the following limitations; firstly, study participants were drawn only from those HIV + individuals who had gained access to the public sector antiretroviral treatment programme and had successfully completed drug-readiness training.

Cluster groups differed on extrinsic variables such as drug use, readiness to change, and interest in treatment or in attending Alcoholics Anonymous.

Out of concern for the impact of alcohol and drug abuse on the readiness of the forces, Congress asked the Institute of Medicine to assess the adequacy of current Defense Department programs for preventing, screening and treating substance abuse.

In 2005, the Army's deputy chief of staff at the time, Lt. Gen. Franklin L. Hagenbeck, wrote in an editorial in a magazine for Army leaders that the rising rate of heavy drinking and drug use "seriously impacts mission readiness".