Proven strategies are needed 10– 12; as despite a large volume of programmatic experience relating to CHW motivation, there has been little documentation.
Both communes and individual study populations within communes were selected to provide breadth of programmatic experience, a technique common for qualitative research [ 28, 29], and not for sample representativeness, as is done in a quantitative study.
This paper has brought together a wide range of programmatic experience and technical expertise in neonatal care from across the globe to inform programme managers and policy makers in multiple settings facing a range of health system challenges in delivering high quality, facility-based care to small and sick newborns.
Evidence shows that local leadership enhances the implementation of new practices [ 35], which is consistent with the programmatic experience of this study.
More research will be needed, however, to assess the time demands and overall programmatic experience of integrating care for depression into current ANC service delivery platforms.
Programmatic experience of authors in Zambia strongly suggests that facility-level leadership often plays an important role in adherence to protocolized care in weak health systems.
Second, in 2010, Van Deun et al. published their experience with programmatic management of MDR TB in Bangladesh (11 ) and suggested that an intensive 9-month regimen was more effective than treatment success rates reported worldwide and was also considerably less expensive.
Review of programmatic reports and investigator experience suggests that this occurred for different reasons in different clinics.
The focus group approach fitted the purpose of this study, which was to explore experts' experiences and ideas on the largely uncharted topic of programmatic assessment.
This is a retrospective observational cohort study using review of programmatic and clinical data to describe the early experience with an ED based prevention intervention for PLWH.
