The programme was particularly strong in delivering results in terms of infrastructure provision in the target areas, exceeding in all cases targets set for infrastructure provision and number of people covered by the action.
The impact of the program on the existing antenatal care infrastructure including the proportion and number of women receiving recommended antenatal care at clinic visits was unknown.
They continuously struggle to adjust to conditions in a country where the lack of infrastructure and large number of rudimentary settlements makes the setting seem an ancient backwater.
However, in low- and middle-income rural communities, lack of basic medical infrastructure and limited number of skilled birth attendants are significant barriers to timely obstetric care.
There are other wear measurement techniques that can measure in vivo 3D wear more accurately (Bragdon et al. 2002), but these techniques require the implantation of tantalum beads and a dedicated infrastructure, which limits the type and number of patients who can be studied, and in some cases prevents any studies.
These metrics are gathered via a monitoring infrastructure and a number of software probes.
The Haifa municipality had spent more than $350 million on roads and infrastructure, and the number of building permits had risen 83% in the previous two years.
The key indicators collected cover infrastructure (e.g. number of clinics and drop-in centres), human resources (e.g. number of peer educators), and service utilization (e.g. number of condoms distributed and number of individuals visiting a clinic in a month).
In regions of the world with minimal health infrastructure and large numbers of HIV-1 infected individuals, management of ART is necessarily based on simplified, standard treatment protocols (Bennett et al., 2008a; Gilks et al., 2006).
In the following section we describe some of the key requirements for ELVIRA and show how they have been met for the case of the Astrophysics application using the ELVIRA tools, the functionality provided by cloud infrastructures and a number of additional off-the-shelf components.
