Developed in Badakhshan province, the program is showing signs of success in both health promotion and education, in addition to their community nursing initiatives.
Also, we looked at a large sample of PLWH receiving care within a province-wide program, where all patients can access free medical attention, cART, and laboratory monitoring.
The potential exists within the 43 identified activities (and likely many that were unidentified) to launch a coherent and collaborative province-wide program of QI-PHC.
Currently there is no province-wide program that facilitates automatic electronic transfer of consultation letters from specialists and hospital discharge summaries.
The reported number of patients cured in the Jogjakarta province TB program surveillance system was 1053 of a total of 1300 TB patients treated in DOTS facilities in Jogjakarta province in 2005 [ 9].
Based on this experience, the Saskatchewan Ministry of Health pilot tested RTC in Saskatchewan in fall 2008 and fall 2009 and subsequently mandated its implementation it as a province-wide program.
On the basis of these results, it was decided to proceed with a WIFS/deworming intervention that targeted approximately 52,000 WRA in two districts, and if successful to scale up to a province-wide program.
In the Päijät-Häme province, the program has now been integrated into the regional health care, where it is by default offered to all patients with elevated FINDRISC score (6).
Wellcome Trust for the UK work; National Natural Science Foundation of China (30740040) for the Chinese work; the Jiangsu Province Funded Program of 'Six Peaks for the Qualified Personnel' (07-A-019); Jiangsu Province Innovation Team of 'Qinglan Project' and Scientific Research Innovation Program for Graduate students, Jiangsu Province, China.
This qualitative exploratory study used modified grounded theory and focus group methodology to gather information on the shared experiences of both older (>25 years) and younger (18 25 years) women who were eligible for the voucher program in the three program provinces.
