The proposal that won first place, by jury, is a self-sufficient clinic with a satellite dish, solar power and a water collection system.
A successful vaccination programme needs to have appropriately trained health professionals, sufficient vaccine and clinic resources and a range of opportunities for vaccination and willing patients.
The most common reasons for defaulting from scheduled visits were: a) patient reports of being well and no longer in need of treatment; b) patient expects medication to be prescribed, feeling that the talking therapy was not a sufficient reason for repeated clinic visits; c) inability to afford the cost of transportation to clinic; and d) concerns about whether medication may lead to dependence.
Within two weeks, a letter from Mae Watson Grote, a partner at the clinic, was sufficient to lift the restrictions on the bank account and have the $125 returned to the Sanchezes.
The three non-reporters considered that contact tracing conducted by staff of the GUM clinic was sufficient to control the outbreak.
The present study result may indicate that standard care offered by an NHS Glaucoma Clinic was sufficient to promote high adherence with travoprost for the population studied.
For children who had been in the clinic a sufficient time, delayed initiation of ART could have resulted from biomedical, social or health care-associated factors.
The criteria used for selecting participant observers were that they had previous exposure to a public ART clinic, had sufficient understanding of the intention of the evaluation and had similar socio-demographic characteristics as the patient population served by public ART clinics.
In addition, rates of attrition after HIV diagnosis are often difficult to compare across studies, due to different definitions of linkages to care (e.g. whether provision of cotrimoxazole or registration at a clinic is sufficient, or whether ART is a necessary element in the package).
At a patient's initial clinic visit sufficient time is allotted for introduction to the team members, for in-depth discussion of provisional diagnosis and recommended management, and to begin the process of consent using procedure-specific consent forms and clear written material provided before admission for surgery (see Supplementary Material).
