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Table 1 Type of health care facility and qualifications of respondents interviewed

From: Perspectives of health care providers on the provision of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy in health facilities in Malawi

Type of facility

Type of respondent

Qualifications

Regional Central Hospital Urban

Enrolled nurse and community nurse-midwife

ART, PMTCT, STI, IDSR, trauma for patients involved in car accidents

Nurse and midwife technician

ART initiation, IPTp, Option B+

Nurse and midwife

Care counseling, in-service on SP, infant feeding, nurses as managers, PMTCT

Government Hospital Rural

Clinical officer

IPTp

Community nurse and midwife

ART, CBMAM, focused ANC, IMCI, infection prevention, malaria case management, PMTCT, pneumonia case management

Nurse and midwife technician

ART

CHAM Hospital Rural

Registered nurse and midwife

ART

Nurse and midwife

 

Community nurse and midwife

FANC, SP

Government Hospital Rural

Community health nurse

Family planning, infection prevention, supportive supervision

Community health nurse

FANC, HIV/AIDS counseling and testing, PMCT

Community health nurse

ART , HIV/AIDS counseling and testing

CHAM Hospital Rural

Community nurse technician

ARV, counseling, family planning, FANC, PMTCT, SP, tuberculosis management

Senior community health nurse

 

Nurse midwife

ART

Regional Central Hospital Urban

Nurse and midwife technician

Family planning, FANC, infection prevention reproductive health, VIA

Nurse and midwife technician

 

Nurse and midwife technician

 

Nurse and midwife technician

FANC, PMTCT, STI, VIA

Government Hospital Semi-urban

Enrolled community nurse and midwife

 

Community nurse and midwife

 

Community health nurse

ARI, ART, CMAM, community mobilization, ETAT, FANC, integrated community-based maternal and neonatal health, PMTCT

Government Hospital Rural

Enrolled midwife technician

 

Nurse and midwife technician

FANC, intensive training in HTC, PMTCT, safe motherhood

Nurse and midwife technician

 

Nurse and midwife technician

IMCI, integrated ART, PMTCT, youth-friendly services

  1. ANC antenatal care, ARI acute respiratory infection, ART antiretroviral therapy, ARV antiretroviral, CBMAM community based management of acute malnutrition, CMAM community management of acute malnutrition, ETAT emergency triage and assessment treatment, FANC focused antenatal care, HTC HIV testing and counseling, IDSR integrated disease surveillance and Response, IMCI integrated management of childhood illnesses, IPTp intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy, PMTCT prevention of mother-to-child transmission, SP sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, STI sexually transmitted infection