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Table 2 Synopsis of Service Development at Lighthouse

From: The path from a volunteer initiative to an established institution: evaluating 15 years of the development and contribution of the Lighthouse trust to the Malawian HIV response

Service

1997-2000a

2001

2003

2005

2007

2009

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

VCT/HTC encounters

b

b

6909

15,039

26,240

40,939

41,706

39,799

41,567

46,944

58,210

CHBC clients

b

b

557

1498

2211

2642

3051

3246

3406

3549

3681

Non-ART Patientsd

18

57

619

1206

1670

2087

1977

d

11,258

14,727

17,188

ART ever started

7

56

1969

5735

10,142

18,740

30,228

d

43,671

50,171

56,611

ART alive & continuing

b

b

836

2620

4570

11,231

17,412

d

22,419

25,053

28,302

TB/HIV patients

na

na

na

b

761

5821

10,726

10,420

11,742

12,714

13,730

HTC Health Centre

na

na

na

na

na

109,891

91,565

55,462

65,852

123,718

88,852c

Family Planning Clinic Clients

na

na

na

na

na

na

1198

2180

2687

3529

4247

Adolescent Care Members

na

na

na

na

na

25

25

37

64

300

340

  1. Figures represent the total number of patients (cumulative) at the end of the respective year
  2. Table 2 Lighthouse Services
  3. VCT/ HTC Voluntary counselling and testing/HIV testing and counselling, CHBC Community home based care
  4. aEstimates, no systematic documentation
  5. bData not available
  6. cFrom September to December 2015, there were no counsellors in the Health Centres
  7. dThese figures are valid for patients who were not-yet-eligible for ART according to Malawian National Guidelines until 2011 and from 2012 onwards for “pre-ART patients”