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Table 2 Professional nurses: trends in vacancy rates of ART posts (November 2004, to November 2006) as against all

From: Human resource development and antiretroviral treatment in Free State province, South Africa

 

ART posts

All PHC

posts

(August

2006)

District

November

2004

March

2006

August

2006

November

2006

 

Lejweleputswa

36.4%

8.0%

8.7%

8.0%

25.6%

Motheo

8.3%

4.6%

4.4%

0%

45.5%

Thabo Mofutsanyana

8.3%

4.6%

8.7%

13.0%

30.6%

Xhariep

46.2%

57.1%

42.9%

38.0%

54.4%

Fezile Dabi

45.5%

13.6%

18.2%

22.7%

35.9%

Total posts

28.8%

(of 59*)

16.8%

(of 113*)

15.8%

(of 114*)

15.7%

(of 115*)

37.1%

(of 1 664)

  1. PHC posts (August 2006), per district (PERSAL data)
  2. Note: The numbers of professional nurses differ from the original 60 (Phase I) and 112 (Phase I and II) professional nurse posts created for the ART programme; these differences are ascribed to the creation of additional posts at some of the larger sites later during programme rollout.