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Estimating Resource Requirements for Scaling up Antiretroviral Therapy in Uganda

PHRplus estimated the resource requirements of the antiretroviral therapy (ART) care package for Uganda for the period 2005 to 2012. The package of ART services is estimated to cost $60 million in 2005, rising to $92 million annually in 2012. A large number of doctors, nurses, lab technicians, counselors, community health workers, and pharmacy technologists will be needed to provide the ART care package alone, on top of the regular non-ART needs of the health program. The numbers needed for the program will more than double between 2005 and 2012 in some staff categories.