Scaling Up ART Adherence Clubs in the Public Sector Health System in the Western Cape, South Africa: a Study of the Institutionalisation of a Pilot Innovation
posted on 2024-09-05, 22:09authored byHayley MacGregor, Andrew McKenzie, Tanya Jacobs, Angelica Ullauri
In 2011, a decision was made to scale up a pilot innovation involving ‘adherence clubs’ as a form of differentiated care for HIV positive people in the public sector antiretroviral therapy programme in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. In 2016 we were involved in the qualitative aspect of an evaluation of the adherence club model, the overall objective of which was to assess the health outcomes for patients accessing clubs through epidemiological analysis, and to conduct a health systems analysis to evaluate how the model of care performed at scale. In this paper we adopt a complex adaptive systems lens to analyse planned organisational change through intervention in a state health system. We explore the challenges associated with taking to scale a pilot that began as a relatively simple innovation by a non-governmental organisation.
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MacGregor, H., McKenzie, A., Jacobs, T., Ullauri, A. (2018) Scaling up ART Adherence Clubs in the Public Sector Health System in the Western Cape, South Africa: A Study of the Institutionalisation of a Pilot Innovation. Globalization and Health, (14)40.