Team PATA

Reporting Back - Clinic Stats

1. Growth in the PATA network

The PATA 2005 conference in Cape Town was attended by 23 teams from 12 countries in Africa. In Nairobi in 2006, this was extended to 33 teams from 18 countries, and in Swaziland in 2007, to 40 teams from 20 countries.

Not all teams in the PATA network can attend the annual conference due to constraints such as finances, venue size and constraints inherent in the process of working in small group workshops which is a key element at PATA conferences. In addition to those teams attending the conference, many clinics have satellite sites that also participate in the network.

The PATA network thus extends to more than 80 clinics in 21 African countries that are currently active within the network (ie participating in the conference or current PATA projects) but this number may actually be as many 120.

PATA teams are represented in the following countries:
Angola, Burkina Faso, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Cote D'Ivoire, DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Swaziland, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

2. Patient numbers (2006/2007)

In the month prior to the 2007 PATA forum, teams were asked to volunteer the stats of the number of children in treatment within their clinic at November 2006 in comparison to November 2007. The table below depicting a sample of the stats submitted by 17 clinics, is useful to see the growth in number of children being managed by clinics over the year. On average, clinics reported a 33.5% increase in the number of children in treatment between November 2006 and November 2007.