February 2016

A benchmark qualitative study of health service delivery in Botswana in 1989: Nurse assessments of the primary healthcare system before the nationwide spread of HIV/AIDS

An evaluation of the "watershed" Meharry-Botswana nurses training program in 1989 (Linn and Fako, 1990) confirmed that the maternal, child health, and family planning nursing practices taught by the multi-year education intervention in the 1970s had been widely disseminated and adopted. Based on a national sample of over 350 practicing nurses, this was strong evidence of the high clinical capacity of the...

Author(s): James G. Linn, Debra Rose Wilson and Thabo T. Fako