Assessing determinants of the availability of HIV tracer commodities in health facilities in Wakiso District, Uganda

Figures & data

Table 1. Showing the health facility characteristic.

Variables	Frequency N = 42	Percentage %
ART services provided
All ART services [Testing, Paediatric, Adult, PMTCT]	42	100
Facility Level of Care
General Hospital	6	14.3
Health Centre IV	9	21.4
Health Centre II/HC III	27	64.3
Facility Ownership
Private Not For Profit	4	9.6
Private For Profit	10	23.8
Government	28	66.7
Number of Patients in ART Clinic
High volume [≥1000]	17	40.5
Low volume [<1000]	25	59.5
Period of Provision of ART Services
<5 years	4	9.5
≥5 years	38	90.5
Supplying Warehouse
Joint Medical Stores	14	33.3
National Medical Stores	28	66.7

Figure 1. (A): Overall availability of Tracer Commodities, (B): Tracer Commodity Stock Levels at the facilities.

Table 2. Bivariate and multivariate analysis of determinants of availability of HIV commodities at Health facilities offering HIV services.

Variables	COR [95% CI]	p-value	AOR [95% CI]	p-value
Facility Level of Care
Health Centre II/HC III	0.421 [0.070–2.550]	0.347	0.300 [0.100–1.089]	0.770
Health Centre IV	0.500 [0.060–4.153]	0.521
General Hospital	1.0		1.0
Number of Patients in ART Clinic
Low volume [<1000]	1.350 [0.359–5.078]	0.657	0.330 [0.290–1.997]	0.150
High volume [≥1000]	1.0		1.0
Period of Provision of ART Services
<5 years	2.167 [0.272–7.272]	0.465	2.187 [0.531–3.753]	0.101
≥5 years	1.0		1.0
Supplying Warehouse
Joint Medical Stores-JMS	0.720 [0.179–2.901]	0.644	0.641 [0.401–2.147]	0.411
National Medical Stores-NMS	1.0		1.0
Existing LMIS System
Manual	0.543 [0.120–0.960]	0.029	0.627 [0.132–0.968]	0.002
Electronic and Manual	1.0		1.0
Stores Staff Qualification
Nurse	0.764 [0.750–4.898]	0.764	0.437 [0.158–3.279]	0.420
Medical records Officer	5.000 [0.584–9.797]	0.142	7.673 [0.725–8.256]	0.191
Others	1.0
Timelines of orders
Timely ordering	2.037 [1.806–5.147]	0.025	2.545 [2.126–3.304]	0.003
Late ordering	1.0		1.0
Timeliness of delivery
Timely deliveries	0.462 [0.116–1.829]	0.271	0.64 [0.253–1.654]	0.720
Late deliveries	1.0		1.0

Note: The significance of bold values represent timely ordering and use of both manual and electronic LMIS.

Data availability statement

The datasets used and/or analysed during the current study are available upon reasonable request.