Stress, motivation and professional satisfaction among health care workers in HIV/AIDS care and treatment centers in urban Tanzania: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Shortages of health care workers (HCWs) represents a serious challenge to ensuring effective HIV care in resource-limited settings (RLS). Stress, motivation, and job satisfaction have been linked with HCW retention and are important in addressing HCW shortages. In this cross-sectional study HCW stress, motivation and perceived ability to meet patient needs were assessed in PEPFAR-supported urban HIV care and treatment clinics (CTCs) in Tanzania.

Health-care worker engagement in HIV-related quality improvement in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Objective: To assess health-care worker (HCW) awareness, interest and engagement in quality improvement (QI) in HIV care sites in Tanzania.

Design: Cross-sectional survey distributed in May 2009.

Setting: Sixteen urban HIV care sites in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1 year after the introduction of a quality management program.