| Abstract |
The Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) implemented the 2014 Service Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA) to generate reliable and regular information on service delivery including service availability, such as the availability of key human and infrastructure resources, and on the readiness of health facilities to provide basic health-care interventions relating to family planning, child health services, basic and comprehensive obstetric care, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and noncommunicable diseases.
The SARA assessment was a cross sectional survey of health facilities from a two tiered health system in Zimbabwe. Data was collected from 275 health facilities in all 10 provinces of Zimbabwe. These health facilities included rural health centres, rural hospitals, urban clinics, secondary referral facilities such as district and mission hospitals, and private hospitals and clinics. All the provinces and facilities were stratified by type of facility and administration.
This report covers the following categories of indicators:
1. General service availability
• Health infrastructure density
• Health workforce density
• Service utilization
2. General service readiness
• Basic amenities
• Basic equipment
• Standard precautions for infection prevention
• Diagnostic capacity
• Essential medicines
3. Service specific availability and readiness
• Maternal, neonatal and child health
• Non-communicable diseases
• Adolescent health
• Malaria
• Tuberculosis
• HIV counseling and testing
• HIV/AIDS care and support
• Antiretroviral prescription and client management
• Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT)
• Sexually-transmitted infections
• Blood transfusion
• Surgical services
• Advanced diagnostic
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