| African countries |
Ratio of THPs to population |
Ratio of Medical Doctors to population |
| Zimbabwe |
1: 600 |
1: 6250 |
| Swaziland |
1: 100 |
1: 10 000 |
| Ghana |
1: 200 |
1: 20 000 |
| Uganda |
1: 700 |
1: 25 000 |
| Tanzania |
1: 400 |
1: 33 000 |
| Mozambique |
1: 200 |
1: 50 000 |
| South Africa* |
5: 1000 |
50: 100 000 |
|
| Sources: Abdool-Karim et al. [5], George et al., [6]* |
| Table 1: Sample ratio of THPs compared with the ratio of medical doctors to the
population. |