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The delegation of healthcare tasks usually performed by more highly trained health personnel to those with less training, such as nurses and community health workers. Task shifting has allowed HIV services to be scaled up, especially in resource-limited settings.

Task shifting

Nurses As Effective As Doctors In Treatment Of HIV Patients

Editor's pick
HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today
15 August 2012
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings

PEPFAR Launches Labs For Life with Partners

Editor's pick
US State Department
27 July 2012
Circumcision

Circumcision taking off in several African countries, but more task-shifting needed

News
24 July 2012
TB diagnosis

HIV and TB in Practice for nurses: TB symptom screening and linking to diagnosis and care

News
16 July 2012
TB diagnosis

HIV and TB in Practice for nurses: active TB case finding

News
9 July 2012
Opportunistic infections

HIV and TB in Practice for nurses: cotrimoxazole prophylaxis

News
23 June 2012
Health problems & ageing

HIV and TB in Practice for nurses: non-communicable diseases, HIV and TB

News
18 May 2012
Health services & systems

HIV and TB in Practice for nurses: integration and decentralisation

News
17 April 2012
Adherence

Improved health, wish for normal life, main reason for loss to follow-up in Ugandan HIV patients

News
17 April 2012
TB diagnosis

HIV and TB in Practice for nurses

News
3 February 2012
Health services & systems

The Manchester Malawian medic myth

Editor's pick
BBC Health
15 January 2012
Circumcision

Task shifting for male medical circumcision safe: international review

News
6 January 2012
Circumcision

Agnes Binagwahois: Male circumcision and the path to an AIDS-free generation

Editor's pick
Washington Post
13 December 2011
Task shifting

South Africa loses $1.4 billion training doctors who emigrated

Editor's pick
Los Angeles Times
26 November 2011
Task shifting

Operational research: diagnostics and task-shifting

News
29 July 2011
Task shifting

Task-shifting of HIV care to nurses: successes, but problems to watch out for

News
21 July 2011
Task shifting

Access to HIV services can be increased by task shifting — but only with support and encouragement

News
14 July 2011
Task shifting

Task shifting to lay personnel

News
14 July 2011
Improving HIV care

Overcrowding at clinics deter men from early testing for TB and HIV

Editor's pick
TAC
1 July 2011
Health services & systems

South Africa: How we're re-engineering the health system - Motsoaledi

Editor's pick
PoliticsWeb
31 May 2011
Adherence

Adherence and retention in HIV care in resource-limited settings

News
11 April 2011
Task shifting

Kenya: Staff Sackings Leave Siaya Aids Patients Unattended

Editor's pick
Moreover.com HIV/AIDS feed
8 April 2011
Task shifting

Pharmacy staff also critical for keeping ART patients in care, Mozambique study suggests

News
1 April 2011
Finance & funding

Kenya: Rush to seek Aids drugs strains clinics

Editor's pick
Daily Nation
30 March 2011