Showing 38 news articles about Task shifting

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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.

Health services & systems

South Africa: The court ruling that gives qualifying pharmacists the green light to provide HIV and TB meds without a script

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Spotlight
18 August 2023
Task shifting

South African courts to decide whether pharmacists can start HIV medicines without a doctor’s script

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Spotlight
9 May 2023
Access to healthcare

Successful continuation of antiretroviral therapy delivery during COVID 19 – best practices from the South East Asia Region

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World Health Organization
1 December 2020
Task shifting

Can ending the HIV epidemic be achieved without nurses?

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The Hill
15 November 2019
Hepatitis C treatment

Pharmacist-Driven Hep C Treatment Sees Good Cure Rates

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POZ
24 July 2019
PrEP policies & guidelines

How About Letting Nurses Provide PrEP to Patients?

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Contagion Live
3 May 2019
Task shifting

South Africa’s drug ATMs offer formula to treat chronic illness

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Financial Times
24 January 2019
Activism & civil society

South Africa: Mark Heywood - Nodding Along to Protesters At #Aids2016 Is Not Enough

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AllAfrica
20 July 2016
Improving HIV care

Simple but elusive – why are we still talking about HIV drug delivery?

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PLOS Blogs
21 July 2015
Task shifting

Health workforce shortage weakens AIDS response

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Science Speaks
4 March 2015
Improving HIV care

HIV science and treatment knowledge can end AIDS epidemic in the US

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News Medical
4 February 2015
Improving HIV care

Different community HIV testing and counselling approaches reach different populations in rural Africa

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Medical News Today
17 December 2014
Improving HIV care

Patients' app diagnoses 'not useful'

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BBC
2 October 2014
Health services & systems

On AIDS: Three Lessons From Africa

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New York Times
4 August 2014
Task shifting

Malawi: Shortage of Healthcare Workers Affects Aids Battle

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AllAfrica
23 January 2014
Improving HIV care

Eric Goosby Returns to UCSF Intent on Applying Lessons Learned as U.S. Global AIDS Ambassador

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University of California San Francisco
26 November 2013
Retention & linkage to care

Should ART provision be decentralized to health centres in low and middle income countries?

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BMJ Group blogs
13 August 2013
Circumcision

Planning for non-surgical male circumcision

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IRIN Africa
8 July 2013
Improving HIV care

South Africa: Poor Services Undermine HIV Treatment Programme

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AllAfrica
4 April 2013
Improving HIV care

South Africa: Private Sector Funding to Train Doctors

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AllAfrica
9 November 2012
Task shifting

ZIMBABWE: Nurses step up to initiate HIV treatment

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IRIN Plus News
17 October 2012
Task shifting

Zimbabwe: 'Nurses Now Allowed to Put Patients On ART'

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AllAfrica
16 August 2012
Task shifting

Nurses As Effective As Doctors In Treatment Of HIV Patients

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

PEPFAR Launches Labs For Life with Partners

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US State Department
27 July 2012