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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.

Mental & emotional health problems

Zimbabwe: low-cost, brief psychological intervention helps people with HIV stay virally suppressed

News
12 April 2024
Health services & systems

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

Editor's pick
Spotlight
18 August 2023
Task shifting

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

Editor's pick
Spotlight
9 May 2023
PrEP programmes & uptake

Who, what, where and when: tailoring PrEP services to increase uptake

News
1 August 2022
Mental & emotional health problems

Integrating lay counsellors into routine HIV care improved mental health symptoms in Mozambique

News
19 January 2022
Access to healthcare

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

Editor's pick
World Health Organization
1 December 2020
Sexually transmitted infections tests & treatment

Self-sampling for STIs in the rectum and throat as diagnostically accurate as sampling by a clinician

News
1 October 2020
Mental & emotional health problems

Group psychotherapy led by lay health workers can dramatically improve depression in people with HIV, says Ugandan study

News
27 February 2020
Task shifting

Can ending the HIV epidemic be achieved without nurses?

Editor's pick
The Hill
15 November 2019
Hepatitis C treatment

Pharmacist-Driven Hep C Treatment Sees Good Cure Rates

Editor's pick
POZ
24 July 2019
PrEP policies & guidelines

How About Letting Nurses Provide PrEP to Patients?

Editor's pick
Contagion Live
3 May 2019
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings

Point-of-care viral load testing improves treatment outcomes and retention in care

News
5 March 2019
Task shifting

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

Editor's pick
Financial Times
24 January 2019
PrEP programmes & uptake

Starting from here – what PrEP programmes can learn from circumcision

News
10 September 2018
Self-testing & home testing

Giving gay men self-test kits increases testing by 50% – but STI tests decrease

News
21 August 2018
Types of HIV tests

HIV self-testing is greatly preferred to clinic testing by young South African bi/gay men

News
2 July 2018
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Loss of lay counsellors leads to fall in HIV testing in KwaZulu-Natal

News
21 June 2018
Mental & emotional health problems

Better depression care could improve outcomes for HIV treatment programmes

News
21 February 2017
Global health targets

Ending the HIV epidemic faces daunting barriers, former WHO HIV chief warns

News
30 November 2016
Activism & civil society

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

Editor's pick
AllAfrica
20 July 2016
Global health targets

Option B+ has enabled Malawi to make significant progress towards 90-90-90

News
27 February 2016
Treatment guidelines

How do we maximise global HIV treatment access? IAPAC Care Continuum Guidelines make recommendations

News
9 November 2015
HIV testing programmes & uptake

Spanish pharmacy HIV testing programme detects many new infections

News
16 September 2015
Improving HIV care

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

Editor's pick
PLOS Blogs
21 July 2015