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Filters Content type: News, Editors' picks Topic: Task shifting

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

Health workforce shortage weakens AIDS response

Editor's pick
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
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings

Can we provide point-of-care viral load tests in poor countries?

News
10 April 2014
Task shifting

Malawi: Shortage of Healthcare Workers Affects Aids Battle

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AllAfrica
23 January 2014
Adherence

African studies identify strategies for improving treatment adherence, retention in care

News
7 January 2014
Improving HIV care

Decentralisation of care reduces HIV and TB-related deaths, illness in Swaziland and Uganda

News
19 December 2013
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
Improving HIV care

Ensuring good-quality HIV care in Europe: where can we improve?

News
19 October 2013
Improving HIV care

Integration of HIV care into primary care reduces deaths in South African trial

News
10 September 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

Male circumcision: the message is catching on, but scale-up poses monitoring and follow-up problems

News
15 July 2013
Circumcision

Planning for non-surgical male circumcision

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IRIN Africa
8 July 2013
Behaviour change interventions

First-ever community-randomised combination prevention trial produces modest drop in HIV incidence, big increase in testing in men

News
3 July 2013
Improving HIV care

Campaign approach increases enrolment of pregnant women on ART in South Africa

News
4 June 2013
Support issues for children & young people

Integrating HIV care into community health workers' role is a good model for southern Africa

News
18 April 2013
Improving HIV care

South Africa: Poor Services Undermine HIV Treatment Programme

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AllAfrica
4 April 2013
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings

Screening can reduce number of patients in need of a doctor's time in busy South African clinic

News
29 January 2013
Starting treatment

HIV and TB in Practice for nurses: Starting ART for treatment and prevention in people with active TB and HIV

News
29 November 2012
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