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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

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12 April 2024
PrEP programmes & uptake

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

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1 August 2022
Mental & emotional health problems

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

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19 January 2022
Sexually transmitted infections tests & treatment

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

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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

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27 February 2020
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings

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

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5 March 2019
PrEP programmes & uptake

Starting from here – what PrEP programmes can learn from circumcision

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10 September 2018
Self-testing & home testing

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

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21 August 2018
Types of HIV tests

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

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2 July 2018
HIV testing policies & guidelines

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

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21 June 2018
Mental & emotional health problems

Better depression care could improve outcomes for HIV treatment programmes

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21 February 2017
Global health targets

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

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30 November 2016
Global health targets

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

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27 February 2016
Treatment guidelines

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

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9 November 2015
HIV testing programmes & uptake

Spanish pharmacy HIV testing programme detects many new infections

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16 September 2015
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings

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

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10 April 2014
Adherence

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

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7 January 2014
Improving HIV care

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

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19 December 2013
Improving HIV care

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

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19 October 2013
Improving HIV care

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

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10 September 2013
Circumcision

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

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15 July 2013
Behaviour change interventions

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

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3 July 2013
Improving HIV care

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

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4 June 2013
Support issues for children & young people

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

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18 April 2013