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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.

Pregnancy and vertical transmission

Malawi plans 'test and treat' approach for pregnant women to cut mother-to-child HIV transmission

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22 July 2010
PrEP policies & guidelines

Bill Gates maps the way to more effective HIV prevention

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21 July 2010
Circumcision

Rolling out male circumcision requires community engagement, task shifting and streamlined procedures

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21 July 2010
Task shifting

Partners in Health encourages better payment and training of community healthcare workers, reform of “clinical hierarchy”

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7 January 2010
Task shifting

Clinical officers and nurses make similar decisions to physicians on starting antiretroviral therapy in rural Uganda

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3 September 2009
Task shifting

Uganda survey shows major ART training gaps for non-physicians

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1 September 2009
Retention & linkage to care

Ten steps to reducing loss to follow up

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11 August 2009
Improving HIV care

Caring for the caregivers in the face of HIV and TB: a clinical review (part two)

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29 January 2009
Improving HIV care

Caring for the caregivers in the face of HIV and TB: a clinical review (part one)

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22 January 2009
Task shifting

Improving human resources for health while scaling up ARV access in Ethiopia and Malawi

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9 September 2008
Task shifting

Task shifting

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5 September 2008
Task shifting

Task shifting: successes from Mozambique and Rwanda

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5 September 2008
Retention & linkage to care

A follow-up on follow-up: shifting to a community-based response to improve retention in care

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31 August 2007
Task shifting

Professional roles and ARV provision

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11 September 2003