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Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
Screening can reduce number of patients in need of a doctor's time in busy South African clinic

Screening patients to identify those who are stable on treatment in a high-volume, large, urban, public-sector clinic in Johannesburg, South Africa has the potential to reduce total doctor

Published
29 January 2013
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Tuberculosis and HIV
HIV and TB in Practice for nurses: Starting ART for treatment and prevention in people with active TB and HIV

This article provides information for nurses on starting HIV treatment for people with HIV and active TB.

Published
29 November 2012
From
HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
Task shifting
ZIMBABWE: Nurses step up to initiate HIV treatment

HARARE, 16 October 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - Faced with the ambitious target of reaching 85 percent of people in need of HIV treatment by the end of 2012, the Zimbabwean government has announced that nurses will be trained to prescribe and manage antiretroviral (ARV) drug treatment.

Published
17 October 2012
From
IRIN Plus News
Task shifting
Zimbabwe: 'Nurses Now Allowed to Put Patients On ART'

NURSES can now put HIV-positive patients on antiretroviral drugs, a task that was previously reserved for doctors.

Published
16 August 2012
From
AllAfrica
Task shifting
Nurses As Effective As Doctors In Treatment Of HIV Patients

Nurse-centred care of HIV patients can be just as safe and effective as care delivered by doctors and has a number of specific health benefits, according to a new study led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the University of Cape Town (UCT).

Published
15 August 2012
From
HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
PEPFAR Launches Labs For Life with Partners

The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), led by the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator in the U.S. Department of State, and Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD), a leading global medical technology company, today announced Labs for Life, a new collaboration to help strengthen healthcare and laboratory systems in the developing world along with U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Published
27 July 2012
From
US State Department
Circumcision
Circumcision taking off in several African countries, but more task-shifting needed

Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) programmes are expanding in several African countries and in a couple of locations have almost reached saturation point, with most of the

Published
24 July 2012
By
Gus Cairns
TB diagnosis
HIV and TB in Practice for nurses: TB symptom screening and linking to diagnosis and care

This edition looks at the practicalities of symptom screening and keeping track of patients during the diagnostic process.

Published
16 July 2012
From
HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
TB diagnosis
HIV and TB in Practice for nurses: active TB case finding

The role of nurses and community health workers in the identification of TB in people living with HIV and in the wider community.

Published
09 July 2012
From
HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
TB prevention
HIV and TB in Practice for nurses: cotrimoxazole prophylaxis

Cotrimoxazole prophylaxis is the use of a common antiobiotic to prevent a range of infections that commonly affect people living with HIV.

Published
23 June 2012
From
HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
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