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Health problems
HIV and TB in Practice for nurses: non-communicable diseases, HIV and TB

Conditions such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes in low- and middle-income countries, and awareness of these conditions in people living with HIV and/or TB.

Published
18 May 2012
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HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
TB services
HIV and TB in Practice for nurses: integration and decentralisation

The drive towards decentralisation and integration of HIV services from the point of view of those delivering those services, nurses and community health workers.

Published
17 April 2012
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HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
Improved health, wish for normal life, main reason for loss to follow-up in Ugandan HIV patients

Wanting to return to a ‘normal’ life after having experienced an improvement in health on HIV treatment was the key reason for loss to follow-up of three-quarters

Published
17 April 2012
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Tuberculosis and HIV
HIV and TB in Practice for nurses

This is the first of a special monthly edition of HATiP for nurses and other health care workers involved in task-shifting in sub-Saharan Africa.

Published
03 February 2012
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HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
Health services and systems
The Manchester Malawian medic myth

Are there more doctors from Malawi in the British city of Manchester than there are in Malawi itself? Many people have made this claim - including the authors of an international study of health workers, and the head of Malawi's main nursing union.

Published
15 January 2012
From
BBC Health
Circumcision
Task shifting for male medical circumcision safe: international review

With proper training and supervision task shifting of medical male circumcision to non-physician clinicians in Africa can be done safely, according to researchers in South Africa and North

Published
06 January 2012
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Circumcision
Agnes Binagwahois: Male circumcision and the path to an AIDS-free generation

Whereas a surgical circumcision can take 20 minutes per patient, the PrePex non-surgical device reduces procedure time to 3 minutes, meaning we can circumcise more men faster and without compromising their safety or the device’s effectiveness.

Published
13 December 2011
From
Washington Post
Task shifting
South Africa loses $1.4 billion training doctors who emigrated

South Africa, the nation with the highest number of people living with HIV/AIDS, has spent more than $1.4 billion training doctors, only to see them emigrate overseas for jobs. It's part of a massive flow of expertise from from poor and developing countries to rich nations such as the United States, Canada, Britain and Australia.

Published
26 November 2011
From
Los Angeles Times
Task shifting
Operational research: diagnostics and task-shifting

Widespread introduction of point-of-care (POC) CD4 cell tests that don’t require a laboratory technician but can be performed onsite by a nurse, providing results in

Published
29 July 2011
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HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
Task shifting
Task-shifting of HIV care to nurses: successes, but problems to watch out for

“A nurse-led service can deliver ART care as effectively as a doctor-driven one, and even improves quality of care, but this pragmatic trial did not result in

Published
21 July 2011
By
Theo Smart
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