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ZAMBIA: Better health comes in containers

New technologies are helping Zambia make the most of its scarce health workers and laboratories in the fight against tuberculosis (TB), and showing that there may be more to a container than meets the eye.

Published
27 January 2011
From
IRIN Plus News
Delivery of care
2010: 30 nurses die of AIDS in Malawi

Nurses Organization for Nurses and Midwives (NONM)-Malawi has revealed that about 30 nurses died of AIDS related illness in 2010.

Published
21 January 2011
From
Africa News
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Self-forming patient groups in Mozambique succesfully distribute ARVs, monitor treatment

Self-forming groups of patients which distribute antiretroviral drugs to those on treatment have proved highly successful in retaining patients in care in Mozambique, and drastically reduced the need

Published
13 January 2011
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Delivery of care
Scale up of treatment linked to rise in loss to follow-up, but those in care continue to do well

Low death rates and high rates of viral load suppression have been sustained throughout the seven years of scale-up in a community-based antiretroviral treatment service in a poor

Published
05 January 2011
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Task shifting
SOUTH AFRICA: Nurses step into ART breach

At Malvern Clinic, a primary healthcare facility serving an impoverished suburb east of Johannesburg's city centre, every seat was taken on a recent Monday morning.

Published
15 December 2010
From
IRIN Plus News
Promoting HIV testing
HIV screening outside specialist settings is feasible, acceptable and effective in UK

The universal offer of a HIV test in UK general practice and hospital settings is highly feasible and acceptable to patients, researchers have concluded. Moreover,

Published
08 December 2010
By
Roger Pebody
Health services and systems
The whether forecast: HIV services in the cutback era

Some HIV experts are wondering not what our services will look like in the future but in some areas, whether there will be any HIV-specific services at all.

Published
02 December 2010
From
HIV treatment update
Delivery of care
Bridging the divide: HIV and health systems

This edition reports on the debate over how HIV programmes can contribute to health system strengthening and in particular, how better integration can be achieved.

Published
26 November 2010
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HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
Adherence
Mobile phone messages improve adherence and HIV control in Kenyan trial

A text message from a clinic each week resulted in better adherence and a higher level of viral load suppression among people with HIV after starting antiretroviral

Published
10 November 2010
By
Keith Alcorn
Delivery of care
Nurse attitudes, clinic experience, key to improving care and retention in ARV programmes

People with HIV can receive excellent care and adhere well to antiretroviral treatment despite staff and resource shortages, but the attitudes and performance of nurses and patients’ experiences

Published
28 October 2010
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
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