Background The shortage of human resources for health, and in particular physicians, is one
of the major barriers to achieve universal access to HIV care and treatment. In September …

Objectives Models of care utilizing task shifting and decentralization are needed to support
growing ART programmes. We compared patient outcomes between a doctor‐managed …

Background Robust evidence of the effectiveness of task shifting of antiretroviral therapy
(ART) from doctors to other health workers is scarce. We aimed to assess the effects on …

Objectives: To assess whether community-based care delivered by people living with
HIV/AIDS (PLWAs) could replace clinic-based HIV care. Design: Prospective cluster …

Introduction Human resource shortages are a challenge to the rollout of antiretroviral
therapy (ART) for HIV-infected patients, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Task-shifting has …

Introduction A severe healthcare worker shortage in sub‐Saharan Africa is inhibiting the
expansion of HIV treatment. Task shifting, the transfer of antiretroviral therapy (ART) …

Introduction At least 36 countries are suffering from severe shortages of healthcare workers
and this crisis of human resources in developing countries is a major obstacle to scale-up of …

Objective: To assess the noninferiority of a task-shifting HIV treatment model relying on peer
counselors and nurses compared with a physician-centered model among HIV-1-positive …

Background To address human resource and infrastructure shortages, resource-constrained
countries are being encouraged to shift HIV care to lesser trained care providers and lower …

Background Expanded access to combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) in resource-poor
settings is dependent on task shifting from doctors to other health-care providers. We …