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Once thought impossible, the dedication and efforts of countless international organizations and individuals have made HIV/AIDS therapy available in developing nations where it is estimated 90% of global cases are present. Despite the vastly improved access to antiretroviral therapy (ART), in 2007 World Health Organization (WHO) estimates indicated only 31% of those infected in low- and middle income countries had accessed HIV/AIDS therapy [1, 2, 3]. Reduced human resources are a key barrier to the provision of HIV care in resource limited settings. Contributing factors include a limited supply of new healthcare workers coming into the workforce, inadequate human resource management systems for recruitment, deployment and retention, attrition due to HIV/AIDS, limited career and professional opportunities, and increasing rates of international migration [1, 4, 5]. In response to these shortages, and to maximize available human resources, the World Health Organization (WHO) published guidelines related to task-shifting, the strategy of moving tasks from highly qualified health workers to workers with shorter duration training needs. Alongside task-shifting, the WHO stresses the need for efforts to increase the overall number of trained healthcare workers and to establish appropriate quality assurance mechanisms to evaluate and monitor clinical outcomes.
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Willig, M. et al. (2011). DESIGN AND PROCESS DEVELOPMENT FOR SMART PHONE MEDICATION DOSING SUPPORT SYSTEM AND EDUCATIONAL PLATFORM IN HIV/AIDS-TB PROGRAMS IN ZAMBIA. In: Suh, S., Gurupur, V., Tanik, M. (eds) Biomedical Engineering. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0116-2_3
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