Nursing and midwifery regulation and HIV scale-up: Establishing a baseline in east, central and southern Africa

Journal of the International AIDS Society

Volumn 16, Issue , 2013, Pages

  McCarthy, Carey F ^a   Voss, Joachim ^b   Verani, Andre R ^a   Vidot, Peggy ^c   Salmon, Marla E ^b   Riley, Patricia L ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Commonwealth Secretariat ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AIDS; HIV; Human resources for health; Nurse initiated ART; Pre service; Scale up; Task sharing; Task shifting

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; AFRICA; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AFRICA; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LICENSING; MIDWIFE; MIDWIFERY EDUCATION; NURSING; NURSING EDUCATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; REGISTRATION; SCALE UP; SCOPE OF PRACTICE; SOUTH AFRICA; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN RESOURCES FOR HEALTH; METHODOLOGY; NURSE-INITIATED ART; PRE-SERVICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCALE-UP; STANDARD; TASK SHARING; TASK SHIFTING;

AIDS; HIV; HUMAN RESOURCES FOR HEALTH; NURSE-INITIATED ART; PRE-SERVICE; SCALE-UP; TASK SHARING; TASK SHIFTING;

AFRICA, CENTRAL; AFRICA, EASTERN; AFRICA, SOUTHERN; HEALTH POLICY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MIDWIFERY; NURSING; QUESTIONNAIRES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84879174298     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7448/IAS.16.1.18051     Document Type: Article

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