Health
Why Uganda must recognise nurses for more than a decade of HIV care – The Conversation CA
The giant leap in the number of people accessing HIV treatment would not have been possible without task shifting from medical doctors to less-specialised cadres…
In the years after the slim disease or HIV was first recognised in southwestern Uganda in 1982, access to treatment was for a privileged few. At the time, only a handful of clinics such as the Joint Clinical Research Centre could offer any relief for those living with HIV. Because only a small number of patients could afford the prohibitive fees for HIV services, care was almost entirely provided by medical doctors.
Even when antiretroviral medicines such as AZT became available 14 years later…
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