Strengthening the health workforce to support integration of HIV and noncommunicable disease services in sub-Saharan Africa.

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The successful expansion of HIV services in sub-Saharan Africa has been a signature achievement of global public health. This article explores health workforce-related lessons from HIV scale-up, their implications for integrating noncommunicable disease (NCD) services into HIV programs, ways to ensure that healthcare workers have the knowledge, skills, resources, and enabling environment they need to provide comprehensive integrated HIV/NCD services, and discussion of a priority research agenda.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): AIDS

Title: AIDS (London, England)

Publisher: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

ISSN (Electronic): 1473-5571

ISSN (Print): 0269-9370

Publication date (Electronic): Jul 01 2018

Volume: 32 Suppl 1

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[1 ] ICAP at Columbia University.

[2 ] Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

[3 ] Department of Population and Family Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, USA.

[4 ] ICAP at Columbia University, Nairobi, Kenya.

[5 ] School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

[6 ] College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

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Publisher Item ID: 00002030-201807011-00006

DOI: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000001895

PubMed ID: 29952790

SO-VID: 502efc96-2fc7-41b5-b77e-27133dc15af3

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