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In the TB-Speed project, trained nurses produced valid Xpert Ultra results in 99.6% to 100% of child samples and returned hospital results within three hours far more often than laboratories.
Task-sharing therapy to lay community workers is the backbone of WHO's plan for closing the treatment gap. A synthesis of 28 studies asks what the model costs the workers themselves.
A Lancet Global Health model projects that barring women from nursing and midwifery training could cut maternal care-seeking to a third of current levels and raise the maternal mortality ratio 29% to 41% by 2035.
A study of 1,331 physicians put violence ahead of pay. Of 32 doctors who had already emigrated, two were considering coming back — and none of the women were.
IARC and WHO put five modules on screening and precancer management online. The 90-70-90 targets they support depend on health workers who can act on a positive test.