Nurse Practitioners, HIV/AIDS, and Nursing in Resource-Limited Settings

HIV/AIDS affects the lives of everyone who lives in sub-Saharan Africa. In the past 3.5 years, access to free antiretroviral therapy has increased dramatically as a result of the support of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Health care must now include caring for those who will live with HIV/AIDS as well as those for whom HIV/AIDS is a terminal illness. This article discusses the contribution of nurse practitioners to the redesign of nurses' work with HIV1 patients in sub-Africa, especially Uganda. Strategies currently being implemented and those planned for the future to increase access to care and improve the quality of nursing care that patients receive are discussed.