ZIMBABWE: Nurses step up to initiate HIV treatment

ZIMBABWE: Nurses step up to initiate HIV treatment:

HARARE, 16 October 2012 (IRIN) - Faced with the ambitious target of reaching 85 percent of people in need of HIV treatment by the end of 2012, the Zimbabwean government has announced that nurses will be trained to prescribe and manage antiretroviral (ARV) drug treatment.