care systems to provide care and treatment to people
living with HIV/AIDS. What is interesting from the
perspective of interprofessional team building is that
task shifting involves a major change in interprofessional
relationships between all providers working in
outpatient clinics that provide anti-retroviral medications
(ARVs) to AIDS patients in many countries
in sub-Saharan Africa. Before task shifting, physicians
saw all patients. With task shifting, nurses take
on the role of re-prescribing ARVs for stable patients
while physicians continue to see patients initially, but