Fees: US$900 Course Dates: February 28 - March 18, 2011 August 29 - September 16, 2011 |
Target Audience
The course is designed for a multi-disciplinary team of healthcare workers who play an important role in the comprehensive care of HIV infected person(s). These include doctors, nurses, counsellors, pharmacists, clinical officers, laboratory technicians, community health workers etc.
Purpose of the course
By the end of this course, participants should demonstrate knowledge, skills and attitudes requisite to provision of comprehensive care of PLWAs including counselling and testing, preventive therapies, diagnosis and treatment of opportunistic infections, rational use of antiretroviral agents, care of children and women infected with HIV/AIDS and some programmatic issues in HIV/AIDS care.
Overall goal
To develop knowledge, skills and attitudes of health care service providers requisite to the provision of comprehensive care of PLWAs.
Objectives of this course
By the end of the course, trainees will be able to:
- Explain the epidemiology of HIV infection, the dynamics of HIV transmission and its effects on the host
- Understand counselling, HIV-testing and psychosocial support
- Describe the common opportunistic infections seen in HIV-infected persons, their clinical presentations and management.
- Understand common preventive therapies used in the management of HIV-infected adults
- Explain the rational use of antiretroviral agents,
- Describe HIV infection in children, its care and treatment
- Comprehend the risk of mother to child HIV transmission and the interventions used in Kenya to reduce its risks
- Set up comprehensive care for HIV/AIDS patients through the involvement of all multidisciplinary team and other support organizations
- Discuss home based care and palliative care
- Give an overview of the main elements of Commodity Management that will ensure the availability and accessibility of safe, high quality and efficacious ART commodities
- Describe ethical and legal issues in care of PLWAs
- Understand blood safety and the rationale use of blood in the HIV/AIDS era
- Comprehend Post Exposure Prophylaxis and the Universal precautions
- Explain how to monitor and evaluate activities in comprehensive care of PLWHA
Target Audience
The course is designed for a multi-disciplinary team of healthcare workers who play an important role in the comprehensive care of HIV infected person(s). These include doctors, nurses, counsellors, pharmacists, clinical officers, laboratory technicians, community health workers etc.
Purpose of the course
By the end of this course, participants should demonstrate knowledge, skills and attitudes requisite to provision of comprehensive care of PLWAs including counselling and testing, preventive therapies, diagnosis and treatment of opportunistic infections, rational use of antiretroviral agents, care of children and women infected with HIV/AIDS and some programmatic issues in HIV/AIDS care.
Overall goal
To develop knowledge, skills and attitudes of health care service providers requisite to the provision of comprehensive care of PLWAs.
Objectives of this course
By the end of the course, trainees will be able to:
- Explain the epidemiology of HIV infection, the dynamics of HIV transmission and its effects on the host
- Understand counseling, HIV-testing and psychosocial support
- Describe the common opportunistic infections seen in HIV-infected persons, their clinical presentations and management.
- Understand common preventive therapies used in the management of HIV-infected adults
- Explain the rational use of antiretroviral agents,
- Describe HIV infection in children, its care and treatment
- Comprehend the risk of mother to child HIV transmission and the interventions used in Kenya to reduce its risks
- Set up comprehensive care for HIV/AIDS patients through the involvement of all multidisciplinary team and other support organizations
- Discuss home based care and palliative care
- Give an overview of the main elements of Commodity Management that will ensure the availability and accessibility of safe, high quality and efficacious ART commodities
- Describe ethical and legal issues in care of PLWAs
- Understand blood safety and the rationale use of blood in the HIV/AIDS era
- Comprehend Post Exposure Prophylaxis and the Universal precautions
- Explain how to monitor and evaluate activities in comprehensive care of PLWHA
Course Structure
Module 1: Introduction to HIV/AIDS
Module 2: The clinical laboratory in diagnosis and treatment of HIV/AIDS
Module 3: Counselling and Psychological support in HIV/AIDS
Module 4: HIV Associated Conditions
Module 5: Antiretroviral therapy in Adults and adolescents
Module 6: HIV in Children
Module 7: Prevention of Mother-to-Child transmission of HIV
Module 8: Nutrition and HIV
Module 9: Prevention of HIV
Module 10: Setting up HIV/AIDS Treatment, Care and Support programmes
- Comprehensive HIV/AIDS care
- Home and community-based care of people living with HIV/AIDS
- Palliative care
- Legal and Ethical Issues in HIV/AIDS-Human rights, public health and the law in HIV/AIDS
- Stigma and discrimination
- Commodity Management for HIV/AIDS
- Monitoring and Evaluation of HIV/AIDS programmes
