This three week course, organised by the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF), aims to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes of health care service providers needed for the provision of comprehensive care of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWAs).
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.