Are you a fresh University student in health care looking for training opportunities? Your days of searching could come to an end with the call from Makerere Joint AIDS Program (MJAP) who on 23rd April 2021 launched the Education for Interprofessional HIV Service Delivery in Uganda (EIPHIV Uganda) for the 2021 May-June applications open to all health professionals in HIV Care.
The EIPHIV Uganda, according to a press statement, is a clinical E-Learning Platform for HIV health providers that, enables retooling of in-service and prepares pre-service health workers for new models of interprofessional HIV service
delivery, aimed at improving patient outcomes.
The trainings have been tailored for healthcare professionals who fall under the category of Frontline
health HIV care professionals between 22-45 years and Health workers currently working in an HIV
clinical setting who must be registered with a relevant body (for Medical, Pharmacy, Laboratory, Nursing
and other paramedical fields) and have access to a smartphone or laptop to support online learning
sessions.
The sessions are entirely facilitated online due to the new normal allowing trainees to learn from anywhere.
The EIPHIV Uganda Training Coordinator, Dr. Kimera Isaac said that about 450 health professionals will have gone through the training between May and July with focus on Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART), Adherence and Evaluation of Virologic Failure, End of Life Care for a Patient with HIV, Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis and Care for key and priority populations, Health System Building Blocks: Delivering High Quality Care to Patients with HIV.
EIPHIV Uganda is part of the general initiative by STRIPE HIV which is currently ongoing in 30 universities in Africa and is funded by the University of California San-Francisco.
For more information: Visit: https://linktr.ee/mjapug Or Contact ikimera@mjap.mak.ac.ug Or Call: 0417 715 800
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