Basic HIV Course for Health Care Professionals
The Basic HIV Course for Health Care Professionals is designed to equip health care professionals with the knowledge necessary to initiate and manage patients on ART. The interactive online curriculum consists of seven modules, which focus on diagnosis, care, treatment, and management of HIV, TB and STI patients. The goal of the training is to enhance and strengthen the role of health care professionals in providing quality care to patients infected with HIV and other comorbidities.
The course is conducted using the following teaching and learning methods:
- Lectures
- Case studies
- Videos
This curriculum includes clinical resources to support the health care professional in the clinic or hospital setting.
You will need a device (cellphone, tablet, laptop, and/or desktop) to access the course.
Accessing the course materials and recorded lectures online is free as the Knowledge Hub has been zero rated. An initial internet connection is required to connect to the KH.
WHAT IS HIV?
1.1. The Human Immunodeficiency Virus and its life cycle
1.1. Knowledge check
1.2. HIV transmission
1.2. Knowledge check
1.3. Stages of infection
PREVENTION OF HIV AND AIDS
2.1. Prevention measures
2.1. Knowledge check
2.2. Managing exposure to HIV
DIAGNOSIS
3.1. HIV Testing Services
3.2. HIV testing
3.2. Knowledge check
3.3. HIV clinical staging
ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY
4.1. What is antiretroviral therapy?
4.1. Knowledge check
4.2. Initiating ART
4.2. Knowledge check
4.3. VL monitoring, switching to TLD, and managing an elevated VL
4.4. Second-line ART
4.4. Knowledge check
4.5. Stigma and discrimination
4.6. ARV resistance
HIV AND OTHER DISEASES
5.1. Preventing and managing common opportunistic infections
5.1. Knowledge check
5.2. Managing common sexually transmitted infections
5.2. Knowledge check
5.3. HIV and airborne infections
5.3. Knowledge check
5.4. TB screening and TB preventive therapy
5.5. Managing TB in adults
5.5. Knowledge check
5.6. Managing TB in children
5.6. Knowledge check
5.7. HIV and non-communicable comorbidities
MOTHERS AND CHILDREN
6.1. Contraceptives and HIV
6.1. Knowledge check
6.2. Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT)
6.2. Knowledge check
6.3. Paediatric HIV
NUTRITION
7.1. Nutrition in the context of HIV
until
31 December 2023 - 12:00 am