Identify high-risk snake and scorpion species relevant to their region.
Syndromic approach to snakebite management
Understand the prehospital and emergency management of snakebites and scorpion stings.
Implement evidence-based protocols for antivenom administration and supportive care.
Recognize complications and when to escalate care.
Questions/key issues to be covered:
Is it necessary to identify the species of snake or scorpion for effective treatment?
When and how to administer antivenom, which type?
Tourniquets in snakebites, good or bad?
What is the situation with the availability of antivenom is South Africa?
Understand the global, regional and national situation and impact of diphtheria, measles and rubella outbreaks.
Describe importance of standardized protocols and interpret monitoring and reporting metrics of VPDs during outbreaks.
Describe the nature and clinical management of diphtheria, Measles and Rubella infections.
Detailed knowledge about the potential implications of limited global and national supply of DAT and treatment of patients during diphtheria outbreak.
Apply methods of public health measures for diphtheria, measles and rubella outbreak preparedness and prevention through vaccination.
Building trust and engaging Communities during vaccine preventable disease outbreaks.
Questions/key issues to be covered:
Clinical management of Diphtheria, Measles & Rubella infections
Monitoring and data management
Outbreak preparedness and response
Community engagement during outbreaks
Speakers:
Elizabeth Maseti
EPI Programme Manager
Phuti Mashiane
Assistant Director
Dr Simangele Mthethwa
Vaccine Preventable diseases – National Professional Officer
Ms Sisanda Mtatambi
Pharmaceutical Policy Specialist
Dr Jocelyn Moyes
Medical Epidemiologist
Dr. Kingsley Katleho Mokoena
National Surveillance Officer: Vaccine-preventable Diseases
Ms Nomkhosi Mokoena
Assistant Director: Health Promotion
To provide healthcare workers with support in managing patients with Advanced HIV Disease (AHD) and co-infections
Support clinicians who are interested in the Knowledge Hub online Advanced Clinical Care (ACC) course.
Provide clinical resources and guidelines to support the healthcare professional in the clinic or hospital setting
Provide practical management tools
Questions/key issues to be covered:
Provide a broad overview on use of anti-retroviral medicines in the management of patients with Advanced HIV Disease (AHD).
Speakers:
Dr Dean Solomon
Technical Lead National
Professor WD Francois Venter
Executive Director of Ezintsha at the University of the Witwatersrand
Promote the rational use of medicines;
Improve equitable access and availability of essential medicines;
Promote access to the Standard Treatment Guidelines (STGs) and Essential Medicines List (EML);
Improve the development, management, awareness and uptake of the STGs and EML; and
Expand the stakeholder database and develop lessons learnt to improve communication.
Questions/key issues to be covered:
Access the STGs and EML
Medicine administration through the intrathecal route
Morphine Solution Formulation – what’s new?
Amphotericin B - deoxycholate and liposomal usage
Speakers:
Ms Olwethu Mambinja
Pharmaceutical Policy Specialist
Essential Drugs Programme
Dr Andrew Lofts Gray
Senior Lecturer: Division of Pharmacology, UKZN
Consultant Pharmacist: CAPRISA
Visiting Fellow: Rhodes University
Associate Editor: South African Pharmaceutical Journal
Professor Malcolm Miller
Associate Professor
Senior Specialist: Anaesthesia and Critical Care
Groote Schuur Hospital
• Highlight the progress and challenges in malaria elimination efforts.
• Discuss the role of Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) in malaria prevention and control.
• Explore innovations and best practices in malaria interventions.
• Strengthen multi-sectoral collaborations for sustained malaria elimination
• Provide a platform for policymakers, researchers, and practitioners to exchange insights and experiences.
Questions/key issues to be covered:
• Overview of global and regional malaria trends
• Progress and challenges in South Africa
• Importance of SBCC in malaria control
• New vector control strategies for Malaria Elimination
• Treatment strategies to combat malaria
Speakers:
Ms Aneliswa Cele
Chief Director: Environmental Health and Port Health Services & Acting Chief Director: Communicable Diseases
Ms Ednah Baloyi
Director Malaria and Other Vector Borne Diseases
Dr Taneshka Kruger
Project Manager: University of Pretoria Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control (UP ISMC)
Dr Charlotte Sriruttan-Nel
Pathologist
Dr Givemore Munhenga
Principal Medical Scientist
Pinky Manana
Epidemiologist
Armanda Paula Chuva Levene
Public Health Professional
Video:
Medical
Environmental Health and Port Health, Primary Health Care
- To provide healthcare workers with support in managing patients with Advanced HIV Disease (AHD) and co-infections.
- Support clinicians who are interested in the Knowledge Hub online Advanced Clinical Care (ACC) course.
- Provide clinical resources and guidelines to support the healthcare professional in the clinic or hospital setting.
- Provide practical management tools.
Speakers:
Dr Francesca Conradie
Principal Investigator
Qualifications: MBBCh, Dip HIV Management, DTM&H
- To provide healthcare workers with support in managing patients with Advanced HIV Disease (AHD) and co-infections.
- Support clinicians who are interested in the Knowledge Hub online Advanced Clinical Care (ACC) course.
- Provide clinical resources and guidelines to support the healthcare professional in the clinic or hospital setting.
- Provide practical management tools.
Speakers:
Ms Juliet Houghton
Regional Manager
Qualifications: HIV Nurse Specialist; Social Anthropologist
The Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) training package provides a comprehensive framework for the training of health care providers on SRHR in South Africa.
This training package a demonstration of the Department of Health’s commitment to providing comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services with a rights-based approach, in order to achieve health for all.
Recognizing diversity and integrating SRHR programs is one of the core values of SRHR as it relates to both the public health imperative and the human rights rationale for SRHR programming
This training package is a cornerstone of comprehensive, client-centred, quality approach SRHR skills provision in South Africa, a comprehensive guide for successful sexual and reproductive health and rights programs for all South Africans.
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.
Certificate of Achievement
60
Self-paced
Admin
CHW
Clinical Associates
Emergency Medical Service Practitioners and Technicians
The course has 14 modules. Completing Module 1 is compulsory for everyone who wishes to continue with the SRHR course. Once participants are done with Module 1, they can proceed to ANY module that is most relevant to their work environment, in a non-sequential manner.
Module 1: The SRHR Policy Framework and Cross-Cutting Areas Module 2: Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Comprehensive Sexual Education (CSE) Module 3: Sexual Function and Satisfaction Module 4: Integration of Menstrual Health and Hygiene (MHH) in SRHR Module 5: Modern Contraceptives (Family Planning and Counselling) Module 6: Pre-Natal Care, Safe Delivery and Post-Natal Care Module 7: Safe Abortion and Post-Abortion Care Module 8: Infections in Reproductive Health, including Prevention and Management of HIV and PMTCT, STIs and other Reproductive Tract Infections Module 9: Prevention and Treatment of Sub-Fertility and Infertility Module 10: Genetics and SRHR Module 11: Disability and SRHR Module 12: Breast Cancer and Cancers of the Reproductive System Module 13: Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Module 14: Palliative Care in Relation to in Non-Communicable and Communicable Diseases
Course overall objectives
Develop human rights approach to sexuality and reproductive health needs in a respectful, protected and fulfilled manner.
Provide evidence-informed comprehensive sexuality education across different sectors.
Promote standards-driven approach to adolescent and Youth Friendly SRH Services (AYFS) and sexuality education.
Promote safe practices related to menstrual health and hygiene.
Reduce unmet need for contraception.
Increase access to safe abortion services and treatment of the complications of unsafe abortion.
Raise awareness on intimate partner violence and non-partner sexual violence and exploitation.
Switching Stable 1st and 2nd Line ART Clients to DTG Containing Regimen
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