Improve the development, management, awareness and uptake of the STGs and EML;
Improve understanding of HTA methodology and changes to the STGs and EML;
Expand the stakeholder database and develop lessons learned to improve communication;
Improve equitable access and availability of essential medicines; and
Promote the rational use of medicine.
Speakers:
Ms Maropeng Rapetsoa
Pharmaceutical Policy Specialist
Essential Drugs Programme
Professor Marc Blockman
Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Medicines Information; Managing Editor: South African Medicines Formulary; Medical Specialist and Professor: Clinical Pharmacology
Dr Andrew Lofts Gray
Senior Lecturer:Division of Pharmacology, UKZN
Consultant Pharmacist: CAPRISA
Visiting Fellow: Rhodes University
Associate Editor: South African Pharmaceutical Journal
Capacity Building : Stakeholders on the interpretation of Early Warning Signs for Extreme Weather events
Information sharing: Relevant research with the stakeholders for strengthening evident based decision making towards adaptation to Climate Change Impacts.
Benchmarking : Best practices from other affected provinces with stakeholders on Climate Change response can be strengthened through benchmarking.
Capacity Building: Stakeholders on the department’s Climate Change and Health Adaptation and Mitigation interventions.
- 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.
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.