Manuals and Toolkits

Manuals and Toolkits

VMMC Online Training Hub

The VMMC Online Training Hub (OTH) is an e-learning platform that provides classes, resources, and communities of practice to help clinicians advance their skills and knowledge around performing voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC). The OTH covers the didactic, theoretical VMMC information traditionally learned through in-person workshops. With the OTH, learners complete and pass the online course before proceeding to the clinical practical.

Vaccinator's Manual 2012

The aim of the manual is to update EPI guidelines to include all the changes since the third edition of the Vaccinators Manual (2008). It further aims to provide policy guidelines, set standards on immunization practices and address practical issues that the vaccinator normally faces.

Towards eliminating avoidable harm in health care

Today, patient harm due to unsafe care is a large and growing global public health challenge and is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide. Most of this patient harm is avoidable. As countries strive to achieve universal health coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals, the beneficial effects of improved access to health services can be undermined by unsafe care. Patient safety incidents can cause death and disability, and suffering for victims and their families.

Primary Health Care (PHC) Laboratory Handbook

The aim of this toolkit is to entrench a common integrated approach to enhance the quality of PHC services and the standardization of clinic-laboratory processes. It further aims to ensure cost effective laboratory service utilization and finally to provide standardized systems and procedures for requesting laboratory tests, related specimen collection materials and for access to results.

Male Circumcision: Situation Analysis Toolkit

This toolkit focuses on facilitating  partnerships  and  team-building  among  stakeholders,  thus  encouraging  joint ownership and responsibility for the work in the future, encouraging stakeholder participation in the process, thus increasing the quality of the in-formation acquired and the acceptability of the results and reinforcing  in-country  capacities  for  situation  analysis  through  both  experience  with  the process and the provision of training materials.

Integrated National Condom Training Curriculum

The overall purpose of the development of a National Training Program is to build capacity and to standardize condom program training in South Africa. It further aims to develop knowledge, skills and attitudes on how to communicate, counsel and assess the risk of clients as well as to counsel on the correct use of male and female condoms.

Integrated Clinical Services Management Manual

Integrated Clinical Service Management (ICRM) aims to assist facilities to achieve compliance with Domain 2 of the ‘National Core Standards’ as well as seven of the 32 Ideal Clinic sub-components and 55 indicators.  The manual provides both a theoretical perspective on all components of the ICSM manual as well as practical steps for the implementation of ICSM.
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Switching Stable 1st and 2nd Line ART Clients to DTG Containing Regimen

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