Manuals
Manuals
 | Family Health international (FHi) is proud to present Adherence Support Worker Training: Facilitator’s Guide. this guide is one component of a training curriculum for asWs that also includes a participant’s guide and PowerPoint presentations. Download this publication |
| The primary audience for this training is AIDS programme managers – individuals who have the authority and primary responsibility for managing national AIDS programmes. The secondary audience includes people who can influence decision-making about the programme. Among these may be people in the office of the head of state responsible for interministerial coordination of AIDS activities; people in the Ministry of Health responsible for prevention, health education and health care; staff of other ministries such as education and planning; members of national and provincial AIDS coordinating committees including PLHA group representatives; and people working at the national level in international organizations that support national programmes. This training course will be repeated periodically to take account of the turnover of people in these key positions. The training course will initially be provided at the regional level, and may then be tailored to national needs and provided within countries, for state or provincial AIDS programme managers. Download this publication |
| This course is meant primarily for district-level surveillance officers. As a participant, you should have a basic medical understanding of HIV/AIDS and public health surveillance before taking the course. Download this publication |
| The two overriding goals of national AIDS programmes are to reduce the transmission of HIV and to care for and mitigate the impact of HIV on those already infected. Achieving these goals requires an understanding of the extent of prevalence of HIV infection and also where it is spreading. Download this publication |
| Policy plays an essential role in guiding an effective response to HIV and AIDS. Governments use policy to state their views on a particular issue and declare the approach they will take to resolve or respond to that issue. Organizations use policy to explain to their employees the modalities of executing their work as well as norms of behaviour. Community groups use policy to advocate for what the community needs. Download this publication |
| An essential part of HIV programme planning and management is to determine the programme’s priorities and the approaches it will adopt to achieve its outcomes of HIV prevention, care and treatment. Download this publication |
| Different HIV epidemics require different approaches. However, regardless of the epidemic stage, it is usually more efficient to target specific populations with HIV prevention and care programmes and services. This does not mean that the impact of the epidemic is restricted to these populations. Download this publication |
| In Modules 3 and 4, we worked on setting priorities for interventions with populations most affected by HIV. In this module, we will build on that work and set some initial targets for programmes. Download this publication |
| Sexual transmission of HIV is a key driving force behind many of the HIV epidemics in Asia. This is fuelled by high levels of other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the affected populations. Even in epidemics primarily driven by injecting drug use, sexual transmission is a factor in the spread of HIV from the drug user population to other populations. Reducing sexual transmission of HIV and other STIs is not a simple matter of increasing the knowledge and awareness of individuals at risk. There are complex issues of power, poverty, economics and marginalization that need to be dealt with if safer sexual behaviours are to be adopted and sustained. Download this publication |
