Healthefoundation HIV education and prevention training

Kickoff meeting in Banga, Cameroon, December 2008

HIV[e]Education

The aim of HIV[e]Education is to provide healthcare workers with complete and updated information on all aspects of treatment and care for patients with HIV/AIDS.

All modules are written by world renowned experts in the field. In each country, the Ministry of Health is asked to provide a country-specific epidemiology module. This informs participants about the local HIV/AIDS epidemic; specific prevention measures; and testing and therapy guidelines. Country-specific clinical cases are written with the assistance of local clinicians and reflect local resources and situations.

Client-initiated HIV testing and counseling, also known as voluntary counseling and testing (VCT), has been common practice for over 20 years. In 2007, WHO and UNAIDS issued guidelines on provider-initiated HIV testing and counseling (PITC) in health facilities to increase early HIV diagnosis and improve access to HIV health services. For this reason, the module ‘VCT and prevention’ of HIV[e]Education was replaced in 2009 by the module ‘Counseling and Testing services’, written by Dr. Eric van Praag. This new module focuses more on the provider-initiated counseling.  Also in 2009, a module on vaccines, by Professor Jaap Goudsmit, was added to the course.

The following modules were finished and added to the program in 2010:  HIV and the Aging Patient by Professor Bernard Hirschel and Dr. Victor Valcour; and, a special module about HIV prevention and prevention methods by Myron Cohen has been developed and added to the course.

Scientific Advisory Board

Pedro Cahn, Buenos Aires University Medical School, Argentina
Scott Hammer, Columbia University, New York, USA
Elly Katabira, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Michel Kazatchkine, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria, Geneva, Switzerland
Catherine Peckham, University College London, UK
Jos Perriens, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Stephano Vella, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy

Modules & Authors

Epidemiology
Jesus Garcia Calleja, HIV/AIDS Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Prevention of HIV
Myron S. Cohen, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA

Counseling and Testing Services
Eric van Praag, Family Health International, Tanzania

Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission
Marie-Louise Newell, University College London Institute of Child Health, United Kingdom

Principles of Antiretroviral Therapy
Joep M.A. Lange, Department of Internal Medicine and Department of Global Health, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Initiation of Antiretroviral Therapy
Ferdinand W.N.M. Wit, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Adherence Importance and Support
Gerald Friedland, AIDS Program, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, USA

Clinical Monitoring of the HIV-Infected Patient
Scott Hammer, Division of Infectious Diseases, Columbia University, New York, USA

Pediatric HIV Infection
E.G. Hermione Lyall, Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom

Opportunistic Infections
John G. Bartlett, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA

HIV-TB Co-infection and Treatment

Anton L. Pozniak, HIV and Tuberculosis Services, St. Stephen's Centre, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Palliative Care and HIV/AIDS
Lydia Mpanga Sebuyira, Hospice Africa, Kampala, Uganda

Women and HIV
Helen Reese, Reproductive Health & HIV Reaserch Unit (RHRU), School of Clinical Medicine, University of Witwaterstrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Growing Old with HIV
Bernard Hirschel, Division of Infectious Diseases, Geneva University Hospital and Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland; and Victor Valcour, Memory and Aging Center, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), USA

Substance Abuse and Global AIDS
R. Douglas Bruce, AIDS Program, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, USA

Mental Health and HIV/AIDS
Annemiek Schadé, HIV/AIDS Mental Health Expert Centre and Treatment Team, SBG/VUMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Global Initiative on Psychiatry (GIP)

Good Clinical Practice
Remko van Leeuwen, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Antiretroviral Drug Interactions
David Burger, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, The Netherlands

Antiretroviral Drug Toxicity
Peter Reiss, Department of Internal Medicine and Department of Global Health, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Antiretroviral Drug Resistance
M.A. Wainberg, McGill University AIDS Centre, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Laboratory Diagnostics and Monitoring
Philippe van de Perre, Laboratory of Bacteriology-Virology, CHRU Arnaud de Villeneuve, Montpellier, France

Natural History and Pathogenesis of HIV
Hanneke Schuitemaker, Crucell Holland B.V., Leiden, and Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

HIV Vaccines
Jaap Goudsmit, Crucell Holland B.V., Leiden, and Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The Clinical Pharmacist's Role
Francis Kalemeera, Aids Treatment Information Centre (ATIC), IDI, Kampala, Uganda