Local manufacture of Alcohol Based Hand Rub (ABHR)
Course Duration: Self paced
Delivery Mode: Online
Eligibility:
- Production: Laboratory and pharmacy staff and any other clinicians with interest
- Quality control: Health facility leadership nominees-preferably Infection Prevention/WASH leads (the same applies to district level selections)
Course availability: Ongoing
Overview
The course on Local manufacture of Alcohol Based Hand Rub (ABHR) is designed to equip health facility staff with the skills to locally produce ABHR with a goal to increase its access and availability within healthcare facilities to contribute to hand hygiene compliance.
This course equips health workers with knowledge and skills on the modalities of local manufacture of ABHR, its contribution to hand hygiene compliance and reduction of healthcare associated infections.
The content will be covered in eight modules.
Course Aim
The course aims to build the capacity of healthcare workers by equipping them with skills for local production of ABHR.
Format
This is an online modular training. It is self-paced. Each week will be allocated three modules and it is expected that all modular assessments will be completed in the same week. There will be weekly introductory interactive video conferencing tutorials to orient participants on the week’s modules.
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