The ART Access pharmacy sensitization course

Course Duration: Self paced
Delivery Mode: Online
Eligibility: Pharmacy healthcare workers
Course availability: Restricted to health workers Sponsored by Ugandan Academy for health innovations

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Overview

The ART Access pharmacy sensitization course is designed to help health workers at local pharmacy levels to care for HIV positive patients who are on treatment and have been subjected to challenges of overcrowding and delays in their point of care service station. This course equips health workers with knowledge and skills to dispense ARVs, monitoring patients on ARVs, perform proper referral linkage, identify opportunistic infections and provide counselling in HIV.

Course Aim

The course aims to build the capacity of pharmacy healthcare workers by equipping them with basic up-to-date knowledge in HIV care.

Format

A modular course with illustrative learning sessions and discussions.

Module 1

Referral and Linkage, Principles of ART, Management of Opportunistic Infections

Module 2

Adherence to ART, Best Counselling Skills in HIV Management, Monitoring Patients on ART


Facilitators
Trainers will include a team of experts from IDI, cutting across different disciplines of the course.

At a glance

Duration
Self paced

Sessions
2

Discussion forums
Yes

live tutorials
Yes

Quiz
1

Certification
Yes

Pass mark
70%

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