Differentiated models of care (DMOC) are used to make antiretroviral therapy (ART) accessible to people living with HIV (PLHIV). In Malawi, Lighthouse Trust has piloted various DMOCs aimed at providing quality care while reducing personal and logistical
National AIDS Control Program PEPFAR: President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief PLWH: People living with HIV PrEP: Pre-exposure prophylaxis STEP: Self-Testing Education and Promotion TACAIDS: Tanzania Commission for AIDs USAID: United States Agency for International Development ...
While I was on orientation, our Clinical Nurse Specialist told me that there were times that I needed to step back and think about how I come off to some people. Apparently when I get overwhelmed, I get snippy and abrasive. I had never really stepped back to look at that and when I ...
Consultant for the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (since 2006); co-trainer for the international World Health Organization programme “Skills for change” (since 1995); participant in the meetings of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (Vienna) (2002-2008); participa...
Once someone is in hospital, all kinds of helpful aids and routines, like their own electric wheelchair, intermittent catheters or bowel irrigation can be stripped away, causing problems and complications, but that shouldn’t be the case. Once a person is in bed, they are also at risk of ...
A 23-year-old client in the AIDS clinic asks the nurse what he should do for the multiple small, painless, purplish-brown spots on his right leg and ankle. The nurse should instruct the client to 1. clean the spots carefully with soap and warm water twice a week and cover them with ...
My first visit was to a young man dying of AIDS. His chart showed he had been a patient for only a short time and was near death. As I drove to his house I wondered what I could do for him. Had he gone to college? What kind of work had he done? Had he been successful? Did...
A May 2020 study published by Amfar, the Foundation for Aids Research, found that Black counties made up over half of the COVID-19 cases, and close to 60% of all COVID-19-related deaths. "The brunt of the COVID-19 epidemic is not going to be borne equally on all communities," ...
In addition, the Sauti Project was using the “National Training for HIV Prevention using HIV Self Testing” manual developed by the National AIDS Control Program (NACP) as part of the national HIVST demonstration project. We reviewed the Engaging Men at the Community Level and National Training ...
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