 Improving access to appropriate care for people living with HIV through the development and dissemination of an ARV training manual for nurses.
Africaid arrived in South Africa in January 2004, when the national ‘roll out’ of Antiretoviral drugs (ARVs) was imminent. In a country with such staggering need for these drugs, yet limited man-power on the ground, nurses had an inevitably huge role to play in the safe, effective delivery of ARVs to people with HIV.
Yet this required training for the nurses. We wrote and piloted an ARV training manual for nurses, which has since been used not only by nurses but by groups of doctors, pharmacists, counselors and other groups working with ARVs.
Africaid was then invited to present this work at the XV International AIDS Conference 2004 in Bangkok: "Capacitating Nurses and Health Care Workers to Meet WHO’s 3 by 5 Goal for the Provision of ARVs". This invitation was forwarded to the Enhancing Care Initiative, University of Kwa Zulu Natal, and members of that department kindly presented our work at the conference.
The manual has now been published on NAM’s internationally acclaimed website www.aidsmap.com and is also available on a CDRom, thanks to AME Africa, free of charge to those working in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Maruva Trust is working with HIV positive children to develop support materials for their HIV positive peers around the world.