This module aimed to equip cadres of HIV working in health facilities(data managers) with skills ,Knowledge and attitudes regarding the use of key indicators definition linked to HIV program through reporting of data with high quality. It will focus on New indicator in HIV Program, indicators linked to ART, Reporting form of HIV program, and strategies to address the data quality in HIV related data

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This course discusses how to conduct and offer recency testing services to eligible participants. It will equip the participants with new competences in the understanding and the use of HIV recency testing in the routine HIV prevention, care and treatment services. The participant will learn what recency testing means, the eligibility criteria for HIV recency testing, pre-test counselling for recency, the process of getting clients’ consent for recency testing, the counselling messages to communicate to those who have undergone HIV recency testing and how to document the results of recency testing.




This module gives you an overview of 2020 Rwanda National Guidelines and the updates contained therein. The module cues you to what is expected of you to understand about new interventions in the field of HIV/AIDS and to be able to deliver as a health professional in the field. This module will be provided to Health care providers working in HIV services. It will focus on HIV prevention and HIV care and treatment. Within HIV prevention section, there will be a deep description of HIV testing in Rwanda, PMTCT,Pre-Exposure prophylaxis and Voluntary male circumcision. With regards to Care and treatment section, health care providers will gain more insights on DSDM,antiretroviral therapy among children, adolescents and adults, monitoring of antiretroviral therapy outcomes and management of treatment failure.

 


PEPFAR and HIVQUAL consider an HIV quality improvement projects as the main vehicles by which a facility makes incremental process improvements to its various care elements and changes its processes and systems of care[1]. Quality Improvement (QI) is the means by which activities are routinely evaluated to check whether services offered by the multidisciplinary team are following established guidelines and standard operating procedures (SOPs). QI should be a routine, ongoing part of the normal functioning of health facilities. Therefore, QI should incorporate procedures in which all staff at all levels — not just supervisors — are involved[2]. A good CQI program offer  a range of benefits including  a) Improved patient health outcomes , b) Improved efficiency of managerial and clinical processes by  reducing  waste and costs associated with system failures and redundancy, C) Avoided costs associated with process failures, errors, and poor outcomes by Streamlining  reliable processes which are less expensive to maintain, D) Proactive processes that recognize and solve problems before they occur ensure that systems of care are reliable and predictable and  E) Improved communication with resources that are internal and external to an organization, such as, funders, civic and community organizations.





Every two years, HIV guidelines are reviewed and updated in accordance with recent national and international discoveries.  This course is the HIV Guidelines, 2018 Edition, Clinical Mentors Training. The guidelines for this training include information on the packages of HIV prevention and HIV care and treatment.