HIV

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. 

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.