| Courses | Description |
| INTRODUCTION | The Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI)
is a center of excellence, and part of |
| HIV Programme |
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| Core HIV/AIDS Course | Duration : Three- weeks Eligible Participants : Qualified registered medical officers, preferably with work experience in an HIV/AIDS care setting Course Content : Three-week curriculum includes epidemiology; biology and history of HIV in humans; diagnosis and monitoring of HIV and opportunistic infections; comprehensive ART; adherence and prevention counseling; ART programme management; reporting; data management |
| Short HIV/AIDS Courses | Course Content : One-week courses provide in-depth knowledge on specific topics related to HIV/AIDS care and prevention Available Courses Include: Advanced ART Management through Clinical Placement; Research in HIV Care; Training of Trainers |
| ART Training for Mid-Level Practitioners | Duration : One week Eligible Participants : Qualified registered nurses; clinical officers; others beginning work in an ART programme with little or no previous experience in an HIV/AIDS care setting. Course Content: Management and care of HIV patients on ART; care for opportunistic infections; prevention and adherence counseling; healthcare team dynamics |
| Comprehensive ART Management for Clinical Officers, Nurses and Midwives | Duration: Two weeks Eligible Participants : Qualified registered nurses and clinical officers who have completed the ART Training for Mid-Level Practitioners course or equivalent Course Content : Building on the content of the ART training course, this two-week curriculum covers initiating ART; monitoring ART adherence; efficacy; and drug resistance. |
| Advanced ART Course | Duration: Five days Eligible Participants : Qualified registered medical officers who have at least two years of practical experience in provision of ART, or are ART programme leaders Course Content : Five-day course focuses on evidence-based programmatic clinical care with a section on new research findings and how to put them into practice; ART toxicities and side effects; switching therapy; delivering second and third line therapy; application in the resource-limited setting (RLS); role of resistance testing in the RLS; HIV co-infection with TB, Malaria, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C; information on new findings in prevention research. |
| Malaria Programme | |
| Integrated Management of Malaria (IMM) | Duration: Six days Eligible Participants : Clinical officers; medical officers; nurses; midwives; laboratory staff; record keepers; participants should be from health centres with basic laboratory capabilities Course Content : Multidisciplinary six-day course designed to build capacity at the facility level by bringing together multiple members of a clinic’s staff for training; the curriculum covers general aspects of malaria prevention and control; clinical management of fever and malaria; co-infections and drug interactions; and laboratory use in malaria patient management Where else is this Course Offered? This course can also be offered at the district level by IDI alumni who have completed the IDI-based Integrated Management of Malaria and Training of Trainers’ courses, under supervision of the Joint Uganda Malaria Programme (JUMP) training team; known as Cascade Training, this approach targets health workers from health centres with basic laboratory capabilities |
| RDT and Fever Case Management - Malaria (also know as “Step-Down” Training in Fever Case Management) | Duration: One and a half day Eligible Participants : All healthcare workers (particularly those with minimal training) responsible for making patient-care decisions, at health centres without access to microscopy diagnosis Course Content : This three-day course is an abbreviated version of the standard malaria training course, addressing fever case management but using approved algorithms incorporating Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs), in place of microscopy Learning Objectives : After completion of the course, a facility should be able to demonstrate the collective ability to use RDTs to test for malaria, prescribe appropriate treatment, and apply proper record keeping and logistics. Where is this course offered? The course takes place in health facilities |
| Laboratory Training Programme | |
| HIV/AIDS and ART Laboratory Management | Eligible Participants : L aboratory technicians and technologists; laboratory scientific officers; others performing roles of laboratory technicians and technologists may be considered Course Content: This training programme consists of two independent courses:
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| Clinical Pharmacology Programme | |
| HIV/AIDS and Antiretroviral Therapy for Pharmacy Health Workers-Patient Focused Dispensing | Duration: One week Eligible Participants: This course targets pharmacy health workers involved in dispensing antiretroviral therapy to patients, including pharmacy technicians; enrolled nurses; enrolled comprehensive nurses; registered nurses; and registered comprehensive nurses Course Content: The course is given in four modules: Overview of HIV/AIDS; Pharmacotherapy of HIV/AIDS; Stores and Supply Management for ART Services; and Good Pharmacy Practice |
| Systems Strengthening Programme | |
| HIV/AIDS Programme Planning and Management | Duration: One week Eligible Participants : Health care workers involved in the planning and management of HIV-related projects and programmes, including medical officers; clinical officers; nurses; midwives; other people involved in the management of HIV-related projects are also eligible (counselors, social workers, administrators, etc.) Course Content : This one week course will address the major components of the project cycle, including project initiation; project design; project implementation; and project monitoring; subtopics such as stakeholder analysis, developing problem statements, creating logical frameworks, risk analysis, action planning and budgeting will be discussed in some detail |
| Project Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting | Duration: Five days Eligible Participants: Health workers involved in planning and management of projects, programmes, health facilities and/or district health services including physicians/medical officers; clinical officers; nurses; midwives; counselors; laboratory staff; and district surveillance focal persons; participants will ideally be in charge of health facility units, including out-patient department, maternity wards, antenatal care, in-patient departments, and ART/HIV clinics Course Content: This five-day course covers an overview of the project cycle; key concepts of MER; developing smart project objectives and indicators; developing project logic models and frameworks; developing monitoring tools, methods and procedures; designing and implementing an evaluation; developing MER plan; MER data quality assurance; MER results presentation and interpretation; report writing; MER results dissemination Where is this course offered? This course takes place in health facilities |
| Data Management Course | Duration: One week Eligible Participants: Health workers directly involved in handling data and training health workers at the district level, including clinical officers; nurses; midwives; laboratory staff; and district surveillance focal persons; ideally participants will be in charge of health facilities or units such as out-patient departments, maternity wards, antenatal care units, in-patient departments, and ART/HIV clinics Course Content: Data collection; storage; retrieval; updating; analysis; presentation and interpretation; report writing; using data for planning; training peers and supportive supervision in data management; ethics in data management; disposition of data |
| Research Capacity Building | |
| These courses are offered by the IDI Research and Training Departments, in collaboration with partners | |
| Good Clinical Practice | Duration: Twodays Eligible Participants: Anyone involved in research Course Content: Two day course on: History of human subjects protection, What is ICH-GCP, Qualifications required to conduct a trial/ Trial conduct, Standard Operating Procedures, Essential Documents, Investigator’s Brochure, Trial protocol and amendments, Case Report Forms (CRFs), Monitoring, Responsibilities of Investigators, monitors, sponsor and IRB/IEC; Handling and safety reporting procedures: Serious Adverse Events (SAE) and Contract Research Organization (CRO) |
| STATA and SPSS | Duration: One week Eligible Participants: Health care workers and/or researchers involved in data collection, analysis and publication writing. Masters and PhD students writing up findings from their research projects Course Content: Introduction; Study designs / study protocol, basic statistics (statistical inference), binary and Count Data, Confounding and Covariate Adjustment, Missing data and introduction to Multivariate analysis using STATA and/or SPSS |
| Introduction to Research in HIV Care | Duration: One week Eligible Participants: Doctors and senior health workers Course Content: Introduction; Basics of critical appraisal, How to write a research proposal, Basic statistics, Tips for and updates on clinical trials, Data analysis(statistical tests and their evaluation), Management and processing of research data, Ethical issues in HIV related research |
