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TRAINING AND CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT

The growing evidence indicates that improving the productivity, engagement, and performance of health workers can enhance care outcomes. This was the shared vision of the 14 members of the Academic Alliance in Africa when they launched the Training and Capacity Development Programme in 2002. They aimed to enhance and maintain the competence of healthcare workers to enable them to provide top-quality prevention and management of HIV and other infectious diseases in Africa.

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Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Surgical Skills for Counsellors

This course is designed to equip health facility counsellors with essential competencies (knowledge, skills, attitudes, ethics and facts) required for delivery of SMC services.. The course fee is UGX 1,000.000/= or USD 278. This fee covers training materials, practical sessions, certificate, and meals (break-tea and lunch). Apply here

Course Aim

To build capacity for the delivery of quality SMC services among health workers (SMC counselors).

Core Competencies (knowledge and skills) and course outcomes

The course will provide trainees the following competencies:

Ability to conduct Group client education and counselling sessions on SMC.
Ability to conduct HTS eligibility assessment, pre-test counselling (including risk assessment for HIV infection) and post counselling.
Ability to apply effective strategies for creating demand for SMC.
Ability to conduct effective education and counselling on wound care, sexual abstinence (until full wound healing) and safe sexual practices after MC.
Ability to conduct effective education on importance of tetanus vaccine and the rightful dozes.
Ability to conduct couple counseling for clients seeking VMMC services.

Course Objectives

At the end of the course, the trainees will be able to:

Knowledge objectives

Describe different models of scaling up SMC List benefits of SMC.
Describe the importance of confidentiality in male circumcision.
Explain the informed consent process.
Describe the basic counselling qualities, skills, values, ethics in providing the SMC services.
Describe the appropriate skills in carrying out pre-and post- test counselling.
Describe the rationale and conditions for couple counselling.

Skills objectives

Give correct Group health education content and counselling to clients and parents/guardians about SMC.
Conduct individual HIV counselling and testing for SMC clients and their partners (pre-test and post-test counselling).
Conduct couple counselling for clients who come with their partners.
Conduct post operative counselling for clients who have been circumcised.
Prepare effective counselling spaces that allow and promote practice of confidentiality.
Sort, set and give out suitable IEC materials during health education and HTS counselling sessions.

Target audience

This training is designed for health care SMC counselors among which may include social workers with previous HIV training, Nurse counselors, Mid wives and professional counsellors.