Health Worker Education and Training: Selected Resources
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Participant Manual for the WHO Basic ART Clinical Training Course
World Health Organization (2004)
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This course is intended for first-level facility health workers who work in a district outpatient clinic or in peripheral health centers and clinics, in rural or urban areas, in low resource settings. We have divided the training to support the Chronic HIV Care including ART into two short courses - this clinical training course and a counseling course. Clinical training in the use of these simplified guidelines will hopefully provide an efficient introduction to chronic HIV care and to ART. This will allow key tasks to be shifted from doctors to nurses, clinical officers, medical aids and other multipurpose health workers within a clinical team. The goal is efficient quality ARV therapy (ART) based on a solid chronic care model.
Based on WHO Chronic HIV Care with ARV Therapy
Subject Categories: All Curricula | HIV/AIDS, STIs & Tuberculosis
Partnering: A New Approach to Sexual and Reproductive Health
UNFPA (2000)
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Partnering shows how a global consensus is emerging on how to scale up successful programs that involve men without diverting scarce resources from women's health. In fact, men are more and more taking ownership of mobilization and advocacy for the emergence of a more gender equitable young man.
Subject Categories: Gender | Men's Reproductive Health
Partners for Positive Action: Social Mobilization for HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care & Support. Integrating Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS for NGOs, FBOs & CBOs, Vol. IV
CEDPA www.cedpa.org (2002)
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Based on CEDPA's experience in Nepal, this manual promotes social mobilization as a means for communities to increase local participation and women's empowerment in addressing HIV/AIDS. The five-day curriculum imparts skills in advocacy, behavior change communication and social marketing at national and grassroots levels. Although it was developed specifically for Nepal, the lessons are applicable to a variety of contexts
Subject Categories: All Curricula | Community Health | HIV/AIDS, STIs & Tuberculosis | Integrated Reproductive Health
Postpartum and Newborn Care: a Self-study Manual
IntraHealth International (1999)
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Postpartum and Newborn Care is a self-study manual that updates trainers and technical supervisors of traditional birth attendants (TBAs) and other community-level maternal and child health (MCH) workers on the major aspects of postpartum and newborn care during the weeks after delivery. This manual also discusses postabortion care and can serve as a reference during the development and organization of training for TBAs and MCH workers.
Subject Categories: All Curricula | Maternal & Newborn Care
Postpartum care of the mother and newborn: a practical guide: Report of a Technical Working Group
World Health Organization (1998)
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This document reports the outcomes of a technical consultation on the full range of issues relevant to the postpartum period for the mother and the newborn. The report takes a comprehensive view of maternal and newborn needs at a time which is decisive for the life and health both of the mother and her newborn. Taking women's own perceptions of their own needs during this period as its point of departure, the text examines the major maternal and neonatal health challenges, nutrition and breastfeeding, birth spacing, immunization and HIV/AIDS before concluding with a discussion of the crucial elements of care and service provision in the postpartum. The text ends with a series of recommendations for this critical but under-researched and under-served period of the life of the woman and her newborn, together with a classification of common practices in the postpartum into four categories: those which are useful, those which are harmful, those for which insufficient evidence exists and those which are frequently used inappropriately.
Subject Categories: Maternal & Newborn Care
Pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum and newborn care: A guide for essential practice
World Health Organization (2003)
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The aim of this document is to provide evidence-based recommendations to guide health care professionals in the management of women during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum, and post abortion, and newborns during their first week of life.
All recommendations are for skilled attendants working at the primary level of health care, either at the facility or in the community. They apply to all women attending antenatal care, in delivery, postpartum or post abortion care, or who come for emergency care, and to all newborns at birth and during the first week of life (or later) for routine and emergency care.
Subject Categories: Maternal & Newborn Care | Postabortion Care
Preservice Implementation Guide: A Process for Strengthening Preservice Education
JHPIEGO (2002)
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The Preservice Implementation Guide describes the step-by-step process used to create a positive environment on the national level for strengthening medical, nursing, and preservice education, and the steps taken on the institutional level to improve the existing curriculum and its implementation. The guide, which is available in English, is adapted from the World Health Organization's document Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI): Planning, Implementing and Evaluating Pre-Service Education (2001).
Subject Categories: Education & Training Methods
Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) Generic Training Package
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2004)
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The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United States Department of Health and Human Services-Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (HHS-CDC) have collaborated to develop the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) Generic Training Package. Recognizing that building human capacity requires collaboration at multiple levels and across organizations, the curriculum is designed to support the scale up of PMTCT services and assist in unifying and strengthening existing PMTCT training efforts. The curriculum is a comprehensive, evidence-based generic PMTCT training course that was field tested in Guyana, Ethiopia, Cambodia and Mozambique. It is intended to be adapted to include the policies, guidelines and reality of the specific country setting.
Subject Categories: All Curricula | HIV/AIDS, STIs & Tuberculosis | Maternal & Newborn Care
Promoting Quality Maternal and Newborn Care: a Reference Manual for Program Managers
CARE USA International (1998)
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CARE's goal is to help women experience healthy, joyous pregnancies and prevent the tragedy of maternal mortality and morbidity. CARE has a long and rich history of assisting communities and governments in providing maternal health care dating back to the 1950's. As the first Decade of Safe Motherhood closed, CARE conducted a strategic review of its maternal and neonatal health portfolio, with the aim of achieving significant improvements in the scope and quality of our programming. This document was developed as one mechanism towards achieving this goal. It's designed to be a user-friendly synthesis of the latest literature and lessons learned from a variety of countries for program managers. We hope that sharing this experience with the concerned community of policy-makers, programmers and practitioners, will contribute to better care for mothers and newborns in the near future.
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Subject Categories: Maternal & Newborn Care
Provider Checklists for Reproductive Health Services: Reference Guide
Family Health International (2002)
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To promote better reproductive health services for women and men, Family Health International (FHI) has developed and validated three checklists for health care providers. Based on standard medical criteria developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the checklists are designed to assist health workers in their efforts to help family planning clients make informed choices about safe and effective use of contraception. These checklists have not been updated with the 2003 revised WHO Medical Eligibility Criteria. Revised editions of the checklists should be available in 2006.
Subject Categories: Family Planning | Integrated Reproductive Health
