Who should attend?

• Any level of employee who are interested in improving their HIV/AIDS knowledge

Training Outline

The HIV/AIDS Pandemic

• A brief history on HIV and AIDS pandemic
• The history of HIV and AIDS in South Africa
• Global & South Africa HIV Statistics
• HIV and AIDS Theories
• Top 10 HIV Myths and Misconceptions

Transmission of HIV

• High-risk, low-risk and no-risk activities
• Factors that increase the risk of HIV

Testing for HIV

• The importance of pre-post counselling
• Treatment
• People’s reactions to bad news- Stages of grief- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
• HIV Life Cycle
• Stages of HIV & AIDS
• Reducing the risk of infection
• TB and other Opportunistic Infections
• Stigma Cycle and its consequences

 Living positively with HIV 

• Top 10 tips how to handle HIV Positive people
• Top 10 tips to staying healthy with HIV
• Managing HIV/AIDS as a normal chronic disease 
• Reducing the risk of further infection
• Anti-retrovirals and how they work
• Getting to know your local provincial hospitals and procedures for accessing ARVs
• The effects of ARVs on a person
• Serodiscordant couples

Knowledge questionnaire