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