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HIV Voluntary Counseling & Testing (VCT) and Prevention Training
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This workshop provides participants with information and skills to improve HIV pre/post test counseling services that are culturally appropriate for their community. As members of a small group, participants will receive individualized attention. Videotaped role-plays of pre/post test counseling sessions give participants the opportunity to observe and evaluate their verbal and nonverbal communication. Participants are trained in how to give negative, positive and indeterminate test results to clients who demonstrate a variety of risk behaviors. Participants are also offered the option of taking a confidential or anonymous HIV test during their stay in Lebanon in order to evaluate the test counseling experience from a client’s perspective. In addition to interactive learning at the training center, participants visit several HIV service agencies, testing sites and laboratories, and will meet people living with HIV. Participants will learn about the vulnerabilities and prevention options particularly affecting women from renowned experts from the University of California, San Francisco.
Performance Objectives
At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
- Demonstrate increased knowledge of HIV epidemiology, virology, symptomatology, laboratory testing techniques, transmission and prevention dynamics
- Describe current methods used to test for HIV infection and the interpretation of negative, positive and indeterminate results
- Describe special issues facing women infected with HIV
- Clarify their own values system and its impact on their counseling capacity
- Describe symptomatology of TB and prevalent STDs and their relationship to AIDS
- Describe the cofactor theory and its relationship to current treatment strategies for HIV and AIDS
- Incorporate current behavioral change theory into prevention counseling techniques
- Demonstrate effective HIV pre/post test counseling skills through simulated role-plays • Design an HIV counseling evaluation tool that is culturally appropriate for their health care setting
Site Visits
- HIV Hotline Centers
- 2-3 Hospitals
- 2 HIV Testing Centers (1 general HIV Testing Center, 1 HIV Testing Center for Men
- HIV Testing Laboratory
Clinic Observations Visits
- Urgent Care
- Women’s Clinic
- Oncology Clinic
- Laboratory of Clinical Virology
Who Should Attend:
Funding agencies may select candidates who work as professionals in health care or social services who will have responsibility for counseling or training others to provide HIV pre/post test counseling. Participants need to have at least two years of experience working in the field of HIV and AIDS.
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