 | The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA |
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| The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA |
E. Michael Reyes, MD, MPH, Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center/ International Training and Education on HIV, University of California San Francisco, 74 New Montgomery Street, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94105, 415-597-9308, mreyes@psg.ucsf.edu, Thurma McCann Goldman, MD, MPH, Office of Global HIV/AIDS Program, U.S. Human Resources Services and Services Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane Room 7-05, Rockville, MD 20857, Monica Dea, MPH, International Training & Education Center on HIV, University of Califonrnia San Francisco, 74 New Montgomery Street Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94105, and Jim Jorgenson, International Training and Education Center on HIV, University of Washington, Seattle, 901 Boren Avenue Suite 1100, Seattle, WA 98104.
With a growing HIV/AIDS epidemic and limited access to care and treatment in resource challenged countries, International Training and Education Center on HIV (I-TECH) was developed in response to an ever increasing international need for HIV clinical care and treatment training and technical assistance.
I-TECH was established in Spring 2002 to promote activities that increase human capacity for providing HIV/AIDS care and support in countries and regions hardest hit by the AIDS epidemic. Funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) I-TECH provides technical assistance to CDC Global AIDS Program (CDC/GAP) offices to establish highly responsive HIV/AIDS training centers and referral networks in designated regions worldwide. The Center for AIDS and STD at the University of Washington (UW) and the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) are carrying out the mission of I-TECH in collaboration with multiple global partners and local leaders. Country assessments have been conducted in Ethiopia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Thailand and India. Curricula design work and training network development activities have taken place in Uganda and the Caribbean. Utilizing country case studies, this session will describe key elements of the HIV clinical capacity building efforts outlining gap analysis, on-site technical assistance, HIV clinical training resource repositories and indicators for monitoring/evaluation of I-TECH efforts. Common issues across countries will be highlighted.
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Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.