HIVAN / WCRP Forums - The HIVAN / WCRP Forum has a new partner - the US Consulate. They have come on board to help sponsor more workshops, as well as enabling our members and colleagues to meet with some of their very interesting visitors. We had more than 14 Forums this year, including five Youth Peace Forums, and a special celebration for International Peace Day. Every forum has 60 to 90 people participating and the YPFs have over 1000 young people at theirs.
16 Days of Activism - WCRP and HIVAN joined with Diakonia and the KZN survivors of violence for a very successful 16 Days of Activism against Violence against Women. The E-campaign of “Ring the Bell! Stop the Violence!” also saw articles in the press, a march, a wonderful T Shirt campaign at the City Hall preceded by a beautiful service at Emmanuel Cathedral .

The World Conference on Religion and Peace (WCRP), Durban Chapter and The Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking, HIVAN recently held a Support Group Training workshop, hosted by the U.S. Consulate in Durban.

The target audience for this training was community service providers wishing to set up Support Groups, with the objective being to build capacity and leadership in the HIV / AIDS Service Community.

Training covered a variety of issues and areas including: Supporting Others and basic foundations for a support group; Supporting Caregivers and conflict resolution within a Support Group.

Please click here for a follow-up presentation on this training, as given by Charles Manda during July 2008.

The Advanced Health Management Programme (AHMP) is an internationally cocertified, intensive management development short course, tailor-made for the needs of the healthcare executives and professionals in the public or not-for-profit sector. This course has been specifically customised for health managers working in the HIV/AIDS field and is designed to take into account the time constraints of managers who work full-time.

The programme is offered by the FPD in association with the Yale University, School of Public Health. The programme is designed to develop the participants ‘ strategic management capabilities by broadening their views of their roles in the HIV sector and developing key managerial competencies required to successfully manage in such an environment with a leadership role in HIV/AIDS.

Interested candidates have to complete the scholarship application form (please see below to download this form) and return it to FPD at fax: 012-481 2083 or PO Box 74789, Lynnwood Ridge, 0040 before 25 July 2008.

AHMP Scholarship Application Form

The HIV-911 Programme is collaborating again with the Foundation for Professional Development (FPD) to bring a course on Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) to HIV/AIDS service organisations based in KwaZulu-Natal.

To be held 10 to 12 June 2008, this course will cover the following themes:

• Infectious diseases;
• Background to Voluntary Counselling & Testing (VCT);
• Principles and methods of HIV testing and test methodologies;
• The professional relationship between the VCT counsellor and the medical practitioner;
• The counsellor & counselling skills;
• Practical aspects of individual patient VCT & AVCCT;
• The counselling environment;
• Pre-test counselling;
• Conducting the test – practical training in rapid finger-prick testing;
• Post-test counselling;
• Post-counselling: HIV-negative patient;
• Post-test counselling: HIV-positive patient;
• Post-exposure counselling;
• Adherence issues and;
• Practical VCT – Case studies & team-based role-play.

The full course outline and registration form can be downloaded here

The HIV-911 Programme is collaborating again with the Foundation for Professional Development (FPD) to bring a course on Palliative Care in HIV/AIDS to HIV/AIDS service organisations based in KwaZulu-Natal.

To be held on 12 May 2008, this course will cover:

• An introduction to palliative care
• Pain control
• Pain control in HIV/AIDS
• Symptom control in HIV/AIDS
• The last 48 hours
• Palliative care of a patient with HIV/AIDS – specific challenges
• Palliative care of a patient with HIV/AIDS – psychosocial aspects

The full course outline and registration form can be downloaded Here