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Community Home-Based Care for People and Communities Affected by HIV/AIDS: Training Course and Handbook for Community Health Workers. (October 2006)

Trainer's Guide (Complete, 6.4 MB)
This pre-tested and peer-reviewed curriculum focuses on the knowledge and skills necessary for providing holistic CHBC for people living with HIV/AIDS, transferring knowledge and skills to caregivers and CHBC clients, and mobilizing communities around HIV/AIDS prevention, care, treatment, and support. The trainer’s guide uses simple language and emphasizes participatory learning methodology that do not require high literacy levels of participants. It includes comprehensive units that cover topics from HIV basics, communication skills, nursing care, nutrition, positive living, family planning, HIV prevention, ART, to community mobilization.

Trainer's Guide Chapters (for individual download):

Table of Contents, Acknowledgments, Notes to the Trainer
Unit 1: Introduction to the Training
Unit 2: Facts about HIV/AIDS and People Living with HIV/AIDS
Unit 3: Community Home-Based Care: The Basics
Unit 4: Basic Anatomy & Physiology and Safer Sex
Unit 5: Talking with Others: Communication Skills
Unit 6: The Community Health Worker’s Role in Community Mobilization
Unit 7: Promoting Positive Living and Emotional Wellbeing
Unit 8: Nutrition
Unit 9: Basic Nursing Care
Unit 10: Managing and Treating AIDS-Related Conditions
Unit 11: Teaching Others and Transferring Skills
Unit 12: Taking Care of Yourself
Unit 13: Record Keeping
Unit 14: CHBC Practicum

Advanced Unit 15: The Expanded Role of the Community Health Worker
Advanced Unit 16: Family Planning
Advanced Unit 17: Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV
Advanced Unit 18: Antiretroviral Therapy (ART)
Advanced Unit 19: CHBC for Groups Needing Special Attention

References and Resources 

 

Handbook (Complete, 8.1 MB)
This illustrated handbook provides community health workers with a practical user-friendly tool that can be used as reference material, and also during skills transfer to clients and caregivers.

Handbook Chapters (for individual download):

Table of Contents, Acknowledgments, Acronym List
Unit 1: Introduction
Unit 2: Facts about HIV/AIDS and People Living with HIV/AIDS
Unit 3: Community Home-Based Care: The Basics
Unit 4: Our Bodies and Safer Sex
Unit 5: Communication
Unit 6: CHBC in Your Community
Unit 7: Positive Living
Unit 8: Nutrition
Unit 9: Basic Nursing Care
Unit 10: Managing and Treating AIDS-Related Conditions
Unit 11: Transferring Skills to Clients and Caregivers
Unit 12: Taking Care of Yourself
Unit 13: Record Keeping
Unit 14: CHBC Practicum

Advanced Unit 15: Expanded Role of the Community Health Worker
Advanced Unit 16: Family Planning
Advanced Unit 17: Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV
Advanced Unit 18: Antiretroviral Therapy (ART)
Advanced Unit 19: CHBC for Groups Needing Special Attention

Appendix: Useful Forms and Checklists for CHWs
References and Resources, Illustration Credits 


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