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Community Home-Based Care (CHBC) Training
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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