tailieunhanh - báo cáo sinh học:" Training health care workers to promote HIV services for patients with tuberculosis in the Democratic Republic of Congo"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : Training health care workers to promote HIV services for patients with tuberculosis in the Democratic Republic of Congo | Human Resources for Health BioMed Central Research Training health care workers to promote HIV services for patients with tuberculosis in the Democratic Republic of Congo Koen Vanden Driessche1 Mulangu Sabue2 Wendy Dufour1 Frieda Behets1 and Annelies Van Rie 1 Open Access Address 1School of Public Health University of North Carolina Chapel Hill NC 27599-7435 USA and 2Ecole de Santé Publique Kinshasa DR Congo Email Koen Vanden Driessche - Koen@ Mulangu Sabue - Sabuem@ Wendy Dufour - Dufour6@ Frieda Behets - Behetsf@ Annelies Van Rie - Vanrie@ Corresponding author Published 17 March 2009 Received 6 February 2008 Human Resources for Health 2009 7 23 doi l478-449l-7-23 Accepted I7 March 2009 This article is available from http content 7 l 23 2009 Driessche et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background HIV counseling and testing HIV prevention and provision of HIV care and support are essential activities to reduce the burden of HIV among patients with TB and should be integrated into routine TB care. Methods The development of training materials to promote HIV services for TB patients involved the definition of target health care workers HCWs identification of required tasks skills and knowledge review of international guidelines and adaptation of existing training materials for voluntary counseling and testing prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and management of opportunistic infections OIs . Training effectiveness was assessed by means of questionnaires administered pre- and post-training by correlating post-training results of HCWs with the centre s HIV testing acceptance rates and .