tailieunhanh - báo cáo sinh học:" Developing a competency-based curriculum in HIV for nursing schools in Haiti"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : Developing a competency-based curriculum in HIV for nursing schools in Haiti | Human Resources for Health BioMed Central Open Access Developing a competency-based curriculum in HIV for nursing schools in Haiti Elisa KnebeE1 Nancy PuttkammeE1 Adrien Demes 2 Ruth Devirois 3 and Mona Prismy 2 Address 1International Training and Education Center on HIV I-TECH University of Washington 901 Boren Avenue Suite 1100 Seattle WA 98104-3508 USA international Training and Education Center on HIV I-TECH Haiti Delmas 95 Route de Jacquet 14 Petion Ville Haiti and 3Institut Haĩtien de Santé Communautaire Angle rues Rigaud et Lambert Pétionville . 13408 Haiti Email Elisa Knebel - eknebel@ Nancy Puttkammer - nputt@ Adrien Demes - adriendemes@ Ruth Devirois - r19derivois2000@ Mona Prismy - zeline611@ Corresponding authors tEqual contributors Published 29 August 2008 Received 29 January 2008 Human Resources for Health 2008 6 17 doi 1478-4491-6-17 Accepted 29 August 2008 This article is available from http content 6 1 17 2008 Knebel 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 Preparing health workers to confront the HIV AIDS epidemic is an urgent challenge in Haiti where the HIV prevalence rate is and approximately 10 100 people are taking antiretroviral treatment. There is a critical shortage of doctors in Haiti leaving nurses as the primary care providers for much of the population. Haiti s approximately 1000 nurses play a leading role in HIV AIDS prevention care and treatment. However nurses do not receive sufficient training at the pre-service level to carry out this important work. Methods To address this issue the Ministry of Health and Population collaborated with the .