ICT for HIV/AIDS Surveillance and Reporting
Details
HIV/AIDS surveillance and reporting enhances efforts to prevent HIV transmission, improve allocation of resources for treatment services, and assist in evaluating the impact of public health interventions. This course will provide training in new methods, techniques and best practices related to effective reporting data on AIDS cases, new infections, and behavior and characteristics of people at high risk to relevant authorities. The general aims of the course are to familiarize participants with ICT including mobile phone and tablets in data collection and disseminating of HIV/AIDS surveillance to providers and institutions responsible for implementation of HIV/AIDS prevention control.
Duration
5 days
Who should attend?
Medical practitioners in charge of HIV/AIDS programs, project officers, researchers and data collectors
Course Administration Details
Methodology
The instructor led trainings are delivered using a blended learning approach and comprise of presentations, guided sessions of practical exercise, web-based tutorials and group work. Our facilitators are seasoned industry experts with years of experience, working as professional and trainers in these fields.
All facilitation and course materials will be offered in English. The participants should be reasonably proficient in English.
ACCREDITATION
Upon successful completion of this training, participants will be issued with an Indepth Research Institute (IRES) certificate certified by the National Industrial Training Authority (NITA).
TRAINING VENUE
The training will be held at IRES Training Centre. The course fee covers the course tuition, training materials, two break refreshments and lunch.
All participants will additionally cater for their, travel expenses, visa application, insurance, and other personal expenses.
ACCOMMODATION AND AIRPORT PICKUP
Accommodation and airport pickup are arranged upon request. For reservations contact the Training Officer.
Outline
Module 1: Introduction
- Global HIV/AIDS epidemiology and the impact of the epidemic
- General principles and key epidemiological issues of public health surveillance
- Components of HIV surveillance systems
- Basic HIV surveillance principles and concepts
- Establishing a HIV surveillance system
Module 2: HIV/AIDS Surveillance Data
- Obtaining useful and high-quality data
- Examining data to determine the distribution of infection
- Principles of effective data use
- Using surveillance to evaluate effectiveness of programmatic response and programme coverage
- Most common weaknesses in HIV surveillance data
- Sources of bias in HIV surveys
- Mechanisms for an efficient system for using data
Module 3: HIV/AIDS Data Collection Using ODK
- Introduction to ODK
- Preparing the mobile phone for data collection
- ODK basics training
- ODK survey and implementation
Module 4: Analyzing HIV/AIDS Surveillance data
- Sorting the data records
- Performing summary statistics (for numerical data)
- Summarizing data into frequency tables
- Calculating percentages and rates.
Module 5: Writing Surveillance Report
- Steps in producing national HIV report
- Presentation of data for different audiences
- Developing interesting and persuasive presentations
- Bringing together programme planning and advocacy
- Presenting data to specific user groups
Schedules
| Weekdays | 08:00 AM — 03:00 PM |
| No. of Days: | 5 |
| Total Hours: | 35 |
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