Mon, Feb 07
|ANEW Hotel Parktonian Johannesburg
HIV Advanced Clinical Care
Learn the management of HIV complications and treatment optimisation for patients needing 2nd and 3rd Line ART Regimens.
Time & Location
Feb 07, 2022, 8:00 AM GMT+2 – Feb 11, 2022, 4:30 PM GMT+2
ANEW Hotel Parktonian Johannesburg, 120 De Korte St, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, 2000, South Africa
About the event
Description
The Advanced Clinical Care (ACC) Programme for Healthcare Professionals was designed to strengthen the health system’s ability to address challenges of of a rapidly maturing TB and HIV epidemic. This course will focus on providing healthcare professionals with the core knowledge and skills required to diagnose and manage unstable HIV patients with commonly observed opportunistic infections and other comorbidities in addition to those failing antiretroviral therapy (ART).
The goal of the training is to enhance clinical competency to manage complex patients with HIV and HIV/TB in all populations (adults, children, adolescent and pregnant women) including other key populations. The course will provide healthcare professionals with an approach to the assessment, investigation and management of patients with advanced HIV disease and common infections, complications or co- morbidities in each organ system. The course is conducted using the following teaching and learning methods:
Individual pre-reading
Interactive case discussion
Group case discussion…