Event

HIV Awareness Training

29Sep

Online Session

2:30pm - 4pm

This 90 minute HIV Awareness Training session provides an opportunity for Staff to raise their awareness of:

  • What is HIV & AIDS?
  • HIV Transmission Routes
  • The importance of Testing & Treatment
  • Statistics (National and International numbers)
  • Prevention, including: Protection - PEP – PrEP – U=U 
  • The impact of Stigma & Discrimination

With treatment HIV is a manageable condition without any risk of onward transmission to others; and people living with HIV can expect a normal life span.

The Aims of the Training session are:

  • To improve knowledge and raise personal awareness of HIV through providing evidence based information to dispel the fears and myths which contribute to stigma and discrimination.
  • To raise awareness of the impact of prejudice and stigma for people living with or affected by HIV.
  • To provide information on the main ways HIV can be transmitted and prevented.
  • To encourage participants to share the learning with work colleagues, family and friends, and thereby actively raise awareness in others.
  • To have fully informed staff to ensure people living with HIV are treated with dignity and respect.

 

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