Organization: International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
Registration deadline: 22 Jul 2016
Starting date: 26 Sep 2016
Ending date: 05 Oct 2016
The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease's Training and Education department will have a training course on the Principles of Tuberculosis Care and Prevention: Translating Knowledge to Action from 26 September-5 October 2016, in New Delhi, India.
Course Title: Principles of Tuberculosis Care and Prevention: Translating Knowledge to Action
Course Date: 26 September-5 October 2016
Course Location: New Delhi, India
Application Deadline: 22 July 2016
This training course will provide the knowledge and skills to senior programme staff and other health professionals to improve management of persons with tuberculosis (TB) and strengthen programmatic practices.
Target Audience: Specialists, medical and clinical officers, nurses, laboratory technicians, monitoring and evaluation officers, TB and HIV/AIDS, and non-communicable diseases and tobacco control programme staff and health policy and decision makers who are primarily from low- and middle- income countries.
Upon completion of this course, the participants will be able to:
Understand the bacteriological and epidemiological basis for the principles of effective TB patient care and programme management
Understand transmission of TB bacilli and pathogenesis of TB
Diagnose TB infection and disease
Treat and provide support to persons with TB exposure, infection and disease
Record, report, analyse and use data on TB case finding and treatment for decision making at all levels of health care
Describe the epidemiology of TB, drug-resistant TB and TB in at-risk populations, including persons living with HIV
Monitor and evaluate TB programme activities and provide support and supervision to providers working at different levels of healthcare
Work collaboratively with various healthcare programmes and providers to further strengthen quality patient care and programme management at the various levels and functions of the NTP
How to register:
To learn more about this course, please visit http://www.theunion.org/what-we-do/courses/tb-and-mdr-tb/principles-of-tuberculosis-care-and-prevent...
To apply for this course, please visit http://services.theunion.org/useraccount/index.php