Transcript CHART Regional Coordinating Unit

CHART Regional
Coordinating Unit
Accomplishments to date
Outline of Presentation
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The start of the RCU
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Training Activities initiated by RCU, working with
National Training Centres and external partners
Some Activities undertaken with support or
assistance from RCU
Professional Development of
CHART staff
Other significant RCU activities
The start…
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June 2003: CHART RCU set up within the
UWI HIV/AIDS Response Programme
CHART RCU set out to…
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Build relationships with regional and
international agencies
Develop infrastructure
Encourage and collate needs assessments
Draft work plans
Conduct site visits to CHART centres
Later on…,
together with NTCs and I-TECH
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Created logo and started to develop
website
Began to advertise and facilitate training
opportunities inside and outside of the
Caribbean
National Training Coordinator (NTC)
Meetings
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Three NTC meetings so far:
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January 2004
April 2004
November 2004 (postponed from October due to
Hurricane Ivan!)
First National Training Coordinator
(NTC) Meetings
NTCs, Regional Coordinating Unit staff and
I-TECH colleagues
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Get to know one another
Begin exchange of information and ideas
Present training work plan outlines from each
Centre
Brainstorm about the future role of CHART
Work on designs for a CHART logo
Second and Third National Training
Coordinator (NTC) Meetings
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Modify existing training workplans in order
to create a regional training strategy
Begin to buy into an M & E approach
Brainstorm re a 5-Year Strategic Plan for
the CHART Network.
Discuss the establishment of a Caribbean
wide Clinical Review board
Update on TIMS (M & E) and progress of
Training Calendar
First Chart Caribbean Conference on the
Clinical Management of HIV/AIDS,
June 16-19, 2004
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More than 350 participants from 29
countries in the Caribbean region.
Multilingual
Multidisciplinary
First Chart Caribbean Conference on the
Clinical Management of HIV/AIDS:
collaboration
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Ministry of Health of
Jamaica
The University of the
West Indies
CCNAPC
CAREC
CRN+
The Caribbean
Association of
Pharmacists (CAP)
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PANCAP
The University of
Washington
I-TECH
CDC-GAP Caribbean
USAID/Caribbean
Regional Program
HRSA
IAS-USA
First meeting of Medical Directors’ of CHART
Training Centres - June 2004
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4 of 5 medical directors attended
Also in attendance - Representatives from:
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I-TECH
CDC-GAP
USAID Caribbean Regional Program
UAB
Directors endorsed the role of the CHART
RCU, and began discussions about
governance
Training Activities initiated
by CHART RCU, working
with National Training
Centres and external partners
Training Activities initiated by
CHART RCU and National Centres
Estimated Coverage in 2004 (at least level 1)
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The CHART network either started or
augmented the training of well over 1000
persons from more than 20 countries in the
Caribbean.
[Categorical breakdown and levels of
competence related to training: to be
evaluated and reported]
CHART/CDC/I-TECH TOT Training
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2 “Train Up to TeachBack” Training of
Trainers Workshops
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March 2004
November 2004
Training of Trainers Workshop for Oral
Health Care Providers: April 2004
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Pilot TOT for Dentists (Jamaica)
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April 2004
collaboration with the UWI HARP educational team
and the Jamaica Dental Association
16 oral health care providers in 9 of 14 Jamaican
parishes Pilot TOT for Dentists (Jamaica)
Forthcoming (April 2005) Caribbean Dental
Group HIV Workshop, Antigua
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CHART staff presenting and facilitating participants
Courses for VCT Providers - Bahamas
June 2004, March 2005
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CHART RCU, in collaboration with JHPIEGO
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JUNE 2004
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2 CHART Trainers certified as “VCT Clinical Trainers”
25 healthcare providers also trained
MARCH 2005 (scheduled)
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CHART RCU will sponsor another 30 persons
15 persons to be certified as to “VCT Clinical Trainers”
Some Activities undertaken
with support or assistance
from RCU
CHART Bahamas
PMTCT+ Workshop
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Held January 2005
Major technical assistance from I-TECH
Logistics and administrative support by the
RCU
Caribbean Association of Pharmacists
Conference, Belize, Central America
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August 15 -22, 2004
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RCU sponsored Miss Vanria Rolle from the
Bahamas to facilitate an ARV adherence
workshop during the 24th Convention of the
Caribbean Association of Pharmacists
“Building Bridges*” Conference
(US Embassy/Baptist Health of South
Florida)
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October 19, 2004, Jamaica
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Delegates from Bahamas, Cayman Islands,
Jamaica and U.S.A.
RCU
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supported CHART Jamaica
sponsored presenter from the Dominican Republic
used HCW data base to recruit participants
*The Jamaica:Florida Connection
Clinical Preceptorships
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Dr Robert Green, Internist, Kingston Public
Hospital, spent one month at the University of
Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in August
2004.
Dr David McGowan, Internal Medicine
resident at the University Hospital of the West
Indies (UHWI), has completed one month
(Jan 2005) at UAB and has started a twomonth preceptorship at Les Centres
GHESKIO.
Professional Development
of CHART staff
Activities
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February 2003
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CHART NTCs from Bahamas, Barbados, and
Haiti met with CDC-GAP Caribbean liaison in
Miami to attend the American Foundation for AIDS
Research (AMFAR) annual conference.
June 2003 to November 2004
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7 members of the CHART Staff; 2 persons from
the UWI HARP Coordinating Unit attended a
combined total of 12 training courses
Types of training
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Synergy Essentials Course for Program
Managers
Voluntary Counselling and Testing Skills
Course for VCT Providers
VCT Clinical Training Skills Course (TOT) for
Candidate Clinical Trainers
CHART/CDC/I-TECH “Train Up to
TeachBack” Caribbean TOT Workshop
Other significant RCU activities
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CHART Logo and website development
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www.chartcaribbean.org
Building data base of Caribbean health care
workers, including potential trainers (on-going)
Some fiscal management
Helping to handle logistics in preparation for
meetings
Working with OECS-RCM on a Training plan
Working with JHPIEGO and I-TECH on a modified
TIMS database for CHART
Other significant RCU activities
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Submissions To International Conferences
 XV International AIDS Conference, Bangkok
Thailand, July 11-16, 2004.
‘An innovative model for integrating monitoring and
evaluation (M&E) with HIV/AIDS training
interventions’
 132nd Annual Meeting of the American Public
Health Association (APHA), Washington DC,
November 6-10, 2004.
"Oral health care providers: Critical role players in the
HIV /AIDS epidemic, The Jamaican Experience".
End of Presentation