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Addis Ababa University (AAU) School of Pharmacy and Howard University’s Pharmacists and Continuing Education Center are collaborating to strengthen AAU’s capacity to train current and future pharmacists to support HIV-related care and treatment, including the provision of high quality ART.

Well-trained pharmacists are a fundamental part of HIV/AIDS clinical teams in Ethiopia. Consequently, strengthening pharmacy services is critical to efforts to provide quality HIV treatment and support as the country works to rapidly scale up ART in hospitals and health centers nationwide.

Partners are supporting ART expansion in Ethiopia by establishing an accredited continuing education program at AAU School of Pharmacy and introducing a center of excellence for the clinical training of faculty, practitioners, and students who provide pharmaceutical care and services to PLWH.

They are also working to improve access to unbiased, up-to-date, clinically oriented, and evidence-based pharmaceutical health information for HIV patients, healthcare professionals, students, faculty, and the public in general by building institutional capacity at AAU and Ethiopia’s Drug Authority and Control Administration, a federal agency that works closely with the partnership.

Partners have conducted a baseline assessment of current levels of education, training, work experience, and attitudes of pharmacists in Ethiopia. They have also completed three 7-day training-of- trainers workshops on selected topics in pharmacotherapeutics and drug informatics for Ethiopian pharmacists.

Partners established a replicable Drug Information Center of Excellence at AAU and celebrated its opening in May 2009. They are also developing policies and procedures for an accredited continuing pharmacy education program.

 

Updated June 5, 2009