Click here to sign up for our mailing list to keep up-to-date with the latest Twinning Center news and activities!

View Recent Newsletters

Partners at Ethiopia’s Ambo Hospital and Jersey Shore University Medical Center are collaborating to strengthen Ambo’s capacity to provide HIV-related treatment, care, and support — including ART — to PLWH.

Specific objectives of the partnership include:

• Strengthening Ambo Hospital’s organizational and human resource capacity in the field of HIV care;
• Improving coordination of healthcare services provided to PLWH as a way of to increase client retention in ART programs; and
• Establishing an infection control program and related procedures at Ambo.

As of May 2009, partners have conducted three professional exchanges that focused on providing onsite training and mentoring for Ambo staff. During their most recent exchange, Jersey Shore partners conducted an “HIV Basics” training for clinical staff, as well as a training on ARVs and medications used to treat common opportunistic infections. They also provided an interdisciplinary case review and conducted a question and answer session for Ambo’s peer educators group.

Upcoming activities will focus on continued training and onsite mentoring for Ambo staff, in particular on the topics of infection prevention, case management, and adherence counseling.

 

Updated June 5, 2009