Addis Ababa, Ethiopia June 4, 2009: A half day long lecture on Philosophy of Palliative Care, Pain Management and the public health approach to scaling up services in resource limited set ups was conducted here in Addis Thursday at which various health professionals attended. The lecture was orgnized by UCSD-Ethiopia.

The lectures were delivered by Dr. Suresh Kumar who is Consultant in Palliative Medicine WHO Demonstration Project Pain and Palliative Care Clinic, Medical College, and Director, Institute of Palliative Medicine, Medical College, Calicut, India. Similar lectures were given by Dr. Kumar at the annual Ethiopian Medical Association conference addressing Ethiopian physicians.


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AIDS Hotline for Ethiopian Health-Care Workers
Kathryn Utan
GLOBAL HEALTH — the magazine
http://dev.globalhealthmagazine.com/cover_stories/aids_hotline_for_ethiopian_health-care_workers

Ethiopia is home to an estimated 980,000 people living with HIV or AIDS, including some 75,000 pregnant women. With support from large-scale international donors, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of individuals receiving life-saving care over the past five years. Currently, some 3,500 health-care workers at nearly 420 separate facilities spanning the country are providing combination antiretroviral treatment to more than 180,447 patients. The vast majority of these are receiving first-line therapy.
 

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Ethiopia National Guidelines OCT 7 (PDF Format 1 MB)

The National Guidelines for HIV/AIDS and Nutrition in Ethiopia (hereafter referred to as the Guidelines) define the nutrition actions for service providers to take in providing quality care and support to people living with HIV and AIDS (PLHIV) at sites that provide HIV counseling and testing (HCT), maternal and child health (MCH) care, antiretroviral therapy (ART), services for orphans and vulnerable children (OVC), and home-based care (HBC). The Guidelines seek to assist the various categories of people infected with and/or affected by HIV: adults, pregnant and lactating women, adolescents, severely malnourished adults and children, and people on medication.

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WHO Guidelines-Clinical Mentoring (PDF Format 871 KB)

This publication discusses the rationale and relevance of clinical mentoring to the public health approach to scaling up HIV care and antiretroviral therapy (antiretroviral therapy). This discussion is based on the Planning Consultation on Clinical Mentoring: Approaches and Tools to Support Scaling-up of Antiretroviral Therapy and HIV Care in Low-resource Settings, Geneva, Switzerland, 7–8 March 2005 and the Working Meeting on Clinical Mentoring: Approaches and Tools to Support the Scaling-up of Antiretroviral Therapy and HIV Care in Low-resource Settings, Kampala, Uganda, 16–18 June 2005 (Annexes 1 and 2).

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Monthly HIV Care and ART Update (Yek 2001 E.C. or March 9, 2009)

The MoH and HAPCO published the monthly update on ART in Ethiopia, "HIV Care and ART Update" (as of Mar 9, 2009). The update lists ART uptake by site and number of new enrolled patients in Ethiopia as of the above mentioned date.

Click here to download the latest update (Yek 2001 E.C. /Mar 2009). (PDF format)

Click here to download previous updates.