CHART Regional Coordinating Unit

Accomplishments to date

Outline of Presentation The start of the RCU

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… June 2003: CHART RCU set up within the

UWI HIV/AIDS Response Programme

Build relationships with regional and international agencies

Develop infrastructure Encourage and collate needs assessments Draft work plans Conduct site visits to CHART centres

CHART RCU set out to…

Later on…, together with NTCs and I-

TECH 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

Three NTC meetings so far: 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

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 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 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 Ministry of Health of

Jamaica The University of the

West Indies CCNAPC CAREC CRN+ The Caribbean

Association of Pharmacists (CAP)

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 4 of 5 medical directors attended Also in attendance - Representatives from:

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

CentresEstimated Coverage in 2004 (at least level 1)

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 2 “Train Up to TeachBack” Training of

Trainers Workshops March 2004 November 2004

Training of Trainers Workshop for Oral Health Care Providers: April 2004 Pilot TOT for Dentists (Jamaica)

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 CHART staff presenting and facilitating participants

Courses for VCT Providers - Bahamas

June 2004, March 2005 CHART RCU, in collaboration with JHPIEGO JUNE 2004

2 CHART Trainers certified as “VCT Clinical Trainers” 25 healthcare providers also trained

MARCH 2005 (scheduled) 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

Held January 2005 Major technical assistance from I-TECH Logistics and administrative support by the

RCU

Caribbean Association of Pharmacists Conference, Belize, Central America August 15 -22, 2004

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) October 19, 2004, Jamaica

Delegates from Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Jamaica and U.S.A.

RCU supported CHART Jamaica sponsored presenter from the Dominican Republic used HCW data base to recruit participants

*The Jamaica:Florida Connection

Clinical Preceptorships 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 two-month preceptorship at Les Centres GHESKIO.

Professional Development of CHART staff

Activities February 2003

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 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

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 CHART Logo and website development

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 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".

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