Certificate in HIV/AIDS Management

Explore HIV testing methods, including ELISA, Western blot, oral fluid tests. Apply pre-test and post-test counselling, deliver results with care, uphold consent, national laws, anti-discrimination, and human rights.

Early detection enables timely intervention in HIV/AIDS by promptly identifying infections and initiating antiretroviral therapy with monitoring. It reduces transmission, improves health outcomes, and strengthens prevention of disease progression.

Reduce HIV transmission through early detection, testing campaigns, and Western blot confirmation, including oral fluid tests, while addressing stigma and discrimination.

Explore non-invasive oral fluid tests as accessible alternatives to blood testing, highlighting convenience, lack of specialized equipment, and rapid point-of-care results in diverse health care and community settings.

Examine nucleic acid tests, including PCR and reverse transcription PCR, plus viral load detection and non nucleic acid sequence based amplification, and map testing locations for high-risk populations.

Explore sensitivity and specificity in HIV testing to gauge accuracy, with sensitivity identifying those with HIV and specificity identifying those without, reducing false positives and improving public health outcomes.

Explore community based testing initiatives such as mobile, pop-up, and home-based testing to boost accessibility, privacy, and early HIV detection through tailored outreach for high-risk populations.

Explore the benefits, challenges, and considerations of HIV testing innovations, including self-testing kits and point-of-care technologies with non-invasive sample collection, to improve accessibility, privacy, and early detection.

Explore structured pre-test counseling covering procedures, consent, confidentiality, and risk discussion, then post-test counseling to support coping, risk reduction, and referrals for informed health decisions.

Deliver HIV test results with sensitivity and embedded language to create a caring, confidential environment. Provide emotional support, referrals, and adolescent-friendly resources to reduce stigma and improve coping.

Examine ethical and legal considerations in HIV testing and counseling, focusing on informed consent, confidentiality, voluntary participation, and adherence to legal frameworks.

Understand the legal frameworks governing HIV testing, disclosure, and rights protection, including informed consent, confidentiality, testing protocols, and anti-discrimination measures, and explore ethical and public health implications.

Explore antiretroviral therapy for HIV treatment and care, including adherence, drug resistance, comorbidities, and palliative care, and how combining nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors and integrase inhibitors lowers viral load.

Explore antiretroviral therapy (ART) options, including NRTIs and NNRTIs, backup regimens, and the cornerstone role of tenofovir disoproxil, with notes on kidney and bone toxicity and vivid dreams.

Antiretroviral therapy options include protease inhibitors with ritonavir boosters and integrase inhibitors like cabotegravir, addressing resistance and use in treatment-naive and experienced patients.

Explains how antiretroviral therapy uses combination regimens, often a single tablet, to lower viral load, prevent resistance, and support immune function, with pre-exposure prophylaxis for prevention.

Understand how adherence to antiretroviral therapy drives viral suppression and prevents drug resistance through individualized plans, simplified regimens, reminders, peer support, and regular monitoring.

Opportunistic infections arise when HIV weakens immunity, allowing Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia to cause respiratory symptoms. Maintain ART adherence, use prophylaxis, receive vaccinations, practice hand hygiene, and pursue timely multidisciplinary care.

Examine how HIV-related infections and co-morbidities, including tuberculosis and noncommunicable diseases, interact and drive complex management through integrated, multidisciplinary care, monitoring, and patient education, and mental health support.

Explore palliative and end-of-life care in HIV management, emphasizing symptom relief, comfort, and dignity. Apply patient-centered, interdisciplinary collaboration with communication, advance care planning, and cultural sensitivity.

Explore behavioral interventions for HIV prevention, including education, counseling, and community engagement, to promote safer sex, testing, risk reduction, and stigma reduction.

Explore biomedical interventions to prevent HIV transmission, including pre-exposure prophylaxis with antiretrovirals like Truvada for high-risk individuals and post-exposure prophylaxis after potential exposure, and treatment as prevention.

Condom distribution and education promote the consistent, correct use of condoms as a barrier method to prevent HIV transmission across health care facilities, community outreach, schools, and online platforms.

Learn harm reduction approaches to minimize the consequences of high-risk behaviors linked to HIV transmission. Explore needle exchange programs and opioid substitution therapy in community and health care settings.

Link HIV testing to care by implementing rapid referral, integrated health services, community-based outreach, telehealth, peer navigators, culturally competent care, stigma reduction, and real-time data sharing of electronic health records.

Learn partner notification strategies to interrupt HIV transmission, connect exposed individuals to testing and care, and uphold voluntary, confidential rights with counseling, technology, and community engagement.

Explore HIV prevention strategies, including condom promotion, home-based HIV testing and counselling, rapid linkage to care, the 95-95-95 targets, and pre-exposure prophylaxis to reduce transmission.

Explore pre-exposure prophylaxis as a game changer in HIV prevention, reducing transmission risk for HIV-negative partners and highlighting PMTCT strategies for pregnant women and infants.

Examine HIV prevention strategies, including debates over male circumcision, comprehensive sexuality education for adolescents and young men, and behavior interventions to reduce high-risk sexual activity.

Mobilize and amplify community mobilization to advance HIV prevention through advocacy, outreach, training, address stigma, reach transgender individuals and sex workers, ensure HIV testing, treatment access, and mental health support.

Promote long-term retention in HIV care by linking testing to care, integrating comprehensive services, and using monitoring and evaluation to assess effectiveness and guide improvements.

Learn how community based testing, rapid testing, pop up sites, and targeted campaigns work with partner notification to ensure early HIV detection and rapid linkage to care.

Examine prevention of mother-to-child transmission through antiretroviral therapy for pregnant women, HIV testing, infant PCR testing, and breastfeeding or formula feeding options integrated with maternal health services.

Explore how a bottom-up, participatory approach to community engagement empowers diverse voices and fosters collaboration among residents, organizations, and government to address health, education, and environmental concerns.

Develop effective community engagement strategies for HIV/AIDS programs by conducting needs assessments via surveys and forums, building capacity, enabling collaborative planning, and using events, technology, policy advocacy, and evaluation.

Explore how community engagement builds resilience, strengthens social capital, and fosters belonging and shared responsibility. See how inclusive decision making, empowerment, and harm-reduction approaches improve health outcomes and sustainable development.

Explore partner notification and HIV treatment strategies, including testing, antiretroviral therapy, prevention measures, and family planning to reduce transmission and support affected individuals.

The lecture outlines the goals of partner notification services in HIV/AIDS management, emphasizing identification and consideration of sexual partners, testing, and care for HIV positive clients.

Explore considerations for offering partner notification services in HIV/AIDS management, emphasizing client-centered needs, obtaining consent from all parties, and ensuring coordinated linkage across facilities and settings.

Explore approaches used in partner notification for HIV, including counselor and provider roles, voluntary notification, consent, confidentiality, and coordinating with index clients to inform partners.

Explore the steps in index testing for HIV, including engaging clients, identifying and contacting sexual partners, and offering appropriate services to partners and affected individuals.

Enhance partner notification and treatment adherence through comprehensive counselling, individualized treatment plans, accessible services, integrated mental health support, and technology-enabled reminders.

Embracing harm reduction in HIV management promotes nonjudgmental, patient-centered care, flexible dosing and integrated support—from mental health to primary care—bolstering adherence, viral suppression, and stigma reduction.

Explore HIV transmission modes: vertical transmission during pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding; and horizontal, sexual transmission, and how integrating HIV with family planning can prevent mother-to-child transmission.

Explore the significance, benefits, and strategies of integrating HIV with family planning. Promote testing, risk assessment, ART, and PMTCT to deliver holistic care and prevent mother-to-child transmission.

Integrating HIV and family planning services improves access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health in one setting, reduces barriers to care, and advances PMTCT elimination.

Overcome barriers to integrating HIV services with family planning by building capacity, addressing stigma, training providers, engaging communities, and monitoring to sustain scale-up and universal health access.

Offer routine HIV screening for all pregnant women as part of comprehensive care. Detect infection early to reduce mother-to-child transmission and prompt treatment and prep education.

Monitor maternal viral load and safety during pregnancy and provide adherence support. Integrate HIV care with obstetric, pediatric, and psychosocial services to prevent mother-to-child transmission through ART and PMTCT strategies.

This lecture outlines the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, hepatitis B, and congenital syphilis, aiming for EMTCT and zero new infections by 2030 with four key pillars.

Explore the four pillars of prevention of mother-to-child transmission, including primary prevention for childbearing-age women, family planning, unwanted pregnancy prevention, and care and support for HIV-affected families.

Explains the pregnancy and adolescent cascade for preventing mother-to-child transmission, covering family planning, contraception options, HIV prevention, and management of HIV, syphilis, and opportunistic infections.

Manage pregnancy and adolescent cascade in HIV care by detailing quarterly viral load testing, antiretroviral therapy initiation or continuation, and condom-based HIV prevention across trimesters.

Learn infant prophylaxis dosing and management for HIV exposed infants, including AZT administration, dosing forms, DBS testing for viral DNA, and decisions based on maternal viral suppression and breastfeeding status.

This course teaches integrating HIV education into sexual health education through a holistic, evidence-based approach. It emphasizes accurate information, stigma reduction, interactive learning, culture sensitivity, testing, and partnerships for evaluation.

Explore how addressing gender-based violence within HIV prevention and care promotes sexual health and human rights, through comprehensive education, consent, trauma-informed care, gender equality, safe spaces, and legal protection.

Coordinate governments, health care providers, civil society, and law enforcement to deliver a holistic, evidence-based response to gender-based violence in HIV, prevent transmission, and empower communities through data-informed interventions.

Explore how social determinants of health shape HIV vulnerability and access to care. Assess the impact of education, economic status, and community mobilization, and the role of policy and advocacy.

Address HIV stigma and discrimination as a social determinant across community, family, and healthcare settings, protecting rights and dignity to improve prevention and treatment outcomes, and advance gender equality.

Culture and social norms shape HIV prevention, testing, and treatment, affecting health-seeking and care access. Engage communities, translate messages, and bring HIV testing and care to people.

Examine housing stability and legal policy factors as critical drivers of HIV prevention and treatment. Use a human rights-based, multi-stakeholder approach to reduce stigma and improve outcomes for key populations.

Address vulnerable populations with culturally competent, stigma-free HIV prevention and care for men who sleep with men, transgender individuals, and people who inject drugs, including harm reduction.

Explore HIV risks among female sex workers and young people, including stigma and marginalization, and learn harm reduction, safer sex negotiation, and access to testing and treatment.

Explore epidemiology and surveillance of HIV and AIDS, including global and national patterns, surveillance systems, case, behavioral, syndromic, and drug-resistance surveillance that inform prevention and treatment.

Examine global and national HIV epidemiology, covering prevalence, incidence, trends, risk factors, and the use of Smart Care and MDR reports to monitor clients and treatment outcomes.

Explore global and regional HIV epidemiology to identify disparities and guide targeted prevention, treatment, and care. Analyze data disaggregated by region, income level, age, and population to prioritize resources.

Develops and manages HIV surveillance by assessing infrastructure, identifying key populations, setting targets, and integrating data collection, analysis, and reporting to drive evidence-based prevention, treatment, and policy actions.

Align HIV research design with the objective using ethical surveys, clinical trials, qualitative interviews, and laboratory experience to collect, analyze, interpret, and disseminate findings to diverse audiences.