HIV Healthcare Training Online

posted: 03/03/2011

HIV and STI doctors and other healthcare staff have an engaging and extensive online learning programme called eHIV-STI. This e-training has been put together by the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV and the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians. Keeping HIV clinic staff well trained is an important part of good HIV care.
 

This eHIV-STI training provides the knowledge healthcare professionals need for treating and supporting people with sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, and related conditions. It’s designed to be used alongside clinic training.
 

3 knowledge levels

They provide training to three levels of knowledge, from introductory, to more advanced and finally specialist knowledge, so people can learn in stages.
 

The 60 sessions of e-learning with video clips and case studies cover most of what HIV and STI clinic staff need to know. The training is open for doctors and NHS healthcare staff in England who register with the site.
 

HIV & STI e-Learning for Healthcare

Manchester HIV Training

posted: 19/01/2011

Dates and details of all the training courses on HIV, sexual health, drugs and alcohol for the next year are now listed and can be booked with Manchester Public Health Service.

HIV courses

• Positive Interventions : HIV & Sexual Health Awareness

2 Day course, for frontline workers, in April, July, November, January (2012), February and March

• Positive Plus : Advanced HIV Awareness

1 Day Course for frontline workers - you need to have done their HIV introduction course Back to Basics, or have a good knowledge of HIV. In May, November

• Back to Basics : An introduction to HIV and Sexual Health Awareness

1 Day Course, for frontline workers, in June, October, November, and March (2012)

• Rather have a cup of tea : Over 50’s, sexual health and HIV

1 Day Course for frontline staff working with people over 50, in August

Other Manchester sexual health, drink and drug courses

• Crushes to Hot Flushes : Women and Sexual Health (women only course)
• Getting the Measure of it : Basic alcohol awareness
• Alcohol and Dependency : Women and alcohol
• It’s a Man’s World : Working with boys and young men
• ‘It’s not an issue’ : Sexual health, sex and relationships for people with learning difficulties
• Reducing Drug Related Deaths : Overdose Management
• Living the High Life (Part 1) : Drug Awareness
• Living the High Life (Part 2) : Advanced drugs awareness
• No Girls Allowed : Men and sexual health (men only course)
• People, Pins and Prevention : Safer injection training
• The Jury’s Out : Harm Reduction
• The Sleeping Giant Awakes! : Hepatitis C
• Who ate all the P.I.E.S : ‘An Introduction to Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs’
• Call the Cops : ‘The essential guide to Legal and illegal 'Legal Highs'
• Curry & Rice : The Ultimate Take Away [about the high risks of speedballing: using heroin and crack together]

Manchester Public Health Service sexual health training booklet with application form

Sexual Health and Harm Reduction Training Administrator: Kellie McGuire
MPHDS
Mauldeth House
Mauldeth Road West
Chorlton
Manchester
M21 7RL
0161 882 2301

 

Other Manchester Public Health training booklets

• Mental Health and Well Being, contact
• Physical Activity, Health Eating & Cancer Prevention, contact
• Stop Smoking, contact

Manchester Public Health Development Service

HIV City and Guilds Course in Manchester

posted: 16/09/2010

This City and Guilds qualification, a Level 2 Award in Understanding HIV and AIDS, is designed for people who are interested in HIV and AIDS, or who are working in a job where knowing about HIV would be helpful.
 

So it could be useful for people who work as GPs, nurses, GP reception staff, voluntary workers, probation officers, police officers, teachers, social services staff, staff in drug support services and residential care services, amongst others working in health and social care, as well as interested individuals.
 

This Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) course also runs in Leeds, Birmingham and London, and in Manchester THT runs this course at George House Trust - the first study day is here on 8 October.

The course includes sections on:

• Transmission and prevention of HIV
• Stigma and discrimination in HIV and AIDS
• Managing HIV and AIDS

Joanna Hurren, at City & Guilds, says: “This course is invaluable for anyone wanting to enter a career in the HIV sector. It is also the ideal career development support for someone already working in a role where they need to be aware of issues relating to HIV and AIDS.”

Jackie Redding, Director of Social Care and Service Development for THT said: “We’re delighted to be running this course in Manchester. It raises vital awareness of HIV and gives individuals the knowledge and skills to support individuals affected and tackle the stigma that still sadly exists. I’d encourage anyone interested to get in touch and find out more.”
 

About the course
It is a distance learning course in three units, with two face to face study days in Manchester at George House Trust  (8 October and 3 November), and 44 hours of study time for all units.
 

The course costs £350 + VAT for private sector workers, and £250 + VAT for community and public sector workers - with the possibility of reduction in cases of hardship.
 

Students who have completed the course said:
“The course is a must do for all working in social care or sexual education, no-matter the level.”
“I would recommend the course to anyone non-medically trained working, or hoping to work, in the field of HIV.”
 

Interested?

Sign up for the course, or further information 

or contact Justin Barrett on 020 7812 1727 or email 
 

City and Guilds in HIV and AIDS

posted: 14/04/2010

Terrence Higgins Trust runs an accredited City and Guilds HIV course. The award in understanding HIV and AIDS is a formal qualification to help people improve their own knowledge of HIV to be able to talk confidently with people about HIV. The qualification

• Is for people who want to work within the HIV sector (paid or voluntary)
• Helps people challenge misunderstandings and inaccuracies
• Improves HIV knowledge and supports delivering HIV information to young people in school.

Course content

The qualification is at level 2 of the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF) is awarded on successful completion of three units:

• Unit 001 Transmission and Prevention of HIV (3 credits)
• Unit 002 Stigma and discrimination in HIV and AIDS (3 credits)
• Unit 003 Managing HIV and AIDS (4 credits)

Distance learning

This is a distance learning course, spread over three months and involving attendance at a training centre for two days, one at the start of the course and one at the start of month two.The distance learning course has three units with two face to face study days held in eg central Brighton and 44 hours of study time for all units.

• Day 1 Participants will attend a training centre for Induction and Introduction to Unit 001.
• Month 1 During the first month, participants will work remotely with phone support on course work. The deadline for remote learning on Unit 001 is one month after Day 1.
• Day 2 The second day of attendance at the training centre will take place shortly after completion of unit 001. Day 2 will give an introduction to Unit 002 and Unit 003.
• Months 2 and 3 The deadline for coursework for Unit 002 and Unit 003 is two months after Day 2.

Cost
The cost for ordinary customers is £350 + VAT, but for public and voluntary sector customers £250 + VAT, with the possibility of reductions in cases of hardship.
 

Next courses

• Cardiff: 13th May Day 1 and 17th June Day 2
  
• Brighton: 25th May Day 1 and 23rd June Day 2

Courses are also held in Manchester, Leeds and London - ask when the next local course is planned.

Download an application form, or email,  or ring Justin Barrett on 020 7812 1727

Past students say:
‘The course is a must do for all working in social care or sexual education, no-matter the level.’

‘I would recommend the course to anyone non-medically trained working, or hoping to work, in the field of HIV.’

No Compulsory Sex Education

posted: 08/04/2010

A string of key education reforms – including compulsory sex education that deals with HIV and sexuality for 15 and 16 year-olds – were dropped after the Conservatives refused to back them.
 

Ministers tried to push as much of the Children, Schools and Families bill as they could through parliament before the general election. But most of the proposals were cut out because the two political parties could not agree.
 

The shelved reforms include a move to make sex education compulsory for pupils aged 15 and 16, even if their parents objected.  

Sex, relationships and HIV
Schools would have had to teach about contraception and the importance of stable relationships, including marriage and civil partnerships. Faith schools would have been free, as now, to express their religious views, but would have had to teach the national sex and relationships curriculum.
Mandatory sex education in schools would have helped reduce unwanted pregnancies and infections. It would also have corrected misleading notions about sex that teenagers sometimes pick up.
 

"There was massive support for its implementation from health professionals, teachers, parents and young people themselves. The loss of these subjects as core parts of the curriculum is catastrophic," said Andrew Copson, chief executive of the British Humanist Association. 

A Conservative spokesman said: "We supported having better sex education, but the government insisted on removing parents' rights to withdraw their children from classes they thought damaging. We think parents must have such a right". 
 

Disgraceful betrayal of young
Charities went further and said it was a "disgraceful betrayal of the next generation".
 

Lisa Power, policy director of the Terrence Higgins Trust, said: "The government does not have an excuse that they did not know the date that the election was coming. We will see the impact on young people who haven't had decent sex and relationships education: the girl who gets pregnant because the only education she got was in the playground, the people who use the word 'gay' as an insult. It's a disgraceful betrayal of the next generation. There's been very widespread agreement that young people need better sex and relationships education."
 

Julie Bentley, chief executive of the Family Planning Association, said: "We were on the verge of witnessing a historic breakthrough in the sexual health education of children and young people in England.
 

Balls said: "There is now widespread agreement that statutory PSHE (personal, social, health, and economic education) is essential to prepare young people for adult life, and our reforms would ensure that by reducing the age of parental opt-out to 15, all children receive at least one year of compulsory sex and relationship education. This is a very significant setback, which will deny many young people proper and balanced sex and relationship education."
 

Source - Sex and Relationship Education proposals dropped
Source - Sexual health charities' dismay at loss of compulsory sex and relationship education