PrEP Training of Trainers
In fulfilling its mandate to build capacity for National AIDS Programme (NAP) Managers and representatives of civil society organisations (CSOs), the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) collaborated with Jamaica AIDS Support for Life (JASL) to conduct a training of trainers in PrEP for HIV.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) of HIV infection as the use of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs by people who do not have HIV infection to prevent the acquisition of HIV and recommends that people of substantial risk should be offered PrEP.
PrEP is considered a key prevention modality and should be an additional prevention choice in a comprehensive package of services that also includes HIV testing, screening and management of sexually transmitted infections, counseling, male and female condoms, lubricants, ARV treatment for partners with HIV infection, voluntary medical male circumcision and harm reduction interventions for people who use drugs.
This initiative was funded by PANCAP USAID Project through the Caribbean Regional PEPFAR Programme based in Jamaica. The training was held in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on the 16-18 August 2022.
PREP TRAINING
Participants were clinical practitioners, community implementers and advocates from government, private health sector, and civil society. Participating countries were Belize, Jamaica, Guyana, Saint Lucia, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.
The training built capacities across clinical aspects of PrEP services and administration, understanding referrals and linkages approach to PrEP, communication and messaging and monitoring and evaluation.
The training was conducted by JASL technical staff. Additional resource persons were from USAID and PANCAP. The training was delivered through five modules.
- Module 1:PrEP Basics
- Module 2: PrEP screening
- Module 3: PrEP initial and follow up visits
- Module 4: Oral PrEP messaging and PrEP practicals
- Module 5: Oral PrEP Monitoring and Evaluation
Participants will return to their countries and will serve the resource persons to support the implementation, scale up and monitoring of their national PrEP programmes.
CERTIFICATE AWARD
MONITORING AND EVALUATION
In addition to the pre and post-test assessments, participants completed a post-event evaluation that provided useful feedback on the training course.
- 87% of respondents strongly agreed and agreed that the training objectives were met
- 87% of respondents strongly agreed and agreed that their personal expectations were met
- 87% of respondents strongly agreed and agreed that the course content was relevant to their work
Participants Feedback
Excellent presenting team, vibrant learning group, solid content. 10/10.
Throughly enjoyed this training. The interactive sessions were most effective for learning best practices from other countries.
This was a very enjoyable informative workshop which gave practical tools for implementation. Congrats to the team
This was a great workshop. I plan to take your model and use it to develop my country's model for prep roll out
PANCAP PrEP Knowledge Suite
PANCAP in collaboration with PAHO and other partners developed a PrEP knowledge suite with information for different audiences. The knowledge suite contains:
- social media cards with messages to increase awareness and knowledge and create demand for PrEP among the key populations.
- technical documents such as generic Caribbean PrEP guidelines, client intake and follow-up forms, PreP register and other programmatic documents that can be adapted for national use.
- recordings of trainings, webinars, and other educational events on PrEP.
Acknowledgement
We express our appreciation to USAID for funding this activity. Thanks to Ms. Kandasi Levermore and the JASL team for leading the training.
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