- Education
Education is an important element of the Department of HIV, not only for its growing team of specialists and consultants, based in Paris, Myanmar, Uganda, DRC and Zimbabwe, but also for all categories of health personnel participating in development of collaborative TB/HIV services and Integrated HIV Care for Tuberculosis Patients Living with HIV/AIDS (IHC) in particular.
In conjunction with the funding from USAID, and in collaboration with the Ugandan National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Programme and the National AIDS Control Programme, The Union developed the first joint TB and HIV Programme Managers Course which was held in Jinja, Uganda, in March 2008.
The Union’s Department of HIV held its inaugural course: “Working Together - Strengthening the Implementation of Collaborative TB/HIV Activities” from April 19 – 23, 2010 in Lilongwe, Malawi, the objective of which was to improve the country-level implementation of collaborative TB/HIV activities, as measured by achievement against selected key indicators from the Global Plan to Stop TB. Malawi, Uganda and Zimbabwe’s National TB and HIV Programme Managers, their TB/HIV focal persons, the World Health Organization National Professional Officers and an activist from each country, as well as guests from South Africa, UNAIDS, the United States Agency for International Development and Management Sciences for Health were invited to both participate and contribute to course development through an extensive evaluation session. The course programme covered the major components of the 13 collaborative TB/HIV activities. In addition, there were sessions on ‘The role of patients and the community in strengthening TB/HIV collaboration’ and controversial issues (TB preventive therapy for persons living with HIV/AIDS and the use of anti-retroviral therapy for reducing incidence of TB and HIV). Activities included: interactive presentations, exercises and data review; group work on various tasks that were developed to guide the country teams to prepare their action plans; and preparation and presentation of country action plans to strengthen TB/HIV collaboration. The inaugural course was funded by a grant from NORAD. The next iteration of the course will be held in South Africa in October 2010, and Union staff are in discussions with officials in Latin America, Central Asia and China to expand the international reach of this course.
In addition, Union HIV experts attend international conferences, run workshops, post-graduate courses, poster sessions and hold symposia at The Union’s World Conference on Lung Health.
• The flyer for the HIV and TB/HIV symposia at 2010 conference (PDF 82Ko)
Publications
• Mauch V, Weil D, Munim A, Boillot F, Coninx R, Huseynova S, Powell C, Seita A, Wembanyama H, van den Hof S. Structure and management of tuberculosis control programs in fragile states – Afghanistan, DR Congo, Haiti, Somalia. Health Policy 2010; 96: 118-127.
• Nabbuye-Sekandi J, Okot-Chono R, Rusen ID, Dlodlo RA, Katamba A, Tumwesigye NM, Fujiwara PI. Factors associated with human immunodeficiency virus testing among tuberculosis patients receiving treatment at health facilities in Uganda. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2010: 14(7): 896-902. Link
• Aït-Khaled N, Alarcon E, Bissell K, Boillot F, Caminero JA, Chiang C-Y, Clevenbergh P, Dlodlo R, Enarson DA, Enarson P, Ferroussier O, Fujiwara PI, Harries ADH, Heldal E, Hinderaker SG, Kim SJ, Lienhardt C, Rieder HL, Rusen ID, Trébucq A, Van Deun A, Wilson N. Isoniazid preventive therapy for people living with HIV: public health challenges and implementation issues. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2009; 13(8): 927-935. Link
• Harries AD, Zachariah R, Lawn SD. Providing HIV care for co-infected tuberculosis patients: a perspective from sub-Saharan Africa. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2009; 13(1): 6-16. Link
• Okot-Chono R, Mugisha F, Adatu F, Madraa E, Dlodlo R, Fujiwara P. Health system barriers affecting the implementation of collaborative TB-HIV services in Uganda. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2009; 13(8): 955–961. Link
• Monleau M, Montavon C, Laurent C, Segondy M, Montes B, Delaporte E, Boillot F, Peeters M. Evaluation of different RNA extraction methods and storage conditions of dried plasma or blood spots for HIV-1 RNA quantification and PCR amplification for drug resistance testing. J Clin Microbiol 2009; 47(4): 1107-1118. Link
• WHO Stop TB Partnership. Overcoming barriers to implementation of collaborative TB/HIV services in Uganda. TBHIV Update, March 2008. Link
• Harries AD, Schouten EJ, Makombe SD, Libamba E, Neufville HN, Some E, Kadewere G, Lungu D. Ensuring uninterrupted supplies of antiretroviral drugs in resource-poor settings: an example from Malawi. Bull World Health Organ 2007; 85: 152-155. Link
• World Health Organization. Tuberculosis infection control in the era of expanding HIV care and treatment – Addendum to WHO Guidelines for the Prevention of Tuberculosis in Health Care Facilities in Resource-Limited Settings. Geneva, Switzerland: WHO, 2007. Link
• HIV infection in low-income, high-burden settings, Edited by J. F. Murray: Series on TB-HIV published in the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease in 2005
Editorial: Harries A D. HIV/AIDS: the epidemic, its impact and turning the tide. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2005; 9 (5): 471-474. Link
o N° 2 Graham S. Non-tuberculosis opportunistic infections and other lung diseases in HIV-infected infants and children. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2005; 9 (6): 592-602. Link
o N° 3 Jeena P. Role of HIV infection in acute respiratory infections among children in sub-Saharan Africa. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2005; 9 (7): 708-715. Link
o N° 4 Murray J M. Pulmonary complications of HIV-1 infection among adults living in sub-Saharan Africa. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2005; 9 (8): 826-835. Link
o N° 5 Fujiwara P I, Clevenbergh P, Dlodlo R A. Management of adults living with HIV/AIDS in low income, high-burden settings, with special reference to persons with tuberculosis. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2005; 9 (9): 946-958. Link
o N° 6 Libamba E, Makombe S, Harries A D, Chimzizi R, Salaniponi F M, Schouten E J, Mpazanje R. Scaling up antiretroviral therapy in Africa: learning from tuberculosis control programmes – the case of Malawi. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2005; 9(10): 1062-1071. Link
• Dlodlo R.A, Fujiwara P.I, Enarson D.A. Should tuberculosis treatment and control be addressed differently in HIV-infected and -uninfected individuals? Eur Respir J 2005; 25: 751–757. Link
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