Organization: International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
Registration deadline: 15 Jul 2016
Starting date: 26 Sep 2016
Ending date: 05 Oct 2016
The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease's Training and Education department will have a training course on Principles of Tuberculosis Care and Prevention: Translating Knowledge to Action, from 26 September- 5 October 2016, in New Delhi, India.
Course Title: Principles of Tuberculosis Care and Prevention: Translating Knowledge to Action
Course Date: 26 September- 5 October 2016
Course Location: New Delhi, India
Application Deadline: 15 July 2016
This course will provide the knowledge and skills to senior programme staff and other health professionals, to improve management of persons with tuberculosis (TB) and strengthen programmatic practices.
Target Audience: Specialists, medical and clinical officers, nurses, laboratory technicians, monitoring and evaluation officers, TB and HIV/AIDS, and non-communicable diseases and tobacco control programme staff and health policy and decision makers, who are primarily from low- and middle-income countries.
Upon completion of this course the participants will be able to:
Understand the bacteriological and epidemiological basis for the principles of effective TB patient care and programme management.
Understand transmission of TB bacilli and pathogenesis of TB.
Diagnose TB infection and disease.
Treat and provide support to persons with TB exposure, infection and disease.
Record, report, analyse and use data on TB case finding and treatment for decision making at all levels of health care.
Describe the epidemiology of TB, drug-resistant TB and TB in at-risk populations, including persons living with HIV.
Monitor and evaluate TB programme activities and provide support and supervision to providers working at different levels of health care.
Work collaboratively with various health care programmes and providers to further strengthen quality patient care and programme management at the various levels and functions of the NTP
How to register:
To learn more about this course and register, visit us at http://www.theunion.org/what-we-do/courses/tb-and-mdr-tb/principles-of-tuberculosis-care-and-prevent...