Organization: International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
Registration deadline: 09 Jan 2017
Starting date: 13 Feb 2017
Ending date: 22 Feb 2017
The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease will have a training course on Principles of Tuberculosis Care and Prevention from 13-22 February 2017, in New Delhi, India.
Course Title: Principles of Tuberculosis Care and Prevention: Translating Knowledge to Action
Course Date: 13-22 February 2017
Application Deadline: 9 January 2017
Objectives:
- To understand the bacteriological and epidemiological basis of effective tuberculosis patient care and programme management
- To understand transmission of TB bacilli and pathogenesis of tuberculosis
- To understand diagnosis and treatment of TB infection and disease, including drug-resistant tuberculosis
- To record, report, analyse and use data on TB case finding and treatment for decision-making at all levels of healthcare
- To work collaboratively with various healthcare programmes and providers to further strengthen quality patient care and programme management
Who Should Attend: This course is designed for specialists, medial and clinical officers, nurses, laboratory technicians, monitoring and evaluation officers, Tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/AIDS, and non-communicable diseases and tobacco control programme staff and health policy and decision makers who are primarily working in low- and middle-income countries.
This course has been developed to drive the way towards tuberculosis elimination. Health professionals need to understand the principles of TB care, control and prevention and require the skills to manage patients and work with National Tuberculosis Programmes. Previously known as the International TB course, this course has been in existence for several decades.
The main goal of this course is to provide the knowledge and skills to senior programme staff and other health professionals to improve the management of persons with TB and strengthen programmatic practices. It has pre-course online, classroom and field components.
Faculty: Riitta Dlodlo, Dinar Heldal, Sarabjit Chadha, Jamie Tonsing
How to register:
To learn more about this course, click on http://www.theunion.org/what-we-do/courses/tb-and-mdr-tb/principles-of-tuberculosis-care-and-prevention-translating-knowledge-to-action-2017
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