The African network for Care of Children Affected by HIV/AIDS (ANECCA) was established in the year 2001 in response to a growing recognition that in Africa, the needs of children affected by HIV/AIDS had largely been neglected.

To address this problem, ANECCA brings together clinicians and social scientists committed to finding ways of improving the quality of clinical and non-clinical care of children affected by HIV/AIDS, in the Africa region. The Network efforts are targeted at tapping into existing local resources to increase access to, and improve the quality of care provided to HIV affected children in Africa.
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1. Capacity building for paediatric HIV care through training of health workers:

* ANECCA provides technical and logistical support, to various countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, to scale up training of health workers in comprehensive paediatric HIV/AIDS care. Such training programs have been initiated in several countries.

* A team of ANECCA Master Trainers, comprising of senior HIV care paediatricians from several countries in Africa, has been trained in Innovative Training Skills and is available to provide technical assistance to any organization or country that needs to train their health workers in paediatric HIV care.

* ANECCA has established continent-wide networks with various experienced HIV prevention and care/treatment researchers, consultant/senior consultant paediatricians and professors of paediatrics who provide care to HIV-affected children in various countries.

The Network easily mobilizes them to provide technical assistance to equip other health workers with knowledge and skills in paediatric HIV care, treatment and support.

* Contact ANECCA Secretariat at mail@anecca.org or anecca@rcqhc.org for more information on Support and Technical Assistance for training

 

2. Production of Training Materials:

* ANECCA has produced and is disseminating a generic curriculum for training health workers in comprehensive paediatric HIV/AIDS care. The curriculum has been adopted/adapted as a training curriculum in various countries. It is freely available in hard and electronic copies and can be adopted/adapted for use to train various categories of health workers.

See “ANECCA COMPREHENSIVE PAEDIATRIC HIV/AIDS CARE GENERIC TRAINING CURRICULUM” in “publications” on the home page. Both English and French versions are available.

* A curriculum for training nurses is in the process of being developed and will be available soon.

* A curriculum on Paediatric HIV Care Counselling is the process of being developed and will be available soon.

* Contact ANECCA Secretariat at mail@anecca.org or anecca@rcqhc.org for more information on acquisition and use of these materials....More
 

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