Learners’ perspectives on training for HIV management in sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from the AFREhealth HIV project
The training approach adopted by the AFREhealth HIV project has proven to be highly effective. The project has thus continued to target final-year health professional students and working health professionals at affiliated training sites, with module workshops being offered both online and onsite.Contribution: Collaborative and interprofessional approaches to training health professionals for HIV management can improve knowledge, skills and, very importantly, attitudes, with the potential thus to improve the quality of team-based care provided especially in low-resource settings.
Authors
- Edward T. Dassah (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9533-7831)
- Onesmus Gachuno (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5367-8462)
- Fátima Suleman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8559-9168)
- Ian D. Couper (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1587-6075)
- Keneilwe Motlhatlhedi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8225-6357)
- Shayanne Martin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-9802-6354)
- Clara Haruzivishe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3189-1363)
- Maeve Forster (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1104-2359)
- Miliard Derbew (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0208-9742)
- Michael Reid (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6777-9619)
- Catherine Ngoma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5564-6544)
- Deborah von Zinkernagel
- Marietjie de Villiers (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5431-3801)
- Georgina N. Odaibo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8430-0147)
- Abigail Kazembe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5471-7299)
- Nisha Nadesan-Reddy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7282-0898)
- David Sears (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3854-6482)
- Manoko Innocentia Lediga
Institutions
- University of Nairobi (KE)
- University of Zimbabwe (ZW)
- University of Botswana (BW)
- University of Health Science (KH)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- University of Ibadan (NG)
- Stellenbosch University (ZA)
- Kamuzu Central Hospital (MW)
- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (GH)
- University of Zambia (ZM)
- Kwame Nkrumah University (ZM)
- Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (MW)
- Addis Ababa University (ET)
- University of KwaZulu-Natal (ZA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
- Published
- 2025-10-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.4102/phcfm.v17i1.4789
- Primary Topic
- Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00