RE: [pronut-hiv] Positive Living with HIV/AIDS Training: Interested (2)

["Claver Ahouansou" <pcahouansou@yahoo.fr>]

    Hi David,
I am very interested in your training and would the training to take place in Cotonou, Benin.  
  
 Pierre- Claver Ahouansou  
 08 BP 85 ONG RACINES 
  COTONOU  BENIN

> --- David Patient wrote:
> 
> > Invitation for Partner Organisations:
> > Positive Living HIV/AIDS Trainings
> >  
> > Empowerment Concepts (members: David Patient, one
> of
> > the
> > longest-surviving people living with HIV, and Neil
> > Orr, Research
> > Psychologist and author of Positive Health) is a
> > Southern African based
> > training and development company.  They are
> inviting
> > partner
> > organizations to help them deliver their highly
> > successful training,
> > Positive Living, to other countries in Africa.
> >  
> > The training is directed mainly at maintaining
> > optimum health in the
> > period from initial HIV infection to just before
> > AIDS, and thereafter,
> > support methods for ARV's: 
> > *     Basic nutritional guidelines for food &
> > nutritional security.
> > Includes training in setting up low-water and
> > low-labour Home Gardens,
> > and education on the importance of a 'balanced'
> > diet. 
> > *     Focused nutritional advice for immune
> > enhancement: I.e., what
> > easy-to-obtain foods to eat to keep the immune
> > system at an optimal
> > level. 
> > *     Maintaining gastrointestinal health: Dealing
> > with diarrhoea and
> > Wasting Syndrome.
> > *     Easy-to-use at-home methods (clean water,
> > exercise, home remedies
> > for common non-life-threatening conditions).
> > *     Psychological coping methods to reduce
> stress
> > and increase health
> > motivation.
> > *     Optimising ARV treatment benefits through
> > nutrition, compliance,
> > and knowledge of interaction effects with various
> > foods and plants.
> >  
> > The details of the above methods are described in
> > the book Positive
> > Health (4th Edition, 2004).
> > The methods are promoted as a complementary
> > approach, in support of
> > proper medical treatment, including ARV's.
> Actuarial
> > analysis of some of
> > the methods indicate a life-extension effect of
> > approximately 4.4 years,
> > prior to commencement of ARV's. I.e., extension of
> > the pre-AIDS period.
> > Research supporting the methods may be obtained
> from
> > the authors. 
> >  
> > The training is tool-focused and occurs over five
> > days. Positive Living
> > is designed to give people tools that they can use
> > to empower themselves
> > into taking action to support health and
> longevity,
> > regardless as to HIV
> > status. To-date, over 2000 people have been
> trained
> > in these medically
> > researched and proven methods. Our current
> footprint
> > includes
> > Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, India, Eritrea,
> > Lesotho, Swaziland, South
> > Africa, and Zimbabwe. We have also trained people
> > from Cameroon,
> > Madagascar, Nigeria, and Ghana. Clients include
> > UNICEF, UNDP, CARE,
> > World Vision, CC Africa, Tsogo Gaming, plus
> numerous
> > open-to-all
> > trainings, and corporate Wellness programs. The
> > program has also been
> > delivered country-wide in Mozambique (Programa
> Vida
> > Positiva), for the
> > National AIDS Council
> >  
> > Empowerment Concepts (EC) is looking to take this
> > process into other
> > countries where there is an interest and a need
> for
> > Positive Living
> > methods and information. It is more cost effective
> > for the EC trainers
> > to travel to other countries than for delegates to
> > come to our training
> > centre in South Africa. Delegates from some
> > countries in Africa - e.g.,
> > from West Africa - struggle to get visas to enter
> > South Africa. The
> > program is suitable for large groups of up to 100
> > people and is easily
> > translatable, so language need not be a barrier to
> > people accessing this
> > vital information.
> >  
> > If your organization is interested in possibly
> > hosting the Positive
> > Living training in your home country, please
> contact
> > David Patient at
> > david@empow.co.za to discuss course content,
> > logistics, costs, and other
> > issues.
> >  
> >  
> > David R. Patient (M.H.;M.H.T.)
> > Empowerment Concepts
> > Ph. +27-83-226-9466 
> > Fax to email +27-086-674-7940
> > david@empow.co.za
> > www.empowermentconcepts.com
> > www.empow.co.za
> >  
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> >
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