[pronut-hiv] Positive Living: Train the Trainer

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Positive Living : Train the Trainer
Nelspruit, 21-25 August 2006.
 
"HIV is not a death sentence. I have lived with HIV for 23 years. Let us show you how you can do the same, for yourself, your employees, and for those you care about." 
David Patient, Person Living With AIDS since 1983, Co-trainer of Positive Living.
 
Who should attend this training?
Peer educators - Medical practitioners - Community workers - Wellness coordinators - EAP counsellors
 
The Positive Living training – based upon the book Positive Health – is regarded as the bench-mark for interventions aimed at empowering people living with HIV or AIDS to take positive actions to maintain their health. Unlike many similar trainings, Positive Living is based upon extensive research and experience. It combines scientific research regarding medical treatment options, nutrition, plus counselling techniques. 
 
This training has formed the basis for corporate and government programs in 17 countries in Africa. The methods have been assessed by medical and other experts, and found to have solid credentials and cost-effectiveness. 

The training involves two sets of modules:
 
(A) Corporate and Community modules: 
All delegates attend the following modules:
•         The immune system – how it works, how do you explain it to people?
•         Beyond the basics – Intermediate level facts about HIV and AIDS-related issues
•         Stigma – What it is, underlying causes, dealing with it
•         Long-term survivors – Common factors
•         Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) – types, effects, how they work, when needed; how to take them
•         VCT – How to mobilise people to get tested early
•         Health motivation – fundamentals of motivation, how to motivate people to participate in their well-being, including medication and nutrition
•         Nutrition – The basics of immune-focused nutrition
•         Nutrition and ART – Supporting ART with nutrition, interactions between food/herbs and ART
•         Physical immune-support methods – Exercise, metabolic rate, acid/alkaline balance
•         PNI-based counselling – Counselling and support group techniques for immune support
•         Gastro-intestinal health – Taking care of diarrhoea, parasites, counter-acting Wasting
•         Home Remedies – For common (non life threatening) illnesses, Thrush/Yeast infections
 
(B) Corporate or Community options:
Delegates choose between Corporate or Community modules, run concurrently
 
CORPORATE-FOCUSED MODULES:
•         Managing health – Options to consider, costs involved
•         Nutrition at work – Canteens, wellness education methods
•         VCT – How to promote VCT at work
•         Absenteeism – Assessing and monitoring absenteeism
•         Cost analysis – Calculating the direct and indirect costs of HIV/AIDS
•         EAP – Integrating health issues into Employee Assistance Programs
 
COMMUNITY-FOCUSED MODULES:
•         Food security – Methods to increase food security for individuals and communities
•         Water security – Cleaning water, reducing water-borne problems
•         Support groups – how to set them up, what to do in each session
 
 
The above modules have been successfully applied in numerous interventions, large and small. In Mozambique, for example, a national intervention (Vida Positiva /Positive Living) was rolled out over a two-year period, under the auspices of the National AIDS Council. It was assessed and evaluated, and found to be one of the most cost-effective and sustainable interventions in that region's history. Training of trainers has occurred in Lesotho (CARE), Eritrea (UNICEF/Dept.Health), various NGO's and government agencies from Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana, South Africa, to name a few. In 2007 the program will be rolled out in Vietnam and Cambodia. 
 
The corporate modules have also been implemented successfully, such as at Tsogo Sun , CC Africa, Standard Chartered Bank, Shell international, and SAFAM, to name a few.
 
This training limited to 20 delegates only. 
 
Your trainers are David Patient and Neil Orr (MA Psych). Their resum*s may be viewed at:
www.empowermentconcepts.com or www.empow.co.za
 
Training fees: R 7,500-00 (excl VAT).  Includes course fees and materials, accommodation [5 nights], meals and refreshments, airport pick up and drop off from Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport. Transportation to and from Nelspruit (South Africa) is excluded, and is for the account of the delegate/agency/sponsor. 

For more information: Email David Patient at  david@empow.co.za or call 083-226-9466.