Education, advocacy, training and UK CAB

Treatment training for advocates
Adapting i-Base materials
UK Community Advisory Board [UK CAB]
World CAB
Treatment training resources online
Start a support group or organise a treatment workshop
Meetings and reports
Global treatment literacy meeting held in Cape Town

Treatment training for advocates: a manual

i-Base has also developed a training manual Treatment training for advocates with eight 2-hour modules that include questions and evaluation. Subjects start from the basics including CD4, viral load and other monitoring tests, combination therapy and side effects, to brief overviews of the main opportunistic infections. There is a module on pregnancy and another module on IV drug users and treatment.

This manual is available in on this website in

English 2007
Czech 2005 PDF only
Hindi 2006 PDF only
Polish 2007 PDF only
Portuguese 2007 PDF only
Nepali 2006 PDF only
Romanian 2007 PDF only
Russian 2005 PDF only
Serbian 2007 PDF only
Slovak 2005 PDF only

also on the EATG web site in

Russian
English

Adapting i-Base materials

i-Base materials have been adapted by other activist groups.

UK Community Advisory Board

The UK Community Advisory Board (UK CAB) is a network for community treatment workers across the UK that was set up by i-Base in May 2002.

Since 2006 a Steering Group of eight UK-CAB members plans and programmes meetings and co-ordinates development of the project. i-Base continues to provide administrative support.

Three main aspects of the UK-CAB are:

to develop and strengthen a network of advocates connected by an email treatment discussion list.
to provide expert training on current treatment issues - the UK-CAB holds four full-day meetings a year, each attended by 20-30 advocates. Each meeting includes two training lectures and a meeting with a pharmaceutical company or leading researcher.
The educational programme developed with the UK-CAB includes pre-meeting reading material, PowerPoint slides used in the meeting, and reports and transcripts from individual meetings and presentations. All this material is posted to the website as an online resource for other organisations and individuals to use.
to develop a democratic system for community representation on trial and guidelines advisory and steering committees (for example on MRC studies and BHIVA working committees) and a network for representatives to actively engage and report back to a community network.
The UK-CAB connects over 150 members from over 100 organisations.

World CAB

World CAB is a forum for treatment advocates to meet with pharmaceutical companies over pricing and access issues. Members attending meetings represent advocates from the International Treatment Preparedness network, which includes over 400 advocates from over 100 countries.

Reports from World CAB meetings are available as a PDF.

Treatment training resources online

i-Base maintains a directory of training resources – PDF, Word and PowerPoint files to download and links to treatment literacy resources online.

These resources have been provided by members of the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC).

This is a communal space for organisations who do not have websites to post training material so that it can be easily accessed by other individuals and organisations.

Training material is organised by language, and links to material that is available online on other sites is also included.

How to submit material for the ITPC treatment training resources pages.

Start a support group or organise a treatment workshop

i-Base can offer speakers on any aspect of HIV treatment to any support groups in the UK. For example this could be a simple ‘question and answer’ workshop or a talk to cover latest research from a recent HIV conference. We can sometimes find specialist speakers if we can’t cover a topic ourselves. We are very happy to help programme a series of workshops that covers different aspects of treatment.

If you would like to arrange a speaker or workshop please contact the i-Base office.

Recent i-Base treatment workshops have been organised with the following groups.

Meetings and reports

We have held a series of meetings on the clinical management of HIV infection