Trainer notes
This training resource uses 8 work units. The format is very simple.
- Sections 1-6 introduce the most important aspects of treatment to a basic standard: the immune system, CD4 count, viral load, natural history of HIV, combination therapy treatment, side effects, opportunistic infections, and HIV and pregnancy.
- Section 7 introduces HIV treatment for injecting drug users: model of comprehensive care, validity and reliability of treatment, drug interactions with methadone and street drugs.
- Section 8 introduces basic concepts from science: graphs, averages, what happens when you take a drug, units of measurement and signs and symbols.
- The aim for each section is to provide a general understanding for each area. This will form the structure for more advanced training and your own research in the future.
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Understanding and completing this course will enable a good grasp of 90% of the issues involved in HIV and treatment.
- It is intended that this course material will be supplemented with resources and activities that you judge are appropriate to your group and locality.
- This course is written for people who do not have a scientific background or medical
training.
- Some of the modules are very short, and have simple questions. This is so
that anyone can start learning about treatment, and in turn pass that information
on to others.
- The material has been written in a way that makes it easier for
you to then explain the information again to other people without a medical
background.
This course is written by treatment advocates who have had no formal medical
training and who are mostly HIV-positive – and we've tried to
remember the biggest surprises that we found as we developed our own treatment
knowledge.
This resource is part of a copyright-free project that is available on the
i-Base website to download in various formats, or to work online. As with
other treatment information produced by i-Base we encourage translations into
other languages.
Learning resources.
Questions.
Contents.
