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Community Home-Based Care for People and Communities: A Handbook for HIV/AIDS Community Health Workers

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Published in PDF format from Pathfinder International, this handbook is for home health care workers in the field of HIV/AIDS prevention, care, treatment, and support. For those training in home-based health care through a course entitled "Community Home-Based Care (CHBC) for People and Communities Living with HIV/AIDS", this handbook is the trainee edition which accompanies the course training guide, also created by Pathfinder International and available at the same website.

The handbook chapters cover the identical chapter topics in the training guide. However, where the training guide provides written content for the training of CBHC workers, the handbook is more heavily illustrated to provide the field support necessary for guiding the caregiver and instructing the patient for self care. It is designed to serve people of various literacy levels.

Handbook Chapters (available individually):
    Table of Contents, Acknowledgments, Acronyms
  • Unit 1: Introduction
  • Unit 2: Facts about HIV/AIDS and People Living with HIV/AIDS
  • Unit 3: Community Home-Based Care: The Basics
  • Unit 4: Our Bodies and Safer Sex
  • Unit 5: Communication
  • Unit 6: CHBC in Your Community
  • Unit 7: Positive Living
  • Unit 8: Nutrition
  • Unit 9: Basic Nursing Care
  • Unit 10: Managing and Treating AIDS-Related Conditions
  • Unit 11: Transferring Skills to Clients and Caregivers
  • Unit 12: Taking Care of Yourself
  • Unit 13: Record Keeping
  • Unit 14: CHBC Practicum
  • Advanced Unit 15: Expanded Role of the Community Health Worker
  • Advanced Unit 16: Family Planning
  • Advanced Unit 17: Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV
  • Advanced Unit 18: Antiretroviral Therapy (ART)
  • Advanced Unit 19: CHBC for Groups Needing Special Attention
Click here to access each chapter individually as a downloadable PDF document.

Click here to download the full handbook as a PDF document.

Publishers

Number of Pages
308 pages
Source

Press release from Pathfinder International on November 27 2006.

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 23:34 Permalink

hi, i am a counselor and focal person consolidation of home based care for PLWHA and community HIV/AIDS working with AIDS care education and training - (ACET) based in kitgum district, notthern part of uganda. indeed i have found great resource to train community home based care workers in my project areasof operation. i am so grateful i got aglimpse of this website.
may the good lord guide all the officers in your organisation who are resource persons for materials development.
and this is what i have to say
"MANY YEARS FROM NOW THE WORLD MAY BE DIFFERENT BECAUSE WE WERE IMPORTANT IN THE LIFE OF THOSE IN NEED"
God bless you
CONSOLATE APIO - ACET (U)-KITGUM,UGANDA

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 08/06/2009 - 06:10 Permalink

Hello, this is pretty good web site, Found great Manuals for capacity building to Organisations and individuals carring out Home Based Care for people living with HIV/AIDS. As a trainer this site is Good, Please post me more documents as you develope them ( ejesfelix@yahoo.ca). Be blessed as we all work hard to add life on days not days on life. Thak you. Felix ejessu(ARC, GULU, UGANDA).