Marseille 2007
Marseille 2007
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Abstract #306  -  Promoting and spreading community expertise to improve global access to care
Session:
  26.22: Posters B (Poster) on Tuesday   in  Chaired by
Authors:
  Presenting Author:   Ms HENRY Emilie - AIDES, France
 
  Additional Authors:  Dr DEMBELE KEITA Bintou, M. TOURE Mohamed, M. ABALO Alex, M. TRENADO Emmanuel, Miss HENRY Emilie,  
Aim:
How to take up the challenge for scaling-up global access to care and the quality of care services for PLWHAs in a setting where there is a lack of well-trained human resources and a lack of efficient health sector managers ? One solution to contribute to the global care improvement is to promote and spread community expertise by strengthening human resources.
 
Method / Issue:
Description : Since 1997, AIDES has been supporting African organizations fighting AIDS to improve the global care of people living with HIV/AIDS. The Rseau Afrique 2000 (15 organizations from 8 countries) was set up to build a corpus of knowledge based on sharing global HIV care experiences. The main objective of the training activities developed by AIDES and its African partners is to strengthen, promote and spread the community-based extensive expertise for scaling-up the global care of PLWHAs. The Centre Donya was set up in 2002 in Bamako by the organization ARCAD-SIDA with the support of AIDES as the result of the Rseau Afrique 2000 determination to be part of the scaling-up effort. Objectives: -To strengthen the capacities of professionals especially those from the public sector within the global care domains -To recognize the capacities of non-professionals and the place of PLWHAs within the psychosocial care services and to promote their actions
 
Results / Comments:
Realizations: -Development of a community training approach adapted to the public and based on the spread of knowledge, practices and field experiences -37 organization members trained as trainers in their countries and active locally to spread good practices in global care developed by community-based organizations -18 organization members trained as advocators to make the voice of civil society in the South heard, in the international fight against Aids. This experience is currently being extended within the network of AIDES African partners in Central Africa (12 organizations from 7 countries) by the implementation of a training plan aimed at organization members. Objectives: -To strengthen the professionalisation of community-based actors. -To reinforce the community-based organizations role and their place as global care actors Realizations: -Associative life training, project methodology training, global HIV care training, advocacy training were organized in 2006-beginnig 2007 (77 organization members trained)
 
Discussion:
Recommendations : While international initiatives are contributing to the development of global access to care, it is of the utmost importance to show interest in the human resources which will be the ones to implement them. The future of the fight against Aids depends as much on human resources as on financial resources. To reach their ambitious scaling-up global care objectives (from the point of view of quantity and quality), governments must emphasize the professionalisation of community-based actors as a key issue in National Programs to fight against Aids. They must also recognize their expertise to train global HIV care actors from the public sector.
 
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