African HIV Treatment Training Workshop
The African Eye Trust Manages a National African HIV Treatment Information project which aims at Providing clear HIV treatment information to people living with HIV/AIDS in England Wales and Scotland.
The project workshops are delivered through patient organisations, All our treatment information workshops are delivered by treatment advocates living with HIV and other professionals .
We have four new workshops taking place in October and November 2008 in Manchester and London - see the posters below for more details.
Please find some of our past presentations and workshop posters below.
If your community based organisation is interested join this project please email Abayomi Adegbite MD at
yomi.adegbite@africanEyeTrust.org.uk
Posters
Train to be an Advocate - 30 Oct, 26 and 27 Nov 2008, Manchester.pdf
[226kb]Train to be an Advocate - 17 October 2008, London.pdf
[224kb]Ahead Poster.pdf
[461kb]17th October London.pdf
[224kb]Leeds - 6th December 2007.pdf
[346kb]OPAM Poster.pdf
[458kb]Zambesi Poster.pdf
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Slidesets
Community Support Team Slideset.ppt
[71kb]HIV Treatment Slideset.ppt
[968kb]Treament Workshop Slideset.ppt
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Latest news from aidsmap.com
- CD4 cell count increases sustained up to five years in developing-world treatment programmes
- Excellent outcomes from five years of antiretroviral use in Botswana
- One in five Kenyan patients suffers major interactions with HIV drugs
- HIV treatment safe and effective in South African patients with hepatitis B co-infection, but co-infection frequent
- South African resistance survey confirms that clade C is more likely to develop multi-drug resistance mutation
- Almost half of Africans with HIV in UK are diagnosed late
- HIV prevalence stable among UK injecting drug users
- Third of patients in Botswana have a gene that slows efavirenz clearance and increases risk of CNS side-effects
- Migrants with MDR-TB in southern Africa being dumped off at borders without referrals to care
- More delays in the fight against TB in South Africa


