Community Home-Based Care for People and Communities: A Comprehensive Training Course for Community Health

This web-based publication from Pathfinder International is a trainer's manual for instructing community health workers in the care of clients with HIV, as well as in the training of their caregivers.

This pre-tested and peer-reviewed training curriculum, available in PDF or CD-Rom format, focuses on the knowledge and skills necessary for providing holistic community home-based care for people living with HIV/AIDS, transferring knowledge and skills to caregivers and clients, and mobilising communities around HIV/AIDS prevention, care, treatment, and support. The trainer’s guide uses simple language and emphasises a participatory learning methodology that does not require high literacy levels of participants. It includes comprehensive units that cover topics from HIV basics, communication skills, nursing care, nutrition, positive living, HIV prevention, teaching others, record keeping, community mobilisation and a practicum.

Five advanced units cover the expanded role of the community health worker, family planning, preventing mother-child transmission, antiretroviral therapy, and groups needing special attention.

It is accompanied by an illustrated handbook for community health workers to be used as a field reference. The handbook is entitled Communities Living with HIV/AIDS: A Handbook for Community Health Workers, available at the same website.

Click here to access each chapter individually as a downloadable PDF document.

Click here to download full training manual in PDF format.