USAID and GlaxoSmithKline Support HIV Training
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| USAID/Russia Mission Director Leon Waskin presents a certificate to Svetlana Lyshenka at the end of the training workshop under USAID’s partnership with GlaxoSmithKline and the American International Health Alliance. |
On March 16-18, 2009, the American International Health Alliance (AIHA) and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) held their fourth training workshop under the USAID-funded Russia Professional Development in HIV Medicine project.
Launched in October 2007, the project is a public-private initiative to strengthen HIV knowledge and skills among medical professionals in high-burden Russian regions using interactive clinical training, distance learning and professional mentoring. The project uses the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care’s Global AIDS Learning and Evaluation Network (GALEN) modules, a medical training and certification initiative particularly well suited to treating HIV in limited-resource settings. With USAID support, AIHA translated the GALEN modules and more than 600 other resources into Russian, and made them available through its online EurasiaHealth AIDS Knowledge Network.
At the March workshop, 33 clinicians from 19 regions studied advanced principles of HIV/AIDS care at St. Petersburg’s Botkin Hospital. The training focused on managing patients co-infected with tuberculosis, hepatitis, and other infections, and also addressed issues of drug resistance and improving treatment adherence among patients who are active drug users.
AIHA and GSK were joined at the closing ceremony by USAID/Russia Mission Director Leon Waskin and experts from the Russian Federal AIDS Center, Botkin Hospital, St. Petersburg TB Hospital No. 2, and the Goethe Hospital of Frankfurt, Germany.
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