Having identified that gaps in pediatric HIV counseling is one of the issues that presents enormous barriers to the scale up of comprehensive quality pediatric HIV care, treatment and support across the sub-Saharan region, and considering that the majority of children affected by HIV can only access health care services in peripheral health units where health workers do not have experience or opportunities to be trained in pediatric HIV care counseling, the Regional Center for Quality of Health Care RCQHC)/African Network for the
Care of Children Affected by AIDS (ANECCA) in collaboration with
Catholic Relief Services and IDSRelief jointly developed these pediatric HIV counseling training curriculum and materials.
The curriculum and materials will be used to rapidly roll-out training of health care providers in key aspects of psychosocial care/counseling for HIV infected children and adolescents and their families, which will in turn, contribute enormously to efforts aimed at taking to scale access to pediatric HIV care in sub-Saharan Africa.