Prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV in the Comprehensive Care Center

DUTIES• Enrolling into care 100% of adolescents who turn HIV positive.• Booking all adolescents and youth's appointments at the Comprehensive Care Clinics.• Identifying and tracing defaulters across all program areas to promote retention.• Conducting home visits to offer home- based assistance such as home refills, disclosure, high viral load tracing and conducting psychosocial counseling.• Tracing newly identified HIV patients for linkage. • Forming ART clubs… Show more DUTIES• Enrolling into care 100% of adolescents who turn HIV positive.• Booking all adolescents and youth's appointments at the Comprehensive Care Clinics.• Identifying and tracing defaulters across all program areas to promote retention.• Conducting home visits to offer home- based assistance such as home refills, disclosure, high viral load tracing and conducting psychosocial counseling.• Tracing newly identified HIV patients for linkage. • Forming ART clubs and organizing support groups for both adolescents and youth.• Facilitation of psychosocial support groups and conducting health talk on different topics of concern.• Organizing for community outreaches.• Updating registers and providing client adherence and retention data.• Retrieving and filing.• Taking of vitals and measuring clients’ adherence and identifying barriers for adherence.• Coming up with treatment plan for various adherence barriers. Show less

ROLES.• Enrolling into care 100% of clients who turn HIV positive.• Booking all clients appointments at the Comprehensive Care Clinics.• Identifying and tracing defaulters across all program areas to promote retention.• Conducting home visits to offer home- based assistance such as home refils, disclosure, high viral load tracing and conducting psychosocial counseling.• Tracing newly identified HIV patients for linkage.• Forming ART clubs such as PAG (Patient… Show more ROLES.• Enrolling into care 100% of clients who turn HIV positive.• Booking all clients appointments at the Comprehensive Care Clinics.• Identifying and tracing defaulters across all program areas to promote retention.• Conducting home visits to offer home- based assistance such as home refils, disclosure, high viral load tracing and conducting psychosocial counseling.• Tracing newly identified HIV patients for linkage.• Forming ART clubs such as PAG (Patient Advisory Group).• Facilitation of psychosocial support groups.• Organizing for community outreaches.• Updating registers and providing client adherence and retention data.• Retrieving and filing.• Taking of vitals and measuring clients’ adherence and identifying barriers for adherence.• Coming up with treatment plan for various adherence barriers. Show less

DUTIESa) Enrollment of new HIV patients on ART and doing follow up.b) Adherence counseling for new HIV patients, defaulters and patients with high viral load.c) Alcohol assessment using CAGE and CRAFT and referrals for alcohol addicts.d) Depression assessment using PHQ9.e) I was involved in stress management intervention and reducing HIV stigma through support groups.f) I assisted in psychosocial counseling of outpatient clients.g) Taking patient's vitals such as… Show more DUTIESa) Enrollment of new HIV patients on ART and doing follow up.b) Adherence counseling for new HIV patients, defaulters and patients with high viral load.c) Alcohol assessment using CAGE and CRAFT and referrals for alcohol addicts.d) Depression assessment using PHQ9.e) I was involved in stress management intervention and reducing HIV stigma through support groups.f) I assisted in psychosocial counseling of outpatient clients.g) Taking patient's vitals such as pressure, weight, height and MUAC/BMI.h) Participated in field research; Global Programs for Research and Training, Dream Recency Study. It deals with young girls and main duty was HIV screening, testing and giving out PREP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) to prevent the risk of HIV infection among the young girls.i) CME; I helped in educating the staffs on the counseling techniques when dealing with clients so as to create a good rapport and encourage client's self- disclosure.j) Home visits for HIV patients where I had a duty to do pill counts and encourage on proper storage of drugs to improve treatment adherence.k) Writing monthly reports on Family Testing and Lost follow up. Show less