Khai mạc lớp tập huấn giảng viên giáo dục đồng nhóm phòng, chống HIV/AIDS khu vực phía Bắc

QĐND Online – On the morning of July 22, the Military Medical Department (Ministry of National Defense) in collaboration with the DoD PEPFAR Program opened a training course for trainers on HIV/AIDS prevention and control for new soldiers in the Northern region.​

Subjects participating in the training course are the chiefs of military medical staff of regiments, brigades, divisions, officers of preventive medicine teams, military medical departments of military zones: 1, 2, 3, 4; legion: 1, 2; Air Defense-Air Force. During the training period, the trainees will research and exchange the following contents: Basic knowledge about HIV/AIDS; risk assessment for sexually transmitted infections; group education communication skills…

Group education is a communication model aimed at changing awareness and behavior, organized in small groups of people with the same characteristics and conditions. In the army, participants in group education are non-commissioned officers, especially new soldiers. According to Colonel, Dr. Le Ngoc Anh, Head of the Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Department of Military Medicine, the goal of the training session is to train about 100 trainers in HIV/AIDS prevention and control. After the training, the trainers will organize training at the unit for a total of more than 3,700 platoon leaders, serving as a basis for building a communication system for group education in the units, and at the same time carrying out the training. group training on HIV/AIDS prevention and control for about 50,000 new soldiers in 2014 and 2015.

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