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Regional AIDS Training Center and Network for India
(RATNEI) Program
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The Regional
AIDS Training Center & Network for India (RATNEI) program provides
advanced training and capacity development for local health care
workers, including doctors, nurses and community health practitioners,
in HIV/AIDS treatment care and support. Experts from leading health
institutions in the United States and India provide specialized
training sessions in various topics related to HIV/AIDS in order to
slow the spread of the HIV epidemic in India.
Six over-arching topics are covered in
our RATNEI program, each are administered over a 5 day, 40 hour
training course once a month. The following are the topics covered:
- Planning Management and Evaluation
- Health Promotion and Social Marketing
- HIV Prevention, Treatment and Support
- HIV Voluntary Counseling and Testing,
Lab Services
- Advocacy, Activism and Human Rights
- HIV/AIDS Antiretroviral Therapy
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Bihar
Health Minister with President of IHO, Bikash Verma, at a Press Conference for
RATNEI
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Goals of the
RATNEI Program:
- Training medical officers
and para-medical workers of Primary Health Centers and Community Health
Centers in India in HIV detection and prevention and in the management
of AIDS-related illnesses.
- Training
national and state-level administrative personnel to manage HIV/AIDS
program
- Training
laboratory personnel who provide support for HIV/AIDS programs.
- Training
AIDS workers and experts from NGOs, media, communities, human rights
organizations, and women's welfare organizations and shelters.
- Training
to expand the knowledge base and increase the clinical, communication,
interpersonal and technical skills of healthcare workers.
- Training
for the flexibility to adapt to changing needs and circumstances.
- Educating
the general public to improve knowledge of HIV/AIDS and other sexually
transmitted diseases, encourage safer behavior and reduce the stigma
and discrimination against those living with HIV/AIDS.
- RATNEI's AIDS prevention
programs effectively build awareness and bring about behavior
modification in the at-risk public because they are sensitive to local
culture.
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RATNEI in its
3rd Year:
The third round of RATNEI trainings began
in January 2007, and we are expecting an even more successful year in
terms of participation. IHO-RATNEI program has truly established
itself as a center of HIV/AIDS training and education within the region
and is involved with many other state and grassroots level
organizations also working in this area. RATNEI has firmly brought
together AIDS experts, to collaborate and effectively address the issue
of HIV/AIDS in the region. Even more importantly, the multiple
level approach of trainings (advanced for health professionals and
grassroots level for the community) is effectively disseminating
crucial HIV/AIDS information into all sectors of society. During this
round of trainings, we are hoping to grow in our networking portion,
follow-up and retraining of previous trainees, and continue to expand
our programs into other areas of the region.
For a pdf copy of the
RATNEI annual report, please click one of the following:
If you would like a hard
copy of one of the reports mailed to you, please contact administrator (administrator@ihoindia.org).
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HIV/AIDS specialists from around the world
address
RATNEI trainees
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RATNEI TRAINING INFORMATION:
RATNEI Training
Registration Form
RATNEI
Faculty Guide: (for prospective faculty)
United
States version
Indian
version
For questions on specific
modules, participant requirements, or becoming an India or U.S. faculty
member and answers to other questions, please contact the administrator
(administrator@ihousa.org).
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2004 RATNEI Pictures
2005 RATNEI Pictures
2006 RATNEI Pictures
2007 RATNEI Pictures
RATNEI News Clippings
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