HIV and AIDS notes for diploma in social work
HIV/AIDS COURSE OUTLINE
AIM/PURPOSE OF THE COURSE:
This module unit is designed to equip the trainee with knowledge, skills and attitudes that will enable him/her to handle and care for people leaving with HIV/AIDS.
Topics covered:
COURSE OUTLINE
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
a) Definition of terms b) Types of HIV
c) Justification of the course
d) Origins, theories and history of HIV/AIDS
e) Sex and sexuality
f) Global distribution and trends of HIV/AIDS- Comparative trends (statistics locally and globally)
BIOLOGY OF HIV
a) Nature of HIV
b) Structure of HIV
c) Lifecycle of HIV
d) Human Immune System- an overview
e) The effects of HIV on the immune system
TRANSMISSION OF HIV
a) The modes of HIV transmission b) Pregnancy and HIV/AIDS
c) STIs, STDs, FGM and HIV/AIDS
DISEASE PROGRESSION AND SYMPTOMS.
TREATMENT OF HIV/AIDS
a) Diagnosis of HIV
b) Anti retroviral therapy (ART)
c) ARVS and AIDS vaccines
MANAGEMENT OF HIV/AIDS
a) Proper nutrition b) Living positively
c) Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT)
d) Home Based Care (HBC)
PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF HIV/AIDS
a) Safer sex strategies
b) Abstinence
c) Being faithful
d) Condom use
e) Destigmatize
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL PRACTICES
a) Practices that promote /reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS
b) Religion and HIV/AIDS
c) Gender and HIV/AIDs d) Poverty and HIV/AIDs e) Drugs and HIV/AIDs
f) Social stigma on HIV/AIDS
g) Behavioral change
POLICIES AND RIGHTS OF PLWHAs
IMPLICATIONS OF HIV/AIDS
a) Impacts on individuals, families, community b) Demographic impacts- population
c) Multi-sectorall impact (Education, Agriculture, Economy, Health, Industry and
Business)
