Training Course

Clinical Epidemiology and Management of HIV/AIDS

When : July 2008
Duration : 4 weeks
Participants : 10-20 persons

 

Content

  1. Review of epidemiology: principles, study design
  2. Survival, life tables, years of potential life lost
  3. Health indicators: HALE, DALE, DALYs
  4. HIV: virology, immunology
  5. Epidemiology and response to AIDS: Thailand experience
  6. HIV: molecular epidemiology
  7. HIV: diagnostic test
  8. Clinical manifestations and opportunistic infections
  9. Skin manifestations in HIV/AIDS
  10. HIV: treatment and management
  11. ARV and HIV resistance
  12. Practical ARV, applied therapeutic drug monitoring and drug interaction
  13. Post exposure prophylaxis
  14. HIV/AIDS management in the community
  15. HIV counseling techniques
  16. Information communication technology for HIV/AIDS-preventive education
  17. STDs
  18. HIV vaccine
  19. Country presentation on epidemiology of HIV/AIDS from participants?�? countries, etc.
  20. Study visits: Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Phayao, Chonburi

 

 

Contact

The Deputy Dean for International Relations
Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University
420/6 Ratchawithi Road, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
E-mail: tmpat@mahidol.ac.th
Tel: 66 (0) 2 354 9100-19 ext. 1315, 1667
Fax: 66 (0) 2 354 9163
Or
International Relations Unit
Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University
420/6 Ratchawithi Road, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
E-mail: tmirunit@diamond.mahidol.ac.th
Tel: 66 (0) 2 354 9100-19 ext. 1318, 1327
Fax: 66 (0) 2 354 9141