This new award will allow I-TECH to fight the spread of HIV in Zimbabwe by rapidly scaling up training and mentoring of the country’s medical staff.

The $42.9 million award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will enable I-TECH to support the country’s Ministry of Health and Child Care (MOHCC) in training healthcare workers throughout the country in an integrated approach to care and treatment of HIV. This will also involve developing a robust clinical mentoring program using innovative approaches such as distance learning and live phone, email, text, and online support. I-TECH will also support the MOHCC in storing and tracking clinical training data in a comprehensive, adaptable and user-friendly database called TrainSMART.

“This project represents a massive scale up of clinical training and mentoring in Zimbabwe, and we’ll be working with a large number of local partners to achieve it. As usual with I-TECH, the efforts of all partners are focused on capacitating the MOHCC to provide sustained leadership in clinical training for the country,” said Ann Downer, Executive Director for I-TECH and Principal Investigator on the I-TECH Zimbabwe training grant.

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