For the next 5 days 24 Community Nurses' Aides will be undergoing training on how to attend to patients suffering with HIV/Aids. As the frontline personnel in the healthcare system especially in the rural areas, nurses training in HIV/Aids is extremely important.
Minerva Jolly,
"The ministry of health is putting the funds so every Community Nurses' Aide in the country is trained to take care of persons with Aids. But we are also teaching the importance of confidentiality. We are teaching ethics. We are teaching responsibility. We teaching about living and about death. We are giving a lot of information. We want these women to go out in their villages and make everyone in the community aware."
The training will be conducted countrywide for all Community Nurses Aides.
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