The Namibian Ministry of Health and Social Services is rapidly expanding its anti-retroviral therapy (ART) services. The training of health professionals and provision of ART on such a large scale poses many challenges, one of which includes the support to the medical officers in clinics who manage most of the patients. ART is complex and patient complications arise which require the advice and guidance of specialists in HIV and AIDS care. An HIV clinical mentor is an experienced HIV clinician-trainer who provides on-site high level problem solving and decision-making skills, process development, case review, quality assurance, and continuing education in the context of an ongoing personal relationship with clinicians working in government HIV clinics.

The objectives of the Clinical Mentor position are to support decentralized delivery of HIV care, ART, and prevention, and continuous improvement of patient outcomes at all ART delivery sites; promote the application of classroom learning to clinical settings; improve the quality of clinical care and patient outcomes; and build the capacity of primary care providers to provide comprehensive and integrated care using on-site clinical collaboration, consultation and directed support.

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Use req# 57964
This position closes on October 22, 2009.

The International Training & Education Center on Health (I-TECH) is a federally-funded project which supports the development of HIV/AIDS care and treatment training initiatives serving healthcare providers in 25 developing countries acutely impacted by the global AIDS epidemic. I-TECH currently supports 10 international offices and approximately 600 international and domestic staff. I-TECH is an initiative of the University of Washington schools of Medicine and Public Health & Community Medicine and it partners with the University of California, San Francisco.