,National Comprehensive
HIV Prevention, Care and
Treatment Training
Participant Manual
MOH-ETHIOPIA
March/2025
,FORWARD
The Ethiopian Health Policy takes decentralization as a principle that guides the efforts to improve
quality and coverage of preventive and curative health services. In this effort, the role of health workers
assumes a central position. It is well known that a large segment of the Ethiopian population gets
primary care from these health workers. In addition to decentralization maintaining and improving the
quality of care provided at all levels of the health care tier is critical through capacity building.
Therefore, this comprehensive HIV prevention, care and treatment training manual is primarily intended
to build the capacity of health workers at all levels with recent updates like Index case testing, PrEP, and
third-line ARVs so that they can be confident enough to solicit and test high risks, provide combination
prevention or initiate ART and follow clients on chronic HIV/AIDS care. It is our hope that health
workers, managers and trainers will benefit from this updated manual.
I would like also to take this opportunity to thank all contributors who have involved in the
development of the training material.
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, APPROVAL STATEMENT OF THE MINISTRY
The Ministry of health of Ethiopia has been working towards standardization and institutionalization of
In-Service Trainings (IST) at national level. As part of this initiative, the ministry developed a national
in-service training directive and implementation guide for the health sector. The directive requires all in-
service training materials fulfill the standards set in the implementation Guide to ensure the quality of in-
service training materials. Accordingly, the ministry reviews and approves existing training materials
based on the IST standardization checklist annexed on the IST implementation guide.
As part of the national IST quality control process, this National Comprehensive HIV Prevention, Care
and Treatment Training for Healthcare Providers package has been reviewed based on the
standardization checklist and approved by the ministry in March, 2025.
Assegid Samuel Cheru
Human Resource Development and Improvement
Lead executive officer
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HIV Prevention, Care and
Treatment Training
Participant Manual
MOH-ETHIOPIA
March/2025
,FORWARD
The Ethiopian Health Policy takes decentralization as a principle that guides the efforts to improve
quality and coverage of preventive and curative health services. In this effort, the role of health workers
assumes a central position. It is well known that a large segment of the Ethiopian population gets
primary care from these health workers. In addition to decentralization maintaining and improving the
quality of care provided at all levels of the health care tier is critical through capacity building.
Therefore, this comprehensive HIV prevention, care and treatment training manual is primarily intended
to build the capacity of health workers at all levels with recent updates like Index case testing, PrEP, and
third-line ARVs so that they can be confident enough to solicit and test high risks, provide combination
prevention or initiate ART and follow clients on chronic HIV/AIDS care. It is our hope that health
workers, managers and trainers will benefit from this updated manual.
I would like also to take this opportunity to thank all contributors who have involved in the
development of the training material.
ii
, APPROVAL STATEMENT OF THE MINISTRY
The Ministry of health of Ethiopia has been working towards standardization and institutionalization of
In-Service Trainings (IST) at national level. As part of this initiative, the ministry developed a national
in-service training directive and implementation guide for the health sector. The directive requires all in-
service training materials fulfill the standards set in the implementation Guide to ensure the quality of in-
service training materials. Accordingly, the ministry reviews and approves existing training materials
based on the IST standardization checklist annexed on the IST implementation guide.
As part of the national IST quality control process, this National Comprehensive HIV Prevention, Care
and Treatment Training for Healthcare Providers package has been reviewed based on the
standardization checklist and approved by the ministry in March, 2025.
Assegid Samuel Cheru
Human Resource Development and Improvement
Lead executive officer
iii
