Baltic AIDS Training and Education Center - St. Petersburg

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The mission of the Baltic AIDS Training and Education Center (ATEC) - St. Petersburg is to improve institutional and human resource capacity to support the ongoing scale-up of high quality HIV/AIDS care and treatment services in the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

The Baltic ATEC - St. Petersburg was established in 2008 by the
St. Petersburg City AIDS Center, Pavlov State Medical University, and the Republican Infectious Disease Hospital at Ust-Izhora in cooperation with AIHA and other strategic partners.

Baltic ATEC receives funding and support from USAID, WHO, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH (German Technical Cooperation), the German BACKUP Initiative,
the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and Global Fund national principal recipients, and other international donor organizations.

The Baltic ATEC carries out its mission by:

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  > Developing expertise among health and allied professionals;
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  > Building local training capacity; and
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  > Amassing a body of evidence-based information resources on 
     HIV/AIDS treatment and care.

The St. Petersburg AIDS Center serves as the administrative base of the Baltic ATEC, leading a core group of strategic partners that are all centers of clinical excellence. Strategic partner institutions serve as training sites for specific topical areas.

The Baltic ATEC - St. Petersburg is a key training affiliate of the Regional Knowledge Hub for the Care and Treatment of HIV/AIDS in Eurasia — a WHO capacity-building project managed by AIHA and supported by GTZ’s German BACKUP Initiative. Through its affiliation with the Regional Knowledge Hub, the Baltic ATEC - St. Petersburg and its strategic partners are playing a pivotal role in providing HIV/AIDS training to health and allied professionals in Central Asia and elsewhere in the CIS.

The Baltic ATEC - St. Petersburg currently offers more than 35 courses on the following key topical areas:

• > HIV Medicine
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  > Adult Care and Treatment
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  > Pediatric Care and Treatment
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  > HIV/AIDS Nursing
  
• > HIV/AIDS Palliative Care
  
• > Treatment of Patients Co-infected with HIV, TB, and Hepatitis B
     and/or C
  
  > ART for Injecting Drug Users
  
  > Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT)
  
  > Case Management
  
  > Organization of Care
  
  > HIV/AIDS Laboratory Services
  
  > Faculty Development & Training-of-Trainers
  
  
  

Several courses offered by the Baltic ATEC - St.Petersburg — including a new continuing education course titled “HIV Medicine” that features 20 modules covering all aspects of HIV prevention, treatment, care, and support — qualify as certified continuing education credits for health professionals through the Pavlov State Medical University.

The Baltic ATEC - St. Petersburg’s activities and expanded scope build on the foundation of the St. Petersburg AIDS Education and Training
Center, which was established by AIHA, the St. Petersburg City AIDS Center, and other key HIV/AIDS-related institutions in St. Petersburg in 2006. ATEC St. Petersburg supported the Bratislava Initiatives, a series of Russian-American presidential agreements designed to jointly develop capacity strengthening resources related to the global AIDS crisis.

For additional information about the Baltic ATEC - St. Petersburg and how to access our expert technical assistance and training programs, please visit www.AIDSKnowledgeHub.org or contact:

Prof. Aza G. Rakmanova
rakhmanova@peterlink.ru

Dr. Inna Jurkevich
i.jurkevich@aiha.ru

Dr. Vadim V. Rassokhin
ras-doc@mail.ru

For a PDF overview of the Baltic ATEC - St. Petersburg, please
click here.

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