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Ministry of Health Launches ‘HIV Continued Medical Education for Physicians’
By Ministry Of Finance
Feb 15, 2018 - 1:04:32 PM

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The Ministry of Health, in keeping with its mandate to ensure that the highest quality of services for health promotion, health protection and health care are accessible to all residents of The Bahamas, announces launch of The National HIV/AIDS Programme’s  “HIV Continued Medical Education for Physicians.” 

Ministry of Health Surveillance reports indicate that there are 8,667 people living with HIV in The Bahamas; as such the Ministry encourages physicians to continue their education and training in this area.  One of the objectives of the training, as explained by the National HIV/AIDS Programme Director, Dr. Nikkiah Forbes is to reinforce the Ministry’s “Treat All” Policy, which warrants that all persons with HIV have available to them the opportunity to consult with their primary care physician in a private clinical setting in their community.

It is envisioned that this approach will also act as an impetus for persons who are presently not on anti-retroviral medication to seek care and receive lifesaving medication. 

It will also act as a vehicle to allow for more primary and family care physicians in both public and private health facilities to be able to comfortably provide a full spectrum of primary care services to patients living with HIV, including regular viral load testing, counselling, initiation and monitoring of anti-retroviral therapy.

More importantly, it will also target and prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV for expectant mothers. 

The official launch of HIV Continued Medical Education for Physicians took place on Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at the U.W.I (Bahamas Campus), as the first of 12 training modules.


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