ICM and MKI: midwifery training in joint global HIV/AIDS initiative.

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World AIDS Day 2004, on 1 December, was the occasion for the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) and the Medical Knowledge Institute (MKI) launching a joint global AIDS initiative, with work due to start in April 2005.

The initiative's overall goal is to prepare midwifery 'trainers of trainers' to develop and implement strategies for the training of midwives and other health workers. The five year programme, officially called 'Promotion of HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support', will have the aim of training, in all, an estimated 100,000 people in 38 countries worldwide. It has been developed by ICM and MKI with technical support from the World Health Organization (WHO).

A particular emphasis of the programme is the promotion of treatment, care and support for HIV-positive women and their children, as well as prevention of mother-to-child transmission. The Integrated Management of Adolescent and Adult...

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