USAID Trains Iraqi Physician and Nurse Trainers
The Successful Training of Trainers Workshop Improves Ministry of Health Capacity
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 2, 2005
Today, forty Iraqi physicians and nurses representing thirteen governorates completed two ten day USAID Training-of-Trainers of Service Providers programs. Over the last ten days, these Ministry of Health trainers, learned how to teach a comprehensive health curriculum. They will use the curriculum to train physicians and nurses who staff 142 primary health care centers being constructed and equipped with USG funds throughout the country.
USAID's implementing partner, The Research Triangle Institute (RTI) and subcontractor IntraHealth International held a closing ceremony today to mark the completion of the two concurrent ten day workshops. The workshop familiarized Ministry of Health (MOH) trainers with the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) training curriculum as well as training modules on interpersonal communication; referral and follow-up; and infection prevention, and control.
The first round of training of trainers workshops conducted in June provided trainers with practice in using different training methodologies and built their skills in planning, delivering and evaluating training programs. The second round of workshops which ended today helped trainers from this first group to apply their improved training skills in using the actual curricula they will use to train service providers at the governorate level.
USAID's program in Iraq improves access to quality health care and emphasizes maternal and child health services. In this, RTI's training program supports the rollout, in Iraq, of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI), a holistic approach to child health care which is proven to enhance child survival in the 85 countries where it is implemented.
The Integrated Management of Childhood Illness strategy was developed in the mid 1990s by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO). USAID was a major supporter in the development of the IMCI strategy, and continues to implement and expand this method.
The IMCI ensures a unified and systematic approach to addressing childhood illness. The cornerstone of IMCI is a set of algorithms (flow charts) and guidelines for the integrated case management of diarrhea, pneumonia, fever, measles, malaria, malnutrition and the promotion of immunization in health facilities. This ensures that service providers address not only the most obvious problems of a sick child, but monitor and treat a range of common nutritional and infectious disease problems affecting children.
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