Training given on “Understanding HIV/AIDS and Its Impacts from Public Leadership Perspective”
HIV/AIDS Management Unit, HAMU, gave training to students drawn from different institutes of the university in order to enhance knowledge, skills and attitude of the trainees. On top of this, the training gives insights from public leader perspectives on how to prevent the spread and effects of HIV/AIDS epidemic in their workplace, family and community as a whole.
The participants reflected the benefit of such training and suggested HAMU should continue its commendable efforts of enhancing access and quality of mainstreaming HIV/AIDS intervention through various modalities including awareness raising and sensitization workshops, e-learning, curricular integration, research community and outreach services to ECSU community. Head of HAMU, Philipos Petros and Mainstreaming and Social Mobilization Expert, Wubalem Arefaine also enlightened trainees about the aim of the training and the importance of sensing the problem of HIV/AIDS from the context of public administration and peculiarities of workplaces and regions from which the participants are represented.
The training was held on March 14, 2014. In the training one hundred participants were in attendance and fourteen of them were female.
In a related development the Unit undertook Community Conversation with student proctors on March 19, 2014.
The Community Conversation was held for half day with a view to discussing on how to help the students to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS. The CC was believed to enhance and strengthen their awareness on how to work with students to bring AIDS free environment. The participants reflected the benefit of the community conversation and suggested that HAMU should give them continuous training to build their capacity so as to work with the students. Moreover, the participant suggested holding discussion forums with the students so as to strengthen their network especially with anti-AIDS club members. Wubalem Arefaine, HIV/AIDS Mainstreaming and Social Mobilization Expert of HAMU moderated the discussion.