Short Training Courses
(2007)
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1. Youth Education and Movement on HIV/AIDS :
Thailand’s Experience 
Course Orientation
Whilst the pandemic it’s entering its third decade, HIV/AIDS is no longer regarded only as a health problem to be solved through a purely biomedical approach, but as an issue that affects all aspects of a society. The complexities of the HIV/AIDS have evidenced the need to tackle the problem through a multi-disciplinary. Undoubtedly, young people are at persistent risk for HIV infection. However, research from around the world shows an alarming degree of misinformation and lack of knowledge about HIV/AIDS among young people. The majority lack access to effective prevention education, while many cannot access condoms. Furthermore, one global study showed that 44 out of 107 countries failed to include AIDS in their school curricula, As well as, the application of HIV/AIDS education for specific group such as youth been often forgotten in the design of applicable s in understanding the problem. Although young people are especially vulnerable to HIV, they have enormous potential for changing the causes of the epidemic. A dynamic youth movements against AIDS launched a campaign on abstinence and on delaying the initiation of sex, these are considered as continual HIV prevention outreach and education efforts. HIV/AIDS education needs to take place at correspondingly young ages, before young people engage in sexual behaviours that put them at risk for HIV infection. It has shown that a large proportion of young people are not concerned about becoming infected with HIV. Adolescents need accurate, age-appropriate information about HIV infection and AIDS, including how to talk with their partners to reduce risk, and where to get tested for HIV. Obviously, most managers, health workers and policy makers are unaware of the application that HIV/AIDS education for youth is contributing factors in driving the most projects, policies and s designed for HIV/AIDS campaign. Although knowledge in understanding the mechanisms of how youth movement and socio-cultural determinants play in creating barriers and impact on HIV/AIDS has risen, very little efforts have been made to operationalize this knowledge. This course aims at providing participants with an analytical framework and approaches to understand and realize the needs of HIV/AIDS youth education intervention and movement in South East Asian context. In addition this course will focus on providing participants with a multi-sectoral framework to respond to HIV/AIDS effectively.
Course Objectives:
At the end of the training, participants will be able to:
• understand the social science approaches in HIV/AIDS prevention and control for youth
• analyse socio-cultural determinants of HIV/AIDS dissemination among youth
• identify means and challenges in HIV/AIDS prevention and control among youth
• choose and apply educational strategies and appropriate learning programs for youth education on HIV/AIDS; Life Skills Program, Reduction of Social Discrimination & Stigmatization, Theory of Human Behavior and Behavioral Change, Sexuality Education, Counseling, Communication Skills and IE & C
• examine HIV/AIDS treatment and care, prevention approaches and interventions that promote youth’s awareness on HIV/AIDS
• provide practical tools to respond programmatically to HIV/AIDS transmission in youth
Course Content :
• Overview of HIV/AIDS in Thailand and Global Situation: Epidemic and Surveillance System
• Thailand’s National Plan, Policy and Intervention on HIV/AIDS
• Behavioral Change and Modification: Concepts and Strategy to Combat HIV Infection in Youth Group
• Peer Education for Prevention of HIV/AIDS Risk Behavior
• Effective Decision Making and Counseling in Response to HIV/AIDS Control
• Sexuality Education / Implementation of Integrated Sexuality Education Curriculum in Schooling System
• NGO’s Role and PWHA Network to Empower Young People to Combat HIV/AIDS
• Community-Based Youth Education Activities and Local Government Involvement on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control
• I, E, and C Campaign on HIV/AIDS
• Field Study
Learning Methods :
The course is designed to enhance the knowledge and skill of particularly health educators and managers. Most of the time participants will enjoy with participatory learning process. Participants will be able to learn from first-hand experiences demonstrated on different point of views and approaches to cope with HIV/AIDS problem in youth. Role plays, group discussion, games, and field study are included consequently and systematically in this training.
Participants :
The course is suitable for health planners, managers, trainers, NGO workers, researchers, policy makers and officers working in international health and who are already familiar with HIV/AIDS.
Course Duration :
To be informed
Venue :
The course will be conducted mainly at Salaya Pavilion Hotel, Mahidol University International College. Field study will be undertaken both in Bangkok and in the province of northern Thailand such as Chiang Mai Province.
Costs :
This short-course training costs US$ 1,500 which includes tuition fee, training materials, documents, transportation for field study.
Application Deadline :
To be informed
2. Gender and Reproductive Health
Course Orientation
International population policies have shifted their focus from family planning and population targets to the enhancement of reproductive health. Reproductive health encompasses a set of health problems or diseases associated with the physical and social risks of human sexuality and reproduction. The goal of reproductive health care is to enable women, men and adolescents to regulate their own fertility safely and effectively by conceiving when they desire, terminating unwanted pregnancies safely and carrying wanted pregnancies to term; to remain free of diseases, disabilities or death associated with reproduction and sexuality; and to bear and raise healthy children. This course is designed to equip students with the social science approach to understanding reproductive health issues. The course starts with an overview of historical and contemporary developments in reproductive and sexual health. Implications for practice will be discussed during sessions on human rights, gender and sexual health. The emphasis will be placed on women’s health and on how political decisions affect reproductive health.
The aim of the course is not merely to provide a theoretical background in sexual and reproductive health and rights but also to give social insights to students into currently neglected issues. Placing particular emphasis on the socio-cultural aspects of sexual and reproductive health as opposed to biological and bio-medical approaches, participants will gain a deeper understanding of the social structures that shape sexual and reproductive health.
Course Objectives:
At the end of the training, participants will be able to:
• understand the social, cultural and political dimensions of sexual and reproductive health care
• understand the impact of gender relations on health and health seeking behaviour and health services
• understand the genesis of the ICPD and Beijing and specifically to understand the historical development from population control to the current rights-based approach and the significance of this to promoting equity
• explore how gender equity and rights approach can be incorporated into sexual and reproductive health programming
Course Contents :
• The social construction of gender: notions of masculinity and femininity
• Concepts and tools for gender analysis and evidence of gender-based inequalities
• Linking gender and health
• Determinants of health and illness/ Understanding the social determinants of health
• Exploring the links between gender and other determinants of health
• Introduction to international human rights in relation to reproductive health
• Population policies and reproductive rights
• Applying a rights framework to reproductive and sexual health issues
• The connection between gender, sexuality and reproductive health in the context of women’s and men’s life: case studies and examples
• Contraception and abortion, understanding what is behind culture
• Reproductive Tract Infections: women’s perception and action
• Birth control rights and choices for women
• Adolescent sexuality / Copying with infertility / Gender Based Violence
• Incorporating social and gender dimensions in health programme planning
• Promoting individual behavior change and positive health outcomes through programme actions
Learning Methods :
The course includes lectures, small group work, participants’ presentations, role plays and discussions.
Participants:
The course is designed for senior planners and managers in government, non-governmental agencies and NGOs who work in sexual and reproductive health and international development agency officers.
Course Duration:
To be informed
Venue:
Salaya Pavilion Hotel, Mahidol University International College, Thailand
Course fee:
The course costs US$ 1,500 which includes tuition fee, training materials, documents, transportation for field study.
Application deadline:
To be informed
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3. Applied Health Research
Course Orientation :
Socio-cultural and economic factors are some of the key determinants which provide strategies to solve problems related to health systems. Managers of health care s need to be able to use a full range of quantitative and qualitative research approaches and methods in order to implement successful strategies. Whilst quantitative methods have well developed systems of data management and interpretation using statistical methods, qualitative methodologies which relay on anthropological techniques are less understood and therefore dismissed by many health managers. However qualitative methods can provide mechanisms and strategies that could lead to a successful reorientation of health s by understanding the context and the actual needs of the target group.
This course will examine briefly both strengths and weaknesses of qualitative and quantitative approaches providing participants with an understanding of the basic techniques. In depth understanding of applied qualitative research methodologies will be provided to give an insight into the user-prospective of health care. Key health and health care aspects will be analysed such as how to achieve quality of care, use and distribution of pharmaceuticals, coping with chronic illnesses, drug and alcohol abuse, transmission and prevention of HIV/AIDS, adolescent sexuality and, culture and mental health. By the end of the course participants would have developed a research proposal that can contribute to the solution of specific problems.
Course objectives:
At the end of the training, all participants will be able to:
• understand the meaning of health and illness from a soci0-cultural perspectives
• analyse health systems from anthropological points of view in order to understand health and health-related behaviour
• learn and understand social science research approach in health with particular attention to qualitative methodologies.
• Learn to develop a research proposal step by step
Course Content :
I. Theoretical concepts
• Anthropological approach
• Theoretical prospectives in medical anthropology
• Health care system
• Health seeking behaviour, self care and self medication
• Reproductive health and fertility behaviour: A micro approach
• Anthropology of traditional and alternative medicine
• Cultural analysis of HIV/AIDS and implications
II. Methodology
• Philosophical premises in social research
• Problematisation and conceptualization
• Study types and designs in qualitative research
• Ethnographic interview and observation
• Qualitative data collection techniques
• Data processing and analysis
III. Proposal development
Learning Methods :
The course is taught by means of lectures, fieldwork exercise, group work and discussions.
Participants:
The course is designed for research officers of public health institutes, project officer responsible for the implementation of specific health s such as vaccination, water and sanitation, reproductive health etc, coordinators of community health care, public health professionals and social science lecturers at universities.
Course duration:
To be informed
Venue:
Salaya Pavilion Hotel, Mahidol University International College, Thailand
Course fee:
The course costs US$ 1,500 which includes tuition fee, training materials, documents, transportation for field study.
Application deadline:
To be informed
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The Short Training Courses are supported by Ford Foundation and WHO
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