Graduate Prerequisites: For MPH students who have completed > 16 credits or all four MPH core courses. Successful HIV/AIDS treatment programs rely on consistent, uninterrupted supplies of antiretrovirals (ARVs), appropriate ARV prescribing, retention of patients in treatment programs, and a high level of adherence by patients. Ineffective ARV management leads to treatment failures, ARV resistance, illness, and death. This course is activity-based, and will engage students in the nuts and bolts of each stage of HIV treatment provision, with in-depth exercises applied to one country. Students will gain practical knowledge and skills to understand and manage testing and treatment initiation, retention in care, treatment adherence, and challenges related to ARV cost and scale-up. Guest lecturers with relevant expertise will be invited to speak on specific topics. If possible, one session will be devoted to a field visit to an adherence clinic to learn directly about the ARV program management issues faced by practitioners and patients.

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