Final ARC East Summative Congress


The final ARC East Summative Congress was held 6-8 July 2017 in Lusaka, Zambia. Fifteen country representatives from east, central and southern Africa attended to showcase the conclusion of their projects and celebrate the six years of achievements for ARC. Click here for a copy of the presentations.


ARC 2nd Learning Session

The second learning session for ARC East, Central and Southern Africa was held in Kigali, Rwanda 21-23 March 2017. The eleven countries who received ARC grants attended: Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Click here for a copy of the presentations.

ARC meets in Abidjan
The ARC West and Central Africa Summative Congress was held in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire 25-26 July 2016. Nursing and midwifery leaders from Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Cote D'Ivoire presented the outcomes of their year long projects to improve HIV care and treatment particularly for pregnant women and children. Click here for a copy of the presentations.

ARC Writer's Workshop

Representatives from ARC countries met in Dar es Salaam Tanzania in August 2016 for a Writer's Workshop to prepare articles for publication about the successful implementation of their ARC projects. A follow up Writer's Workshop was held in Kigali Rwanda in March 2017.

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http://www.chpa.co/Images/Acrobat-File.jpg Final Report ARC Writers Workshop Dar es Salaam August 2016
http://www.chpa.co/Images/Acrobat-File.jpg Ken Hebpburn ARC Writers Workshop Slides

About ARC

The African Health Professions Regional Collaborative for Nurses and Midwives (ARC) works across 18 countries in sub-Saharan Africa to facilitate nurse and midwife led HIV care for pregnant women and children; improve the quality of nursing practice; and enhance national nursing policy and regulation. ARC is funded by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and implemented by Emory University School of Nursing in partnership with the Commonwealth Nurses and Midwives Federation and the East, Central and Southern Africa Health Community. 


ARC convenes regional meetings with nursing leaders; awards grants to improve services at sites with a high HIV volume; and provides targeted technical assistance. Each year ARC awards grants to country teams of nursing and midwifery leaders to work on an identified national priority that will enhance nurse and midwife roles in the delivery of quality clinical HIV care. ARC aims to stimulate innovative projects that can be scaled and sustained nationally over time.

Contacts

ARC Principal Investigator
Dr Kenneth Hepburn
khepbur@emory.edu


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Final ARC West Summative Congress
The final ARC West Summative Congress was held 11-12 July 2017 in Yaounde Cameroon. The three countries which are part of ARC West, Cameroon, Cote d'IVoire and the Democratic Republic of the Congo attended the Summtive. Click here for a copy of the presentations.

LARC 3rd Learning Session

The third LARC learning session was held in Piggs Peak, Swaziland 16-18 May 2017. The six LARC countries: Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Tanzania and Uganda attended. Click here for a copy of the presentations.


LARC 2nd Learning Session Entebbe Uganda

The LARC second learning session was held 2-4 November 2016 in Entebbe Uganda. Countries shared the progress of their projects to improve HIV prevention, care and treatment. Click here for a copy of the presentations.

LARC 1st learning session Dar es Salaam
The first learning session of the LARC initiative was held in Dar es Salaam Tanzania 2-4 August 2016. Laboratory and nursing and midwifery personnel from the six LARC countries: Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Tanzania and Uganda met together to share progress in their projects. Click here for copies of presentations and reports.

About LARC

LARC is an extension of the African Regional Collaborative for Nurses and Midwives. The new initiative, titled LARC, is aimed at improving communication between laboratory technologists and technicians and nurses and midwives.
 
The UNAIDS 90-90-90 goals aim by 2020: 90% of all people living with HIV will know their HIV status; 90% of all people with diagnosed HIV infection will receive sustained ART; and 90% of all people receiving ART will have viral suppression. Integral to these goals is identification and referral for viral load testing; efficient specimen collection and processing; timely and accurate testing; and result reporting and interpretation by clinicians that leads to appropriate patient management.

Improving communication between laboratory personnel and clinicians along the continuum is essential to achieving the 90-90-90 goals. The LARC initiative will provide time limited grants to six countries (Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Tanzania, and Uganda) to work on projects to improve communication and understanding between these two critical groups of health professionals.

ARC CPD Toolkit