Hepi-Tuitah

To address the health-professional training that will be critical to lessening the HIV/AIDS burden – particularly in rural Uganda – MUST and its partner institutions in Uganda (Bishop Stuart, and Lira Universities) and the US (Massachusetts General Hospital) proposed the HEPI-TUITAH (Transforming Ugandan Institutions Training Against HIV/AIDS). This inter-professional HIV/AIDS service-improvement training program for health professionals is building on the MEPI-MESAU consortium and Mbarara University Research Training Initiative (MURTI; D43TW010128, PI: Obua), which focuses on building research capacity in rural southwestern Uganda. Aims To increase the competency of undergraduate medical, nursing, midwifery, and allied health professional students in the management of HIV/AIDS through the "low dose, high frequency" training model for quality clinical education, patient care, and HIV prevention services in Uganda. To enhance the capacity of primary health care providers to provide comprehensive HIV services and strengthen bidirectional linkages between health facilities and communities in rural Uganda. To develop the capacity of undergraduate health professional students in rural Uganda to conduct locally relevant biomedical, behavioral, clinical, and operations research in HIV and its co-morbidities. To strengthen a network of health professional training institutions (HPTIs) by building a community of practice and leveraging local resources and expertise to mitigate the national HIV/AIDS burden.