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AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is an international not-for-profit NGO, with its Headquarters based in Los Angeles, California. AIDS Healthcare Foundation is registered in Nigeria as Foundation for AIDS Care Prevention and Advocacy in Nigeria but Collectively referred to as AHF-Nigeria. AHF-Nigeria works in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health to provide free HIV/AIDS services; HIV prevention and treatment (ART), capacity building and advocacy in resource-constrained settings.

AHF-Nigeria currently operates in 7 states including; Benue, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nasarawa, Kogi, Cross River, Anambra, Akwa Ibom and supports numerous clinics country wide. The organization now seeks to hire highly competent, dynamic and experienced persons to fill the position below:

Community HTS Assistant

Locations: Nasarawa and Anambra
Reports to: Prevention Coordinator
Slot: 2 Openings

Job Summary

  • To render quality counselling and psychosocial support to clients. Refer clients for appropriate additional psychosocial and clinical support.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

  • Provide HIV Testing Services to all clients willing to conduct HIV test.
  • Participates in the coordination of community outreaches and campaigns.
  • Support the linkage of clients newly diagnosed with HIV to care, support and treatment and HIV negative clients to appropriate HIV prevention services.
  • Keep comprehensive directory of facilities offering ART and other related prevention services.
  • Provide support to decentralized HTS points to provide quality services.
  • Provide support (where needed) in ensuring a coordinated inventory management and ensure supply of RTKs and consumables to HTS sites.
  • Ensure HTS data collection and reporting tools are available and are regularly updated to ensure completeness at all times
  • Counsel and refer patients and family on disease prevention and staying healthy.
  • Support adherence counselling for patients on HIV treatment and document the session out comes in the counselling form.
  • Provide ongoing psychosocial counselling and other form of support to PLHIV.
  • Provide support for activities of PLHIV support groups in the community and contribute to tracking lost to follow up cases.
  • Support the conduct of treatment literacy sessions for patients prior to ART initiation and provide them with the clinical and laboratory goals of ARV’s.
  • Identify clients who are defaulting and furnish team with relevant information for intervention.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements, Education and Experience

  • OND and diploma in related field.
  • Certificate for AIDS Treatment Training
  • Certificate for Counseling Skills Training
  • Degree or diploma in child and youth development would be an advantage.
  • Ability to write reports and communicate effectively.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should submit their Application (CV and Cover Letter as one document) to: [email protected] Kindly indicate the position and the location you are applying for as the subject of your e-mail.

Note

  • Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Also, your application document must be saved in your full name preferably in MS word format.
  • AIDS Healthcare Foundation an Equal Opportunity Employ

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  • Job City Nasarawa ,Anambra
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Anambra Nasarawa
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Aids Healthcare Foundation

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is a Los Angeles-based global nonprofit provider of HIV prevention services, testing, and healthcare for HIV patients. AHF currently claims to provide medical care and services to more than 600,000 individuals in 15 U.S. states and 36 countries worldwide.

In 1987, activists Chris Brownlie, Michael Weinstein, Sharon Raphael, PhD, Mina Meyer, MA, and other advocates were among the earliest champions of the AIDS hospice movement as co-founders of the Los Angeles AIDS Hospice Committee, the catalyst organization which gave rise to the AIDS Hospice Foundation and, ultimately, to today’s AIDS Healthcare Foundation.

As members of the inaugural AIDS Hospice Committee, Brownlie, Weinstein, Myer, Raphael, Paul Coleman and others were involved with the planning and negotiations for the opening of Chris Brownlie Hospice on the grounds of the Barlow Respiratory Hospital. In those early years, following an emotional plea for hospice care to the Los Angeles County Commission on AIDS and a protest and picketing of then-Supervisor Mike Antonovich’s home, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors eventually committed $2 million to AIDS care. The group began converting a facility in Elysian Park that had been Barlow’s old nursing quarters into Chris Brownlie Hospice—the County’s first AIDS hospice—which was named in Brownlie’s honor when it first opened December 26, 1988. Meyer, who also served as Treasurer of the AIDS Hospice Committee, was honored in 1987 by the Los Angeles AIDS Hospice Committee with its ‘Heart of Gold Award’ for her early work in the effort to formulate AIDS hospice care in Los Angeles.

The 25-bed hospice—the first of three operated by AHF, including the Carl Bean House and Linn House, which opened in 1992 and 1995, respectively—provided 24-hour medical and palliative care to people living through the final stages of AIDS. Brownlie died at the age of 39, on November 26, 1989, less than a year after the hospice named in his honor first opened, survived by his father, sister, brothers, his longtime partner, Phil Wilson and countless friends and fellow AIDS activists. In addition to Brownlie, over 1,000 people had been given dignified, specialized, compassionate final care at the Chris Brownlie Hospice by the time it ended hospice operations in September 1996. The building that housed the Brownlie Hospice went through its own rebirths, housing various departments of AHF, including the headquarters for AHF’s Public Health Division, before the organization officially turned the property back over to the City of Los Angeles with a sunset memorial ceremony on Saturday, January 26, 2013.

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0 USD Nasarawa ,Anambra CF 3201 Abc road Full Time , 40 hours per week Aids Healthcare Foundation

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is an international not-for-profit NGO, with its Headquarters based in Los Angeles, California. AIDS Healthcare Foundation is registered in Nigeria as Foundation for AIDS Care Prevention and Advocacy in Nigeria but Collectively referred to as AHF-Nigeria. AHF-Nigeria works in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health to provide free HIV/AIDS services; HIV prevention and treatment (ART), capacity building and advocacy in resource-constrained settings.AHF-Nigeria currently operates in 7 states including; Benue, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nasarawa, Kogi, Cross River, Anambra, Akwa Ibom and supports numerous clinics country wide. The organization now seeks to hire highly competent, dynamic and experienced persons to fill the position below:Community HTS AssistantLocations: Nasarawa and Anambra Reports to: Prevention Coordinator Slot: 2 OpeningsJob Summary

  • To render quality counselling and psychosocial support to clients. Refer clients for appropriate additional psychosocial and clinical support.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

  • Provide HIV Testing Services to all clients willing to conduct HIV test.
  • Participates in the coordination of community outreaches and campaigns.
  • Support the linkage of clients newly diagnosed with HIV to care, support and treatment and HIV negative clients to appropriate HIV prevention services.
  • Keep comprehensive directory of facilities offering ART and other related prevention services.
  • Provide support to decentralized HTS points to provide quality services.
  • Provide support (where needed) in ensuring a coordinated inventory management and ensure supply of RTKs and consumables to HTS sites.
  • Ensure HTS data collection and reporting tools are available and are regularly updated to ensure completeness at all times
  • Counsel and refer patients and family on disease prevention and staying healthy.
  • Support adherence counselling for patients on HIV treatment and document the session out comes in the counselling form.
  • Provide ongoing psychosocial counselling and other form of support to PLHIV.
  • Provide support for activities of PLHIV support groups in the community and contribute to tracking lost to follow up cases.
  • Support the conduct of treatment literacy sessions for patients prior to ART initiation and provide them with the clinical and laboratory goals of ARV’s.
  • Identify clients who are defaulting and furnish team with relevant information for intervention.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements, Education and Experience

  • OND and diploma in related field.
  • Certificate for AIDS Treatment Training
  • Certificate for Counseling Skills Training
  • Degree or diploma in child and youth development would be an advantage.
  • Ability to write reports and communicate effectively.

How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should submit their Application (CV and Cover Letter as one document) to: [email protected] Kindly indicate the position and the location you are applying for as the subject of your e-mail.Note

  • Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Also, your application document must be saved in your full name preferably in MS word format.
  • AIDS Healthcare Foundation an Equal Opportunity Employ
 2019-12-18

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