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• Support health facilities to provide
  quality services for prevention and elimination of Mother to Child
  Transmission services in the districts
• Support training of health care workers in
  HIV counseling and testing, provision of ARVs for prophylaxis to the HIV
  pregnant mothers, mothers in labor and delivery and lactating mothers,
  provision of ARVs for prophylaxis to the exposed babies and early infant
  testing (EID services).
• Ensure health facilities have adequate
  supplies of HIV testing kits, Laboratory supplies for testing pregnant
  women, lactating mothers and women in labor and their exposed babies.
• Supply eMTCT EID data tools for collection
  of data (ANC, labor and delivery register, PNC register, exposed infants
  care cards, exposed infants register, family planning registers, HIV
  client care cards, Dry blood spots dispatch forms, triplicate referral
  forms and monthly reporting forms)
• Actively participate in coaching and
  mentoring of health providers in the facilities to offer quality HCT.
• Support the district eMTCT team to monitor
  and evaluate the PMTCT-EID activities, as per the national monitoring and
  reporting guidelines.

• The ideal candidate for the Makerere
  University Joint AIDS Program (MJAP) Elimination of Mother to Child
  Transmission of HIV (eMTCT) Officer should preferably hold a Bachelor’s degree in Nursing or
  Community Health or Public Health with a Master’s degree in a related
  discipline.
• A
  minimum of three years’ of related working experience in supporting eMTCT
  EID activities.
• Good report writing and networking skills.
• Strong
  analytical and team building skills.
• Previous
  experience in health worker capacity building through trainings and
  mentorships is a must.
• Dynamic
  thinking and innovativeness
• Ability
  to work in a rural setting

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