PMTCT (Preventing Mother To Child Transmission)
The Caregivers my office manages are in a week long workshop learning about how to educate pregnant mothers with HIV on how to prevent them from spreading it to their child during birth and breast feeding. This is one of the many what I call next generation steps that Swaziland is taking to stop the spread.
I call it next generation, which goes along with Male circumcision and MCP's (Multiple Concurrent Partners) efforts, cause education and free condoms have been done for 10 years and it is time to move on to something bigger to help stop the spread.
It is a really great program they are running and our office supports the government which is running it.
In Mbabane the pre-school teachers are getting some training also. (Not AIDS related)
So the normal stuff we do in the office is all mixed up. We are all sitting in the workshop. Of course it is in siSwati, and I can only get 1 out of 10 words but there is enough English mixed in to follow. But I am so bored I just play games on my phone. And do the office support stuff for the trainers and Caregivers.
It is really great stuff they are teaching, but it isn't for me.
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