Deb Winters has been providing HIV clinical care since 1986. She is the Senior Nurse Advisor for I-TECH providing teaching, clinical mentoring and curriculum development that began in Ethiopia in 2003. Deb provided an overview of I-TECH’s Nursing and Midwifery Portfolio which started in 2002 and includes in-service training support, pre-service capacity building, leadership and management and regulatory strengthening and policy development in 18 I-TECH supported countries.
Deb presented information on her most recent work in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Malawi. In Zimbabwe she has been developing case-based curriculum for I-TECHs eLearning training program focused on PMTCT, HIV Testing and Counseling for Children and Adolescents and Viral Load Monitoring. The training approach includes blended learning, tablet-based self-study materials and distance learning. In South Africa, the e-Learning curriculum contains interactive and practical learning exercises on how to effectively use health information and data centered around TB, HIV and diarrheal cases. In Malawi, Deb and the I-TECH team developed a comprehensive HIV, TB and STI pre-service curriculum and she is currently providing faculty TOTs using the revised curriculum.