Infectious Diseases Capacity Development Project (IDCAP)
Client: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

IDCAP Mobile Support team conducts on-site support training at Kangulumira Health Center

In partnership with prime contractor Accordia Global Health Foundation, URC’s Center for Human Services is investigating cost-effective ways to build capacity among mid-level practitioners to prevent and treat infectious diseases.

The World Health Organization has endorsed task shifting as an appropriate response to the acute health workforce crisis in sub-Saharan Africa. Training mid-level practitioners to perform tasks conventionally assigned to doctors and enabling non-professional personnel to perform less technical tasks such as counseling and adherence monitoring could play a vital role in helping health workforces in resource-limited settings better address the needs of their patients.   

In Uganda, a national HIV/AIDS Training Needs Assessment performed by the Infectious Diseases Institute revealed that responsibilities usually reserved for a doctor, such as prescribing, are routinely performed by clinical officers and nurses. The study also showed, however, that the majority of those mid-level practitioners report feeling insufficiently trained to carry out such activities.

The objectives of the project include creating an optimal capacity building program for integrated care and prevention of infectious diseases, including providing core infectious disease training and onsite support services. 

• Conduct continuous quality improvement training 
• Provide training and mentoring in continuous quality improvement through monthly coaching/mentoring sessions
• Provide assistance with compliance with standards and outcomes data collection on selected indicators

• Ugandan MOH
• Accordia Global Health Foundation (prime contractor)
• World Health Organization
• Makerere University’s Infectious Diseases Institute
• International Training and Education Center for HIV, University of Washington, Seattle

• Link to Accordia Global Health Foundation for more information on the project.

• Selected facilities representing all regions of Uganda

Please contact Dr. Stephen Kinoti at skinoti@urc-chs.com.

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