Scale-up to address HIV/AIDS and other health priorities

Kahwa, Eulalia K.

Sunday, April 22, 2012

C: Adanech Kidanemariam Hall (Millennium Hall)

Eulalia K. Kahwa University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica

June Webber Canadian Nurses Association, Canada

Susan M. Roelofs University of Ottawa, Canada

Scaling up the model for engaging nurses will involve multi-disciplinary stakeholders from different levels of authority and responsibility working across the health system. Both horizontal and vertical linkages will be required. Approaches to leverage dynamic collaboration of stakeholders in other settings and for other priority health issues will be considered.

Learning Objectives: • To examine leadership hubs as a partnership model for change to address clinical and community care gaps in lower- and middle-income countries; • To identify and consider how the leadership hub model might be scaled-up to address HIV and AIDS and other health priorities; and, • To discuss the type of institutional support and capacity-building efforts required for nurses to lead research and evaluation of change models.