Blood Borne Viruses

Date/Location: A date and location for this course is currently being planned. If you would like to be added to the waiting list and informed of relevant location and date, please email enquiries@therightroute.co.uk.

These are found in blood or bodily fluids. The main BBVs are Human Immunodeficiency (HIV) and Hepatitis B and C. Routes of transmission are where bodily fluids or blood can be exchanged such as blood to blood or sexual activity. This one day workshop explores individuals and environmental risk factors, the effectiveness of harm reduction responses and the role of drug agencies can do reduce risk. The course looks critically at public health policy responses and considers the availability and effectiveness of screening, treatment options and vaccination programmes.

Who Should Attend

All practitioners in health, social care, probation, police, drugs, alcohol and mental health settings, this workshop will be of interest to both newcomers and those more familiar with blood borne viruses.

Learning Objectives

To maintain low levels of infection by:

• Promoting awareness of the risk of HIV
• Putting in place systems to support practices of behaviour which lessens this risk
• Providing effective safer drug use and safer injecting advice and information
• Providing effective safer sex advice and information to people at risk of acquiring blood borne viruses
• Providing appropriate advice about treatment and care
• Understanding methods of infection control and procedures for dealing with occupational injuries
• Providing access to testing for hepatitis B and C and HIV
• Providing access to hepatitis B vaccination
• Providing a comprehensive pathway of care for those who require healthcare relating to blood-borne diseases
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• Practising delivering appropriate strategies and interventions to people affected by blood borne viruses
• Targeting health promotion programmes at vulnerable groups
• To ensure that people who may be infected are offered rapid diagnostic services and back up counselling; and
• To ensure that arrangements for the care and treatment of people with HIV/AIDS and blood borne viruses reflect the fluctuation in their physical and psychological health

This course is mapped to the relevant DANOS units. To enrol for this course, please fill in and return the TRR Booking Form.