Adapting the Package

The Generic Training Package contains technical content about core PMTCT programme components and policies. The content reflects international guidelines and standards. Before it is used for country PMTCT training, this material must be adapted to reflect the national policies, protocols, and guidelines as well as the country-specific context and practice.

This page contains overviews of the adaptation process, adaptation tools , presentations from countries that have adapted the Package, and examples of adapted curricula .

Country Adaptations

• Pacific PMTCT Training Package: Fiji, Vanuatu, Kiribati, and Solomon Islands
• Botswana PMTCT Training Package
• Kenya PMTCT National Training Curriculum
• Guyana PMTCT National Curriculum
• Ethiopia National PMTCT Curriculum
  Please access the Trainer's Guide , Participant Handbook , and Reference Manual on the Ethiopia AIDS Resource Center Web site.

Overview of the Adaptation Process

• Step-by-Step Description of the Process of Country-Specific Generic Training Package Adaptation/Harmonization François-Xavier Bagnoud Center, UMDNJ. June 2006.
• WHO/HHS-CDC PMTCT Generic Training Package: A Comprehensive Approach to Support PMTCT Capacity-Building
  Tin Tin Sint. WHO, June 2005. [PDF, 551K]
• Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV Generic Training Package: Training Programme and Course Director Guide
  WHO, CDC. February 2005 [PDF, 1MB]

Adaptation Tools

• Tools and reports from the PMTCT Training Capacity Building Workshop -- Understanding Instructional Design
  June 19-23, 2006, Nairobi, Kenya. François-Xavier Bagnoud Center University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, February 17, 2006.
• Excerpted tools from the Training Programme and Course Director Guide

Adaptation Experiences

• Lessons Learned in Adapting and Harmonizing the WHO/HHS-CDC PMTCT Generic Training Package
  François-Xavier Bagnoud Center, UMDNJ. June 2006.
• Adapting the WHO/CDC Generic Training Package: The Kenyan Experience
  Marsden Solomon, Robert Ayisi. Africa Regional Adaptation Workshop, Entebbe, Uganda, January 31- February 3, 2005 [PDF, 70K]
• Adapting the WHO/CDC Global PMTCT Training Curriculum: Ethiopia's Experience
  Dr. Afework Kassa, MOH; Dr. Mohammed Ali CDC; Dr. Chandrakant Ruparelia, JHPIEGO
  Africa Regional Adaptation Workshop, Entebbe, Uganda, January 31 - February 3, 2005 [PDF, 89K]
• Adapting the WHO/CDC Generic Training Package (GTP) for PMTCT: The Mozambican Experience
  Dr. Atalia Macome, MOH; Dr. Renata Schumacher, CDC; Dr. Judite Langa, Columbia University
  Africa Regional Adaptation Workshop, Entebbe, Uganda, January 31 - February 3, 2005 [PDF, 252K]