FRONTESPIZIO - Cooperazione Italiana allo Sviluppo

7. HIV and skin: an operational research (O.R.) in Tigray region, Ethiopia 123Target groupNurses of different category (Senior Clinical nurses, public health nurses,junior clinical and public health nurses and health assistants) currently workingat the health center level will participate in the training.Health centers (the exact number is to be identified considering the numberof the health workers involved) will be randomly selected from weredas inTigray region (also the number of weredas is to be identified considering thenumber of people living in each region). The candidates Health workers willthen be selected from each health center according to the criteria mentionedabove. After the training, the activities performed by the trained healthworkers and the impact on the service after the training will be comparedwith the health workers working in non selected wereda. That means, theuntrained health workers/ non selected health centers will be used as controlgroups. Survey tools (information gathering tools) having the pertinent variablesto the study will be prepared by experts and by the people involved inthe training. The data obtained from the comparison is useful to get factbased information on the impact of the project and for future developmentat wider level.TrainersThe training is given by experts who have vast and long years experience inthe field from Italy, and by local experts working with the TMA or in theRHB.ResearchThe trainers involved in the project will be also responsible for the middletermand final evaluation of the findings, and for the reporting to the RHBand to the Project Management Unit of the Italian Contribution to HSDP(PMU-HSDP). Any concrete result emerging from this research will beshared with the federal Ministry of Health as an input to the national program(HSDP).Topics to be covered Program 11) Principles of the Evidence Base Medicine (EBM)