FRONTESPIZIO - Cooperazione Italiana allo Sviluppo

134 Margherita Terranova, Valeska Padovese, Aldo Morronebeen provided by TRHB. The office has been equipped according to theneeds of the research and the planned costs established on the project budgetreported on the Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) for the project(see issue 4.3).A logistic officer was employed for the activities of the research in Mekele. Heworked in the local office provided by TRHB with the function of logisticcoordinator and accountant.The Project Coordinator (provided by IISMAS) and TMA had periodicalmeetings with TMA to establish the research methodology (see in Annex 1).Six woredas were included in this operational research, three interventionsand other three in the control group. The interventional and control weredaswere purposefully selected and matched for the following criteria:• Climate and altitude• Population size• Number of health institution, health personnel and their mix• UrbanityIn addition, the intervention and control weredas were set apart to avoid contamination.Thus the intervention weredas, Abi Adi, Hagere Selam andHauzien are from the central and the eastern zones while the control weredas,Hintalo Wajarat, Alamata and Samre Saharti, are all from the southern zone(see the map in Annex 2).After the project activity sites, we selected four Medical Doctors of TMA tobe involved in the research’s activities. In order to develop the right methodologyand models for integrated human sustainable healthcare and to explainthe project activities, the training on “Dermatology and Sexually TransmittedDiseases and their correlation with systemic diseases” has been addressed tothe TMA’s Medical Doctors selected for the research’s activities . A shortcourse training has been held in Mekele on 4th–7th April 2006 by the ProjectCoordinator-specialist in Dermatology and Venereology, and by anEpidemiology expert of the TMA. The trainees were the four MedicalDoctors involved in the OR. The objective of the course was the improvementof the MDs’ knowledge and skill concerning skin diseases and STIs relatedto systemic conditions (particularly HIV/AIDS). Different methods ofteaching, such as the short lecture, demonstration, case presentation in theIDC, group discussion were utilized. Didactic materials as a CD-Rom and aprint version of a Dermatology Atlas has been given to the participants.To analyze the skills on current health care practice of the health workers inthe selected weredas and identify their training needs were prepared an assess-