The Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment will be officially relaunching the HIV Case Base Surveillance next week.
As part of a core facet in strengthening Health Information Systems in the Organization of eastern Caribbean States (OECS) region, the HIV/TB Elimination project will be rolling out the HIV/TB/STI Clinical Management Software for Case Base Surveillance; the initiative also aims to standardize its reporting in the region.
A fundamental step in the process is to relaunch Case Base Surveillance, which is being piloted in St.Vincent and the Grenadines.
The launch will take the form of a workshop scheduled for Monday, January 29, 2018, at the Beachcombers Hotel conference room beginning at 9am.
The workshop seeks to reintroduce and build upon the progress of Case Base Surveillance in the region and chart the way forward as well as identify mechanisms of sustainability for individual countries and the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS).
At this workshop stakeholders will be sensitized on the theory and practices of the newly developed HIV Clinical Management module (HIVMS V2), which has the capacity for integrating HIV/STI/TB surveillance in the region.
