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Annual NHIVNA Conference 2012 14th Annual Conference of the National HIV Nurses Association (NHIVNA) Iwona Wawer The National AIDS Center, Warsaw, Poland 14-15 June 2012, Manchester Conference Centre THE NATIONAL AIDS CENTRE 2 N A C IWONA WAWER POLAND The National AIDS Centre P O L A N D 1 Annual NHIVNA Conference 2012 THE NATIONAL AIDS CENTRE 3 N A C P O L A N D The National AIDS Centre: was established in 1993 as an agency of the Ministry of Health, employs 30 people, operates on the grounds of the Regulation of the Minister of Health of the 14th of June 2010 in reference to the National AIDS Centre, implements tasks stated in the successive Regulation of the Council of Ministers of the 15th of February 2011, on the issue of the National Program for Preventing HIV Infections and Combating AIDS. THE NATIONAL AIDS CENTRE 4 N A C P O L A N D OBJECTIVES: • To implement prevention and educational activities in the area of HIV and AIDS – NGOs, VCTs. • To elaborate principles and standards of diagnostics and therapy offered to PLWHA – ARV, • To co-ordinate activities of health care facilities providing health services to PLWHA. 2 Annual NHIVNA Conference 2012 EPIDEMIOLOGY 5 E P I D E M I O L O G Y 2011 - 1 210 new HIV cases 30 000 – 35 000 HIV infected (1/4 of them are women) 1985 – 2012: 15 444 HIV cases 2 718 AIDS cases 1 142 people passed away TREATMENT 6 T R E A T M E N T ARV TREATMENT : Since 2001 unified and integrated ARV treatment in all Polish regions has been developed and financed within the framework of the health policy program of the Ministry of Health called “Antiretroviral treatment of people living with HIV in Poland”. 119 children and 5 777 adults are treated in 16 highly specialised centres and penitentiary institutions. 3 Annual NHIVNA Conference 2012 HOSPITAL FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN WARSAW 7 W A R S A W Warsaw's Hospital for Infectious Diseases provides complex health care of infectious diseases including HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis (A, B and C) and tropical diseases. The hospital consists of 7 wards, intensive care ward and daily ward where 6 500 patients are treated every year. HOSPITAL FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN WARSAW 8 W A R S A W 150 nurses employed in the hospital taking care of all patients. Medical personnel is responsible for their own and patients’ security and treats all patients as potentially HIV+. HIV patients are dispersed around the wards, they are by no means isolated from other sick people. The only existing division is between the drug addicts and MSM due to the antagonisms. ARV treatment - breakdown in the work of HIV nurses – provides quality of life for the patients and job security for the personel. 4 Annual NHIVNA Conference 2012 HOSPITAL FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN WARSAW 9 W A R S A W POSITIVES: Excellent hospital equipment. Medical achievements. Strong emotional bonds between them and the patients. NEGATIVES: Limited number of nurses that means little time for trainings, too much work load. The nurses have to accomodate to changing epidemic trends basically on their own. Often, the nurses have to provide psychological support for the new infected and their families. Indifferent or aggressive attiude to nurses from the side of drug addicted patients. TRAININGS 10 T R A I N I N G S In 2011 there were 12 workshops conducted by the National AIDS Centre for nurses, midwives, doctors. 254 people were trained on: epidemiology policy in the area of HIV/AIDS medical aspects voluntary counselling and testings {VCT} sexuology ethics drugs 5 Annual NHIVNA Conference 2012 E-LEARNING 11 E L E A R N I N G The educational portal www.hiv-aids.edu.pl directed to doctors, medicine students, nurses and midwives developed by the National AIDS Centre since 2007. It allows to broaden the knowledge and raise professional qualifications on HIV and AIDS. Professional trainings offered there are free-of-charge, user data is verified upon registration. Students make use of various forms of education: articles, video lectures, examples of interviews with patients, links to additional materials. There exists a possibility to send a question to an expert. E-LEARNING 12 E L E A R N I N G 6 Annual NHIVNA Conference 2012 E-LEARNING 13 E L E A R N I N G THE NATIONAL AIDS CENTRE 14 N A C P O L A N D The National AIDS Centre Samsonowska 1 02-829 Warsaw Poland [email protected] http://www.aids.gov.pl/ 7