Opening of European Academy for HIV/AIDS and Infectious Diseases, at Bucuresti
29th of June, 2009
June 27th, 2009 will represent a prominent moment for the Romanian medicine: launching the European HIV/AIDS and Infectious Diseases Academy, within the National Institute for Infectious Diseases "Prof. Dr. Matei Bals", Bucharest.
Dr. Ion Bazac, the Minister of Health, Prof. dr. Ecaterina Andronescu, Minister of Education and Innovation, Mr. Sorensen, Regional Director of Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and Prof. dr. Adrian Streinu-Cercel, Scientific Director of IBI Matei Bals symbolically cut the launch ribbon.
European HIV/AIDS and Infectious Diseases Academy will stand from now on a scientific forum of professional post-graduation training, both for Romanian specialists and for the ones from the region or other countries seriously affected by HIV/AIDS.
Based on the prestigious experience of IBI Matei Bals and on special results obtained by Romanian specialists in HIV/AIDS prevention and transmission spread, the Academy will represent a resource centre both for training specialists in the field and for specialty scientific research.
The material base available for the trainees is impressive: training halls, laboratories for practice applications and also laboratories for tests benefiting of the newest procurements in terms of machines and performance technique. In the same time, the whole endowment of the Academy is based on the 'high-tech' concept, providing to the trainees the opportunity to get familiar and gain work experience with an outstanding quality level.
The training curricula proposed by the Academy contains a serial of programs:
- Residential and long distance professional training for infectious disease specialist physicians, nurses, general physicians, the staff who work in microbiology and virology laboratories, social assistants and other professional categories;
- Continuous professional training, both residential and online in the areas that are of present interest: HIV/AIDS cases' management, pediatric treatment for HIV children, clinical and laboratory monitoring for HIV people, ARV treatment's strategy, HIV post-exposure prophylaxis, vertical transmission prevention, the management of the co-infection cases HIV/TB and HIV/HVC/HVB, HIV cases management among the injecting drug users, management of the universal precautions in medical practice, etc;
The training sessions will be sustained in Romanian and English, the training process being certified by the Romanian Physicians College, UMF "Carol Davila" Bucharest and by the Ministry of Health. For the trainees who need accommodation, the Academy provides them a number of modern arranged studios and apartment.
More information on the newly launched European Academy for HIV/AIDS and Infectious Diseases can be obtained at www.aidsacademy.org.
