The Global Health eLearning Center is pleased to offer this course on HIV Basics. Since the early 1980s, global HIV prevalence has increased to almost 40 million people – roughly 1% of adults of reproductive age. Understanding and knowledge about HIV is critical to preventing transmission of the virus. Learners who take this course will be oriented to key concepts in the biology, epidemiology, and prevention of HIV.
Photo Credit: Adapted by Mark Beisser/CCP from Access Excellence @ the National Health Museum. http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/VL/GG.diagram.html. Copyright 1999. All rights reserved. Illustration of the structure of a retrovirus

This course covers the following topics:

  • Biology of the HIV virus
  • Epidemiology of the virus and modes of infection
  • Prevention fundamentals for sexual transmission
  • Additional approaches to prevention
What others are saying about this eLearning course:
"I wanted to congratulate you on the e-learning course that Global Health has online. We just received this and a few of us have taken the course and gotten the nifty certificates. What a wonderful idea! I am going to have my entire team (over 112 people) take this. Many of our staff are not clinical and work in support roles in admin, finance, and programs, and are not familiar with the basics of HIV. It [the HIV Basics e-learning course] has great information and is a wonderful review of HIV '101.'"

Knowledge for Health Project, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs (CCP), Family Health International(FHI), Management Sciences for Health (MSH), With IT Support from Google.

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