As for my work to give you a straight-forward answer besides my title District HIV/AIDS Technical Advisor I’m not quite sure what that is going to look like day-to-day.
I will be working in the District office with the District
Commissioner, District Planning Officer, and the District AIDS
Commissioner. So depending on these key
players it will determine what I will be doing. The idea is that in order to
get HIV/AIDS programs support to villages in the district we need to have
current and accurate data to know what is being done and if the work is
successful. The data collection in the villages is being done by Community
Based Organizations (CBOs) and in many cases these people may not have been
trained to collect data or know why data even needs to be collected and on top
of that might not even literate in Chichewa. SOOO, my job with my co-workers is
to visit these CBOs see what data is being collected and if so, is it getting
to the DC office? With current and accurate data collection we can them apply
for a VAST grant to better support these successful CBOs. PHEW! There are a lot
of variables in this but I’m excited for an ultimate public health challenge.
Who will be visiting first??
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