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"New course of special program for licensing and re-certification of health care providers"

2. New course of special program for licensing and re-certification of health care providers ”Health Consequences of Trafficking; Sexually Transmitted Infections and Reproductive Tract Infections”,

To raise awareness on the phenomenon of human trafficking among the health care professionals thus contributing to better assistance and rehabilitation of the victims of trafficking we created a new course of special program for licensing and re-certification of health care providers”Health Consequences of Trafficking; Sexually Transmitted Infections and Reproductive Tract Infections”, which has been approved by the Ministry of labor, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia. This is a five-day program of 25 credit-hours. After completing the program the doctors received certificates allowing them to work with victims and treat them.

The purpose of special course was to provide accessible information to health care providers in regards to advocacy and treatment of patients. Because effective advocacy and treatment can only occur if the health care providers has a thorough understanding of the complex dynamics of trafficking , information regarding victim safety, power and control tactics and community resources.

The manual covered the following topics:

1.The dynamics of trafficking and its impact on a victim's health.

2.Cultural competency in responding to victims of trafficking
3. Health Consequences of Trafficking
4. Health Rights of Trafficked Women
5. Communication and Rights
6. Principles for Promoting the Health Rights of Trafficked Women
7. Legal issues and community recourses for victims of trafficking as well as legal and reporting issues for health care providers
8. Gynaecology: Classifying Reproductive Tract Infection and Sexual Transmitted Disease ;Visit Steps;Screening for RTIs/STIs and HIV :Presumptive Treatment :Protocol for Comprehensive STI/RTI Diagnosis and Treatment :Symptomatic STI/RTI Treatment :Cervical Infection :Lower Abdominal Pain - Pelvic Inflammatory Disease :Vaginal bleeding; Anemonea, Dysfunctional bleeding, STI, Breast cancer, Cervical cancer, HIV/AIDS.
9. Obstetric: abortion, stillbirth, complication of pregnancy

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