AIDS Education and Training National Resource Center

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The purpose of the AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETC) National Resource Center (NRC)is to serve AETCs providing education and training resoures to health professionals caring for people living with HIV infection. The NRC activities are to be national in scope and support the work of other National AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETC), Regional AETCs, and Local Performance Sites (LPS). These activities shall include: 1) developing and maintaining national AETCs curricula in key subject areas; 2) developing other training and clinical decision support resources for the AETC program based on needs assessment; 3)creating and maintaining a central respository for HIV/AIDS training and clinical decision support materials and programmatic materials developed by the regional AETCs and others; 4) rapidly disseminating updated information and recent advances in the clinical management of HIV/AIDS to all AETCs, LPS and targeted HIV care providers; 5) developing mechanism to facilitate communication, technical assistance and sharing of tools, best practices, innovative ideas and resources; 6) providing technical assistance to the AETC program in the use of information technology in training that is in compliance with 508 rules; 7) representing the AETC program at national meetings to further develop relationships between the AETC program and national organizations that represent target providers; and 8) developing an AETC national identity and promoting its awareness.

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