Themba Lethu Clinic is Right to Care’s flagship on-the-job HIV management training site. Training is provided mainly for clinicians (doctors and nurses), but also for paramedical and support staff, for example, data capturers, pharmacists and pharmacy assistants, and counsellors.

Training takes the form of:

• Clinical management of HIV infected and affected patients by clinicians for up to six months at a time
• Training in the use of Right to Care’s disease-management support tool (Therapy Edge), for clinicians, data capturers. This is for up to six months at a time.
• In-house regular theoretical HIV management training for clinical teams and for support staff
• Journal club sessions for updates of new research information locally and globally as part of Continuing Medical Education (CME) activities
• Weekly case study presentations by experienced clinicians
• Presentation of selected topics by all clinicians as part of presentation skills training
• Major ward rounds weekly, for all hospital admitted complicated patient cases, led by specialists from the Clinical HIV Research Unit
• Formal practical training of Primary Health Care nurses (PHCN) on HIV management of patients for seconding to down-referral sites and other CCMT sites as requested by our partners
• Monthly tutorials on the basics of HIV, TB, opportunistic infections, and VCT for final year Wits University medical students (GMP groups)
• Bimonthly presentations on relevant HIV topics to the casualty doctors