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Mi-Care Training Programme
Mi-Care is an annual training programme that enhances the capacity of migrant community health advocates to fully engage in healthcare planning, practice and policy.
Mi-Care focuses on improving access to quality healthcare services, including the prevention, testing, treatment and care of HIV, viral hepatitis and tuberculosis. This programme ensures that learners are equipped with the knowledge, networks, resources and tools to mobilise and support the diverse migrant communities with which they work across the European region. Upon successful completion of the programme, learners will receive a non-accredited certificate and there is the possibility to be inducted into one of the working groups on the Mi-Health platform to engage with key stakeholders to address barriers to healthcare access and to improve migrant outcomes.
Course Outline
The programme is comprised of 4 modules and English is the language of instruction. The training takes place via Zoom.
Module 1: HIV science for communities: PrEP
16 and 19 April: 15:00-16:30 CET, facilitated by Juddy Otti, Head of HIV Services at Africa Advocacy Foundation and GROWS project Lead at Sophia Forum.
Module 2: Data and research on HIV and migration
25 April: 11:00-12:30 CET, facilitated by Kene Esom, a postgraduate researcher at the School of Law at Warwick University, with a background in human rights and global health. He has worked on HIV and migration policy and programmes as part of his career. He will talk about engaging in effective advocacy on HIV and migration using data and research.
22 May: 15:30-17:00 CET, facilitated by Hanne Zimmermann & Haoyi Wang. Both are from the Maastricht University and will therefore lead a workshop on Civil Society – Academic Research Partnerships.
Module 3: Policy directions and current topics at the national and international levels for HIV, healthcare and health systems
7 May: 10:00-12:00 CET, facilitated by Louise Bonneau & Silvia Carta from PICUM. They will provide a presentation on the pact on migration and asylum and present a top-line overview on the access to healthcare in EU Member States.
Module 4: Advocacy tactics and techniques to advocate at the national and international levels
Week of 13th May: Date and time tbc, facilitated by Dázon Dixon Diallo, Founder and President of SisterLove, Inc, established in 1989, the first women’s HIV, Sexual and Reproductive Justice organization in the southeastern United States.
Who should apply?
Migrants; frontline workers; healthcare activists; professionals working with documented and undocumented migrants, refugees and asylum seekers across the European region; and professionals working on HIV, TB and viral hepatitis. Contact anna@africadvocacy.org with questions.