List of Distance Courses Offered at Amref University: 2023/2024

The Accredited list of distance learning courses offered at the Amref International University, AMIU and their Requirements for 2023/2024 has been released and published here.  All interested aspirants or candidates who want to apply for admission in the school can now proceed and check below for the list of distance learning courses offered in Amref International University, AMIU and their Requirements. The general public and all those interested in studying at the Amref International University, AMIU are hereby informed that the list of distance learning courses offered at the institution has been listed in the article and can be found below.

If you are looking for Amref International University, AMIU then you are finally in the right place especially if you have been searching so hard for it. Today, one of our article which you are currently reading now contains the official list of all the distance learning courses offered at the Amref International University, also known as AMIU.

LIST OF DISTANCE LEARNING COURSES OFFERED AT AMREF INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY, AMIU

Below is the full detail of all the distance learning courses offered at the Amref International University, AMIU:

1. Child Health

Course Duration: 2-3 months | Tuition: KES 25,000

The course aims to provide health workers with the competencies they need to provide promotive, preventive and curative health services to children.

Course Modules

• Integrated Management of Childhood Illness
• Clinical Problem Solving
• Common Problems of the New –Born
• Growth and Development
• Health Education, Promotion & Counselling
• Nutrition
• Anaemia
• Immunization
• Malaria
• Diarrhoea
• Acute Respiratory Infections
• Eye, Nose and Throat (ENT)
• HIV/AIDS
• Helminthiasis
• Oral, Eye and Skin Conditions
• Mental Health
• Common Injuries and Accidents
• Disability and Rehabilitation Part I
• Disability and Rehabilitation Part II
• Other Conditions: Urinary tract infection, Meningitis, Diabetes, Typhoid e.tc

 2. Community Health

Course Duration: 2-3 months | Tuition: KES 20,500

The course is designed to enable learners to acquire knowledge and skills pertaining to community health and apply it to address community health issues and needs. It is aimed at developing competencies in health promotion, prevention and rehabilitation of individuals, families and the community, using the available resources.

Course Modules

• Introduction to community health
• Demography and Epidemiology
• Primary Health Care
• Organization & administration of health services
• Sociology and Anthropology
• Behaviour change and communication
• Environmental health
• Communicable diseases
• Community diagnosis and assessment
• Special Health Issues
• Home-Based Care
• Management,
• Nutrition
• Immunization
• Maternal Child and Family Planning Mental Health

3. Communicable Diseases

Course Duration: 2-3 months | Tuition: KES 20,500

This course deals with the diagnosis, management, prevention and control of common communicable on tropical diseases.

Course Modules

• Epidemiology
• Infection prevention and control
• Travel Medicine
• Immunization
• Contact Diseases
• STDs
• HIV/AIDS
• Vector-Borne Diseases
• Malaria
• Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases
• Diseases of Faeco-oral Contamination
• Helminthiasis
• Acute Respiratory Infections
• Meningitis
• Tuberculosis and Leprosy
• Diseases of Contact with Animals

4. Integrated HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care and Management

Course Duration: 1 month | Tuition: KES 15,500

The objective of this course is to develop your knowledge, skills and attitudes with respect to the provision of comprehensive care to people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and their families.

Course Modules

• Fundamentals of HIV and AIDS
• Prevention of HIV infection and Post Exposure
• HIV Counselling and Testing
• Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV
• HIV Treatment and Monitoring
• Management of patients with HIV related diseases
• Nutrition in the Context of HIV and AIDS
• Management of HIV in Special Populations
• Community & Home-Based Care and Other Support
• Behaviour Change Communication (BCC)
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• HIV Commodity Security

5. Non-Communicable Diseases (Revised)

Course Duration: 2-3 months| Tuition: KES 20,500

The course has 17-modules covering non-communicable diseases in adults.

Course Modules

• Diseases of the Cardiovascular System Part I
• Diseases of the Cardiovascular System Part II
• Diseases of the Respiratory System Part I
• Diseases of the Respiratory System Part II
• Diseases of the Urinary System
• Diseases of the Alimentary System Part I
• Diseases of the Alimentary System Part II
• Diseases of the Joints & Connective tissues
• Diseases of the Nervous System Part I
• Diseases of the Nervous System Part II
• Diseases of the Blood & Reticuloendothelial System
• Diseases of the Endocrine Glands
• Diseases of Nutrition
• Poisoning;
• Common Skin Diseases in the Tropics
• Miscellaneous diseases
• Cancer and its Management

 6. Malaria

Course Duration: 2-3 months | Tuition: KES 15,500

This is a 12 module course which addresses the management, prevention and control of malaria.

Course modules

• Malaria
• Clinical Assessment of Malaria
• Severe and complicated Malaria
• Treatment of Malaria
• Treatment defaults in Malaria
• Referral in Severe and Complicated Malaria
• Malaria in Pregnancy
• Prevention and Control of Malaria
• Community-Based Management of fever and Malaria in children
• HIV/AIDS and Malaria
• Counselling and Health Education on Malaria
• Malaria Surveillance

7. Nutrition

Course Duration: 2-3 months | Tuition: KES 14,250

This course aims to provide health workers with knowledge and skills on how to promote good nutrition especially breastfeeding in the community; manage and prevent malnutrition in the community.

Course Modules

1. Food Nutrients
2. Maternal nutrition during pregnancy and lactation
3. The relationship between nutrition, infection and disease
4. Protein-Energy-Malnutrition
5. Breastfeeding Part I
6. Breastfeeding Part II
7. Complimentary feeding
8. Growth Monitoring Promotion
9. Nutrition counselling
10. Nutrition
11. HIV

8. Medicine Management (New)

Course Duration: 2-3 months | Tuition: KES 10,500

The main objectives of the course are to prepare health managers who have competencies in medicines management in health facilities at different levels.

Course Modules

1. Policies and Medicine Control
2. Selection of Medicines
3. Procurement and Medicine Quality Assurance
4. Distribution of Medicines
5. Rational Use of Medicine
6. Organization and Management of Drug Supply
7. Drugs and Substance Abuse

9. Drug and Substance Abuse (New)

Course Duration: 2-3 months | Tuition: KES 10,500

This course is designed for health workers who are involved in curative and rehabilitative services at all levels of health care. These include, but not limited to, medical officers, clinical officers, pharmacists and phar-maceutical technologists, occupational therapists and nurses.  In addition, health managers concerned with policy formulation and regulation are encouraged to participate.

Course Modules

• Exposure Situation in Drug and Substance Abuse
• Drug and Substance Abuse in Special Populations
• Categories of Drugs and Substances of Abuse
• Interventions for Mitigation /Eradication of the Use of Drugs
• Policy Guidelines and Regulations Relating to Drug and Substance Abuse

10. Maternal & Neonatal Health (New)

Course Duration: 2-3 months | Tuition: KES 10,500

Course Modules

• The Normal neonate
• Neonatal Resuscitation
• Birth Injuries
• Management of High-Risk Neonate
• Congenital Abnormalities

11. Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Course Duration: 2-3 months | Tuition: KES 13,000

This is a 10 module course which looks at the female Reproductive system and specifically discusses issues related to pregnancy and delivery and associated medical problems.

Course Modules

• Anatomy and physiology of the female reproductive system
• Introduction to Obstetrics
• Bleeding in Pregnancy
• Medical conditions in pregnancy
• Normal Labour and puerperium
• Abnormal pregnancy and presentation
• Abnormal Labour
• Operative Obstetrics and the abnormal puerperium
• Diseases of the Female Genital track
• Family Planning Methods

US$ 450, per course for health workers outside Kenya

The requirement for enrolment: One must be a Health Worker or Training as a Health worker

12. Monitoring and Evaluation

Course Duration:  3-6 months

Tuition: KES 70,000 or USD 700

This course equips participants with competencies in monitoring and evaluation of development interventions at project, programme and organisational level.

Course Modules

• Module I: Concepts and Principles of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation
• Module 2: Monitoring Processes and Method
• Module 3: Evaluation Processes
• Module 4: Data Analysis and Report Writing
• Module 5: Monitoring and Evaluation system
• Module: Project Assignment

HOW TO APPLY FOR THE AMIU DISTANCE LEARNING COURSES

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