There is a limited capacity among Vietnamese community-based organizations (CBOs) to deliver and monitor quality HIV services, such as outreach, testing and linking positive cases to treatments. Additionally, due to high turnover of community outreach workers, there is a great demand to train them on these services. On July 19 and 20, USAID’s Enhanced Community Link Southern project conducted the first Training of Trainers for about 20 selected potential master trainers from CBOs to design and deliver effective training courses.

So What? As USAID works with Vietnam to achieve HIV epidemic control, developing a CBO workforce to provide effective,data driven, prevention services at the community level is critical.