My title is Caricia Catalani. I am a trainer, advocate, and researcher and I presently working in international health, looking for ways to use improvements in technology to handle the HIV pandemic. I work for a company known as InSTEDD (Innovative Support and Technology for Emergencies, Disaster, and Disease) and for the University of California, Berkeley as a researcher and technology implementer. Currently, my projects are based in India, Cambodia, Kenya, Rwanda, and the USA.

Background: With simply over 3,000 registered nurses (some sources recommend 7,000) in a rustic of greater than 12 million people in 2003, Malawi doesn’t have anyplace near sufficient nurses to satisfy its well being care wants. Indeed, when Peter Piot of the UNAIDS and Suma Chakrabarti of the U.K’s Department for International Development (DFID) visited Malawi in 2004, they rapidly decided that rolling out a large-scale anti-retroviral HIV treatment program would instantly drain the prevailing …