SAMUEL KALIBA
Summary
Medical Officer with 20 years of work experience as a doctor and over 15 years of which specifically managing, implementing and mentoring in HIV/AIDS and TB programs in health facilities and communities, including healthcare services delivery for Key Populations. Profound knowledge of HIV/AIDS epidemiology, prevention strategies. Proven ability to build and maintain strong partnerships with community organizations, healthcare providers, and government agencies. Demonstrated success in designing, coordinating, and evaluating HIV prevention care and treatment programs to meet the 95-95-95 UNAIDS targets effectively and efficiently.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Regional Clinical Mentor, Trainer and Quality Improvement
CDC/Ministry of Health and Social Services
12.2016 - Current
- Regional Clinical Mentor for Medical Officers, Nurses, Monitoring & Evaluation Officers, Health Assistants and Data Clerks in the field of HIV/AIDS Patient Management in Kavango East region and now temporarily covering Kavango West region to meet the 95-95-95 national and UNAIDS treatment targets.
- Ongoing mentoring of over 250 healthcare workers in more than 33 health facilities including Hospitals, Health Centres, Clinics, and Correctional Facilities, in HIV prevention, care and treatment, some of which provide services to Key Population clients.
- Responsible for conducting trainings and capacity building activities for healthcare workers on treatment and management of HIV/AIDS, PMTCT, Tuberculosis, and other Opportunistic Infections.
- Implementation of HIV Testing Services such as Optimized PITC, Index Contact Testing, Recency Testing and HIV Self-testing both in health facility and community level in compliance with current national HIV testing guidelines and standards in order to meet the first 95 of the 95-95-95 targets.
- Ensuring that all clients who tested HIV positive are tracked and linked to care at their nearest or preferred health facility, including Key Population clients.
- Provide technical guidance on management of high viral load clients including Key Populations.
- Evaluating ART clients for possible treatment regimen failure and switching them to effective second line or third line regimens, including Key Populations.
- Identifying clients with suspected ART drug resistance and authorizing for drug resistance (genotype) tests.
- Interpretation of resistance tests results and recommending individualized regimens accordingly.
- Regional HIV program monitoring and evaluation through quarterly data reviews so as to track progress against the 95-95-95 regional targets.
- National HIV program monitoring and evaluation through annual data reviews to track progress against the 95-95-95 UNAIDS targets.
- Tracking of treatment interrupters and clients that missed their scheduled appointments and ensuring that they are promptly linked back to care, including Key Populations.
- Provide technical assistance on how to identify adherence barriers for clients with high viral load and tailor-make interventions for a sustained viral load suppression.
- Regional Team Lead for the Tri-pillars collaborative on HIV prevention, care and treatment. This includes Clinical mentors, District Quality Managers and Monitoring & Evaluation Officers.
- Technical adviser to the Regional Management Team on all HIV/AIDS related issues, including those for Key Populations.
- Member of the National Strategic Framework for HIV/AIDS that conducted the End Term program implementation review in 2022.
- Member of the Technical Working Group that regularly reviews and updates the National guidelines for Anti-retroviral therapy and training curriculums.
- Conduct radio talks for Public Health awareness campaigns on HIV/AIDS, TB and other contemporary public health topics.
- Regional Quality Improvement Coach for healthcare workers in quality improvement methods in Kavango East and West regions.
Private Practitioner Medical Officer
Okongo Medical Centre
03.2011 - 10.2016
- Private Medical Practitioner at Okongo Medical Centre in Ohangwena region.
- Responsible for all administration, management, planning and day to day running of the Medical Centre activities.
- Responsible for all patient care health services delivery, including HIV prevention, care and treatment for Key Population clients.
- Ordered medical and laboratory supplies and equipment including ensuring their maintenance.
- Ordered all pharmacy supplies and kept check on inventory levels.
- Captured patient history, current medical conditions and medications into the electronic medical records system.
- Discussed medical histories with patients in effort to provide most effective medical advice.
- Interpreted diagnostic test results for deviations from normal.
- Completed patient referrals to other medical specialists.
- Applied continuous process improvement strategies to enhance case management and good treatment outcomes.
- Improved patient outcomes and delivery of care through improved clinical quality processes.
- Communicated with patients, ensuring that medical information was kept private.
- Conducted routine facility inspections, identifying areas needing improvement and eliminating hazards posed to staff and residents for continued compliance with associated regulations.
Medical Officer
CDC/Ministry of Health and Social Services
05.2007 - 02.2011
- Day to day provision of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment services to clients, including Key Populations at Katima Mulilo State Hospital and the surrounding communities.
- Improved patient treatment outcomes and delivery of HIV/TB services through implementation of continuous quality improvement initiatives.
- Introduced and implemented Provider Initiated Testing and Counseling, in order to reduce the the then high morbidity and mortality rates of HIV/AIDS resulting from client-based Voluntary HIV Testing.
- Linkage to care of HIV positive clients that met the ART treatment criteria according to the national guidelines.
- Practical management of high viral load clients including Key Populations to ensure full viral suppression.
- Evaluation of clients for ART treatment failure and switching them to effective second line or third line regimens.
- Regional HIV data review and analysis for HIV program evaluation and benchmarking against program set targets.
- Tracking treatment defaulters and interrupters, including Key Populations who are lost to follow up and linking them back to care.
- Development and implementation of tailor-made adherence interventions for clients with suspected poor adherence to treatment and sustained viral load suppression.
- Participated in the planning and establishment of the only Wellness Clinic that is rendering HIV services to the Key Population clients in the community.
- Pioneered the concept of training and mentoring of PHC clinic-based nurses in HIV/AIDS case management for the decentralization of ART programme way before IMAI and NIMART programs were introduced in the country. This was a solution to the problem recurrent floods in Zambezi region.
- Responsible for the decentralizing of the ART programme from the main urban district and regional hospitals to rural health centres and clinics hence closer to the patients in Zambezi region.
- Spearheaded the initiative of in-service HIV/AIDS trainings for non-ART health care workers to improve skills in early recognition of HIV/AIDS related signs and symptoms, hence early diagnosis, and treatment of patients.
- Established SOPs for quality improvements for general patient (non-HIV related) care services in the hospital and received a certificate of recognition for this achievement from the Regional Management Team.
Medical Officer
Union Medical Centre
08.2006 - 04.2007
- Private Practitioner for Union Medical Centre in Grootfontein and Katima Mulilo branches.
- Responsible for all patient care health services delivery, including HIV prevention, care and treatment for Key Population clients.
- Ordered medical and laboratory supplies and equipment including ensuring their maintenance.
- Applied continuous process improvement strategies to enhance case management and good treatment outcomes.
- Captured patient history, current medical conditions and medications into the electronic medical records system.
- Discussed medical histories with patients in effort to provide most effective medical advice.
- Interpreted diagnostic test results for deviations from normal.
- Improved patient outcomes and delivery of care through improved clinical quality processes.
- Completed patient referrals to other medical specialists.
- Communicated with patients, ensuring that medical information was kept private.
- Conducted routine facility inspections, identifying areas needing improvement and eliminating hazards posed to staff and residents for continued compliance with associated regulations.
- Ordered all pharmacy supplies and kept check on inventory levels.
- Removed trash and straightened counters to keep pharmacy area clean and neat.
Medical Officer
Makerere University Infectious Diseases Institute LTD, Mulago National Referral Hospital
08.2003 - 07.2006
- General clinical case management and care for HIV/AIDS patients for both inpatients and outpatients, including Key Population clients from within the country and from Kenya.
- Bio-clinical monitoring, follow-up, and management of patients on Anti-Retroviral therapy with drug toxicity or adverse reactions/effects as well as detection and timely switching of ART regimens for cases of treatment failure.
- Training, mentoring and clinical assessment of trainee doctors that came from all over the world for Comprehensive HIV/AIDS training at the Makerere University Infectious Diseases Institute, in Kampala, Uganda.
- Periodical preparations of clinical cases of HIV/AIDS and presentations thereof at the weekly case conferences for improved treatment outcomes and early identification of treatment failures.
- Responsible for healthcare workers HIV/AIDS training needs assessment surveys in rural district hospitals and health centres under the PEPFAR/CDC programs.
- Carrying out HIV/AIDS training workshops for medical workers in rural health centres through programs sponsored by CDC in collaboration with Makerere University Institute of Public Health and IDI LTD.
- Monitoring and assessment of patients’ adherence to medications and development of key adherence assessment tools and standard operating procedures.
- Running of the specialized clinics such as Kaposi’s sarcoma, Cryptococcal and TB clinics, for research data collection on Anti-Retroviral Treatment outcomes or end points.
- Screening and recruitment of eligible clients for the various research studies and clinical trials that were being conducted at the Makerere University Infectious Diseases Institute.
Education
Masters in Public Health Program - Current Student of Masters in Public Health
UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX
United Kingdom2024
Postgraduate Diploma - HIV/AIDS Management
UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH
Cape Town, South Africa2010
Bachelors of Medicine And Bachelors of Surgery - MBChB
MAKERERE UNIVERSITY
Kampala, Uganda2002
Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (U.A.C.E) - Physics, Chemistry And Biology
NAMILYANGO COLLEGE
Uganda1997
Skills
- Instructional Materials Development
- Continuous Quality Improvements and Program Performance Measurements
- Administrative Staff Supervision
- Patient Care
- Staff Development and Training
- Improving Clinical Quality Outcomes
- Clinical Staff Management
- Use of Health Information Systems for Clinical Data Analysis
- Health Programs Implementation
Accomplishments
- Introduced localised (CDC-based) mentoring in HIV/AIDS case management training for rural clinic-based nurses for the decentralisation of ART programme, prior introduction of IMAI programme
- Spearheaded the initiative of in-service HIV/AIDS trainings for non-ART health care workers to improve skills in early recogniton of HIV/AIDS related signs and symptoms, hence early diagnosis, and treatment of patients
- Responsible for establishment of SOPs for quality improvements for general patient care services in the hospital and received a certificate of recognition for this achievement from the Regional Management Team
- Responsible for HIVQUAL programme implementation and monitoring in the Zambezi region
- Duties and responsibilities as a Medical Officer at Makerere University Infectious Diseases Institute in Uganda were as follows:
- Training, mentoring and clinical assessment of trainee doctors that came from all over the world for Comprehensive HIV/AIDS training at the Makerere University Infectious Diseases Institute, in Kampala, Uganda
- Periodical preparations of clinical cases of HIV/AIDS and presentations thereof at the weekly case conferences for improved treatment outcomes and early identification of treatment failures
- Responsible for healthcare workers HIV/AIDS training needs assessment surveys in rural district hospitals and health centres under the PEPFAR/CDC programmes
- Carrying out HIV/AIDS training workshops for medical workers in rural health centres through programmes sponsored by CDC in collaboration with Makerere University Institute of Public Health and IDI LTD
- General clinical management and care for HIV/AIDS patients for both inpatients and outpatients, including treatment of opportunistic infections
- Clinical monitoring, follow-up, and management of patients on Anti-Retroviral therapy with drug toxicity or adverse reactions/effects as well as detection and timely switching of ART regimens for cases of treatment failure
- Monitoring and assessment of patients’ adherence to medications and development of key adherence assessment tools and standard operating procedures
- Running of the specialised clinics such as Kaposi’s sarcoma, Cryptococcal and TB clinics, for research data collection on Anti-Retroviral Treatment outcomes or end points
- Screening and recruitment of eligible clients for the various research studies and clinical trials that were being conducted at the Makerere University Infectious Diseases Institute.
Affiliations
Member of Namibian HIV Clinicians' Society
Timeline
Regional Clinical Mentor, Trainer and Quality Improvement
CDC/Ministry of Health and Social Services
12.2016 - Current
Private Practitioner Medical Officer
Okongo Medical Centre
03.2011 - 10.2016
Medical Officer
CDC/Ministry of Health and Social Services
05.2007 - 02.2011
Medical Officer
Union Medical Centre
08.2006 - 04.2007
Medical Officer
Makerere University Infectious Diseases Institute LTD, Mulago National Referral Hospital
08.2003 - 07.2006
Masters in Public Health Program - Current Student of Masters in Public Health
UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX
Postgraduate Diploma - HIV/AIDS Management
UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH
Bachelors of Medicine And Bachelors of Surgery - MBChB
MAKERERE UNIVERSITY
Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (U.A.C.E) - Physics, Chemistry And Biology
NAMILYANGO COLLEGE
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