Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Health­care sec­tor is now in pos­ses­sion of a new Learn­ing Man­age­ment Sys­tem (LMS). The sys­tem was de­vel­oped with the sup­port of the Unit­ed States Gov­ern­ment through the Cen­ters for Dis­ease Con­trol and Pre­ven­tion (CDC) and the Pres­i­dent's Emer­gency Plan for AIDS Re­lief (PEP­FAR). The net­work will serve as a cen­tralised dig­i­tal hub for train­ing, pro­vid­ing health­care work­ers across the Min­istry of Health and the Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ties with struc­tured and ac­ces­si­ble op­por­tu­ni­ties for pro­fes­sion­al de­vel­op­ment and al­so aims at strength­en­ing knowl­edge-shar­ing across T&T’s pub­lic health sec­tor.

The pro­gramme was un­veiled on Fri­day and is set to strength­en the use of the Dis­trict Health In­for­ma­tion Soft­ware 2, which is ex­pect­ed to im­prove the col­lec­tion, analy­sis and use of health da­ta, par­tic­u­lar­ly in mon­i­tor­ing and re­spond­ing to HIV/AIDS.

The Unit­ed States Em­bassy in T&T al­so do­nat­ed 28 tablets to the Min­istry of Health which will be used to sup­port da­ta col­lec­tion for in­di­vid­u­als ac­cess­ing HIV test­ing ser­vices, strength­en­ing pro­gramme mon­i­tor­ing and sur­veil­lance ef­forts.The event al­so ac­knowl­edged health­care work­ers who com­plet­ed on­line train­ing as well.