Training is a vital part of ACET activity. It means we can multiply impact of existing AIDS programmes many times over, helping accelerate a global church-based movement of passionate men and women, who are committed to making a difference in sustainable, reproducible, culturally appropriate, cost-effective and practical ways.

That is why the "ACET" influence and impact over the years has been far wider than the size of the country-based programmes would suggest. The church is the world's largest organisation and the main provider of health care services in some nations, apart from the government, so mobilising this faith-based community is vitally important as part of integrated national AIDS strategies.

In many places today there are excellent programmes which have been modelled or profoundly influenced by existing ACET inititiatives, inspired by project visits, workshops, seminars or by training resources such as "The Truth about AIDS" - first published in 1987.

In Romania alone, over 100,000 health care workers have been reached in partnership with UNICEF, while thousands more people have also received expert training in health promotion and care.

Training takes place in many different parts of the world, while representatives of ACET International Alliance have played key roles in seminars and workshops at conferences such as Prescription for Hope (Samaritan's Purse, Washington), Global AIDS conferences (WHO / UNAIDS) and so on.

Alliance members contribute technical experience and advice via consulting relationships with a number of international NGOs, on such issues as project design, best-practice, capacity building, leadership development, measuring outcomes, cultural adaptation of prevention messages, setting up care programmes, writing funding applications and assisting with formal project audits and evaluations. Most technical support is offered on a regional basis, in many different languages, with a particular emphasis on skills and knowlege transfer from nationals in one developing country to those in another.

ACET International Alliance organisations offer training in HIV/AIDS awareness and sexual health education as well as in a whole range of other HIV-related issues.  Contact the country nearest you for details of programmes in which you may be able to participate.

Free training resources are available in many languages in bulk for wide distribution in the poorest nations - see book orders.