Thando Mnkandla

Compassionate healthcare professional with a background in nursing, known for high productivity and efficient task completion. Skilled in patient care management, emergency response, and infection control. Excel at communication, teamwork, and empathy, ensuring optimal patient outcomes and collaborative healthcare environments.

• Conduct community mobilization, demand creation, defaulter identification, tracking and tracing.
• Sexual gender-based violence screening and management.
• Supervising the community-based cadres.
• Facilitate formation and maintenance of ART refill groups and support groups.
• Pre and post-test HIV counseling and testing services.
• Offering ART initiation to all clients who test HIV positive on the same day.
• Counseling clients and giving information on available methods of family planning.
• Offering family planning methods both short and long term methods.
• Demand creation and awareness for gender-based violence and provision of post-violence care to survivors.
• Referral of gender-based violence survivors to the next level of care or to other departments.
• Screening AGYWS for Intimate Partner Violence and managing accordingly.
• Offering pre-exposure and post-exposure prophylaxis of HIV to clients.
• Offering index case contact tracing and testing.
• Planning community activities, outreaches for PrEP refill, referral and follow-up.
• Providing treatment and care for sexually transmitted infections and performing rapid syphilis testing.
• Pre and test counseling and risk reduction for HIV activities.
• Testing for PrEP and follow-up clients on PrEP for both oral PrEP and Dapivirine ring, defaulters on PrEP.
• Defaulter tracking for all clients on ART.
• Ordering, prescription and dispensing of drugs.
• Offering Adolescents Sexual Reproductive Health Services to youth and adolescents.
• Proper documentation of all clinical and laboratory procedures on all program clients.
• Update and maintenance of clinical records.
• Compiling of weekly, monthly and quarterly statistics and report writing of data timely.
• Timely submission of data to the next level where necessary.

• Integrated HIV prevention, treatment, care and support Training (HIT)
• Family Planning Methods Training IUCD Insertion and Removal, Implanon insertion and removal - Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council
• Family Planning Clinical Course - Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council
• Jadelle Insertion and Removal - Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council
• TB case management
• Sexual and Gender Based Violence
• Basic data management and analysis
• Rapid HIV Counselling and Testing
• HIV Self-Testing
• Integrated Management of adult adolescent illnesses
• Integrated Management of Acute Management
• Family Lead MUAC training
• Training on HIV/AIDS Counselling Pre and Post Test
• O.I Management and ART Training
• PMTCT protocol
• Adolescent and Child HIV Counselling (MOHCW)
• Monitoring and Evaluation of HIV programs
• Basic Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care
• Electronic Patient Monitoring (EPMS)
• Integrated Management of Childhood illnesses
• Infection Control Protocols and Guidelines
• Zimbabwe Art Distribution System
• Adult and Paediatric HIV care and treatment
• Advanced HIV Management
• Adolescents Sexual Reproductive Health - Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council
• Faith and Community Initiative HIV Self-Testing and counselling
• Enhanced Adherence Counseling Training

• Miss Chiratidzo Mushai, Insiza District Nursing officer, Filabusi Hospital, 0774379888
• Sheron Chakawora, District Manager, OPHID Insiza District
• Miss Sihandokuhle Dube, Nurse In Charge, Insiza clinic, 0784099395

• ID Number: 41-064097-M41
• Hobbies: Reading and writing, Socializing with people
• Date of Birth: 11/06/82
• Gender: Female