... trainee projects and their impact on policy and practice in Zimbabweinclude:• a study of infant feeding among HIV-positive moth-ers in 2003 that led to increased training in feedingcounselling ... both to increase the number of trainees and to improve trainee resources, including computers, text-books and housing.A local expatriate technical advisor was hired to assist withteaching and ... dedicated, trained health workers in the coun-try and allow trainees to contribute immediately and pro-ductively to important public health issues while still in training and in formal mentoring [10,19,21,22].Programme...