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This publication by C-Change and WASHplus describes how to incorporate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) into PEPFAR’s adult and pediatric basic care packages (BCP), identifies opportunities for WASH/PEPFAR Integration, potential in-country partners, and sanitation/WASH promotion materials, and explores possible sanitation programming within PEPFAR.
Globally, more than 33 million people now live with HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS 2009). This pandemic has dramatically changed patterns of disease in developing countries. In addition, previously rare “opportunistic” diseases have become more common. High rates of morbidity and mortality from endemic conditions such as tuberculosis (TB), diarrheal diseases, and wasting syndromes, formerly confined to the elderly and malnourished, are now common among young and middle-aged people in many development countries. With increasing availability of antiretroviral therapies (ART), more people live with HIV and AIDS and require comprehensive care, treatment, and preventive services to help boost their resilience to the endemic conditions in their environment and help them live longer and healthier lives. Recognizing the importance of safe water, sanitation, and hygiene promotion in protecting and caring for people living with HIV (PLHIV), the trend is to integrate WASH improvement into HIV and AIDS policies and programs.
As part of its palliative care approach, PEPFAR has developed a preventive care package that summarizes evidence-based interventions for PLHIV and their families in resource-poor settings. The package identifies three key hygiene improvement practices – safe drinking water, washing hands with soap, and safe handling and disposal of feces – and suggests integrating these into all HIV and AIDS programs.
This 4-page technical note on NACS was released by FANTA III. The NACS approach aims to improve the nutritional status of individuals and populations by integrating nutrition into policies, programs, and the health service delivery infrastructure.
Quality Improvement and Verification Checklists (QIVCs) provide a detailed check of development workers’ performance on their key processes in order to monitor and improve their performance, identify “system problems,” and to encourage them. QIVCs are being used in many countries throughout the world to improve key processes.&
Many persons in rural areas of developing countries who are infected with, and affected by, HIV and AIDS depend on agriculture as a significant component of their livelihood. However, there is limited practical advice to date on how agriculture and environment interventions can be used to strengthen HIV and AIDS prevention and mitigation programs in the field. This paper provides some practical ideas and options for doing this.
These 4 documents are Critical Resource Information Briefs published in 2008 by Africare and USAID. The Briefs include:
Selecting FANTA Indicators for Nutrition Education for People Living with HIV (PLHIV) - a complete list of FANTA indicators for measuring the impact of nutritional education and counseling tailored specifically to PLHIV. It is intended to assist in development of key tracking indicators for nutrition and education activities that are targeted for and will inevitable impact people living with HIV as the new round of Africare food security projects are initiated in 2009.
Overview of FANTA and WFP Guide on Food Assistance Programming in the Context of HIV - developed to provide a condensed overview of the contents of each chapter of the FANTA AND WFP guide “Food Assistance Programming in the Context of HIV” and to note some of the topics and issues that would be of particular interest to Africare. The guide covers a broad range of issues relevant to food assistance in areas of high HIV prevalence, from information on potential donors of programs that integrate food assistance and HIV to monitoring and evaluation systems, from education to emergency response.
Proxy Indicators for Identifying HIV-Affected Households - provides a list of proxy indicators from FANTA and WFP (2007), as well as other sources such as Save the Children (2004) and UN WFP (2008), for identifying people living with HIV (PLHIV) and their households. The aim is to provide Africare staff and field staff from other Title II Cooperating Sponsors with the critical information needed to select the most promising and appropriate proxy indicators for identifying HIV-affected individuals and households in a quick reference format. Field teams that intend to more specifically target HIV-affected households in their food security initiatives should use this brief to select a number of proxy indicators to field test and validate.
Selecting FANTA/WFP Indicators for Food Programming in the Context of HIV - presents a list of the indicators recommended in the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance project and the World Food Programme guide “Food Assistance Programming in the Context of HIV” for assessing the impacts of food programming on households in HIV-affected areas. It also briefly presents the most basic factors to consider when developing and selecting M&E indicators for this purpose that are more comprehensively addressed in the FANTA and WFP guide. It is intended as a quick reference to the much more detailed and comprehensive FANTA/WFP guide.
This guidance document offers water supply and sanitation facility and hygiene promotion design considerations and recommendations intended to increase access to these facilities by people living with HIV. People living with HIV often require modifications to their water supply and sanitation facilities and hygiene practices due to their debilitating illness. This guidance document is intended for Home-Based Care (HBC) practitioners serving people living with this disease as well as water and sanitation engineers and technicians tasked with providing community water supply and household sanitation systems.
This Guidance Note provides an overview of the complex interactions between GBV, HIV and AIDS and rural livelihoods, based on the available literature and findings from FAO field studies in Kenya and Uganda. The studies, conducted in humanitarian settings, focused mainly on the relationships between these issues, and on identifying the appropriate livelihood strategies to mitigate and prevent GBV, and strengthen people’s resilience.
This document, a joint publication of the World Food Programme (WFP) and FANTA, provides guidance on improving the design and implementation of food security programs that respond to HIV-related challenges and of HIV programs that utilize food and food-related activities to achieve HIV-related outcomes. The guide is for program directors, program advisors, and senior program managers who are directly involved in the analysis and formulation of food assistance strategies and country program activities at headquarters, regional, and field offices.
This guide is aimed to help facilitate training peer educators to incorporate nutrition into current community-based HIV prevention, care, and treatment activities.
Quality Improvement and Verification Checklists (QIVCs) provide a detailed check of development workers’ performance on their key processes in order to monitor and improve their performance, identify “system problems,” and to encourage them. QIVCs are being used in many countries throughout the world to improve key processes.&
Quality Improvement and Verification Checklists (QIVCs) provide a detailed check of development workers’ performance on their key processes in order to monitor and improve their performance, identify “system problems,” and to encourage them. QIVCs are being used in many countries throughout the world to improve key processes.&
This publication by C-Change and WASHplus describes how to incorporate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) into PEPFAR’s adult and pediatric basic care packages (BCP), identifies opportunities for WASH/PEPFAR Integration, potential in-country partners, and sanitation/WASH promotion materials, and explores possible sanitation programming within PEPFAR.
Globally, more than 33 million people now live with HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS 2009). This pandemic has dramatically changed patterns of disease in developing countries. In addition, previously rare “opportunistic” diseases have become more common. High rates of morbidity and mortality from endemic conditions such as tuberculosis (TB), diarrheal diseases, and wasting syndromes, formerly confined to the elderly and malnourished, are now common among young and middle-aged people in many development countries. With increasing availability of antiretroviral therapies (ART), more people live with HIV and AIDS and require comprehensive care, treatment, and preventive services to help boost their resilience to the endemic conditions in their environment and help them live longer and healthier lives. Recognizing the importance of safe water, sanitation, and hygiene promotion in protecting and caring for people living with HIV (PLHIV), the trend is to integrate WASH improvement into HIV and AIDS policies and programs.
As part of its palliative care approach, PEPFAR has developed a preventive care package that summarizes evidence-based interventions for PLHIV and their families in resource-poor settings. The package identifies three key hygiene improvement practices – safe drinking water, washing hands with soap, and safe handling and disposal of feces – and suggests integrating these into all HIV and AIDS programs.
Quality Improvement and Verification Checklists (QIVCs) provide a detailed check of development workers’ performance on their key processes in order to monitor and improve their performance, identify “system problems,” and to encourage them. QIVCs are being used in many countries throughout the world to improve key processes.&
This 4-page technical note on NACS was released by FANTA III. The NACS approach aims to improve the nutritional status of individuals and populations by integrating nutrition into policies, programs, and the health service delivery infrastructure.
This guide is aimed to help facilitate training peer educators to incorporate nutrition into current community-based HIV prevention, care, and treatment activities.
Many persons in rural areas of developing countries who are infected with, and affected by, HIV and AIDS depend on agriculture as a significant component of their livelihood. However, there is limited practical advice to date on how agriculture and environment interventions can be used to strengthen HIV and AIDS prevention and mitigation programs in the field. This paper provides some practical ideas and options for doing this.
These 4 documents are Critical Resource Information Briefs published in 2008 by Africare and USAID. The Briefs include:
Selecting FANTA Indicators for Nutrition Education for People Living with HIV (PLHIV) - a complete list of FANTA indicators for measuring the impact of nutritional education and counseling tailored specifically to PLHIV. It is intended to assist in development of key tracking indicators for nutrition and education activities that are targeted for and will inevitable impact people living with HIV as the new round of Africare food security projects are initiated in 2009.
Overview of FANTA and WFP Guide on Food Assistance Programming in the Context of HIV - developed to provide a condensed overview of the contents of each chapter of the FANTA AND WFP guide “Food Assistance Programming in the Context of HIV” and to note some of the topics and issues that would be of particular interest to Africare. The guide covers a broad range of issues relevant to food assistance in areas of high HIV prevalence, from information on potential donors of programs that integrate food assistance and HIV to monitoring and evaluation systems, from education to emergency response.
Proxy Indicators for Identifying HIV-Affected Households - provides a list of proxy indicators from FANTA and WFP (2007), as well as other sources such as Save the Children (2004) and UN WFP (2008), for identifying people living with HIV (PLHIV) and their households. The aim is to provide Africare staff and field staff from other Title II Cooperating Sponsors with the critical information needed to select the most promising and appropriate proxy indicators for identifying HIV-affected individuals and households in a quick reference format. Field teams that intend to more specifically target HIV-affected households in their food security initiatives should use this brief to select a number of proxy indicators to field test and validate.
Selecting FANTA/WFP Indicators for Food Programming in the Context of HIV - presents a list of the indicators recommended in the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance project and the World Food Programme guide “Food Assistance Programming in the Context of HIV” for assessing the impacts of food programming on households in HIV-affected areas. It also briefly presents the most basic factors to consider when developing and selecting M&E indicators for this purpose that are more comprehensively addressed in the FANTA and WFP guide. It is intended as a quick reference to the much more detailed and comprehensive FANTA/WFP guide.
This Guidance Note provides an overview of the complex interactions between GBV, HIV and AIDS and rural livelihoods, based on the available literature and findings from FAO field studies in Kenya and Uganda. The studies, conducted in humanitarian settings, focused mainly on the relationships between these issues, and on identifying the appropriate livelihood strategies to mitigate and prevent GBV, and strengthen people’s resilience.
This guidance document offers water supply and sanitation facility and hygiene promotion design considerations and recommendations intended to increase access to these facilities by people living with HIV. People living with HIV often require modifications to their water supply and sanitation facilities and hygiene practices due to their debilitating illness. This guidance document is intended for Home-Based Care (HBC) practitioners serving people living with this disease as well as water and sanitation engineers and technicians tasked with providing community water supply and household sanitation systems.
This document, a joint publication of the World Food Programme (WFP) and FANTA, provides guidance on improving the design and implementation of food security programs that respond to HIV-related challenges and of HIV programs that utilize food and food-related activities to achieve HIV-related outcomes. The guide is for program directors, program advisors, and senior program managers who are directly involved in the analysis and formulation of food assistance strategies and country program activities at headquarters, regional, and field offices.
This publication by C-Change and WASHplus describes how to incorporate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) into PEPFAR’s adult and pediatric basic care packages (BCP), identifies opportunities for WASH/PEPFAR Integration, potential in-country partners, and sanitation/WASH promotion materials, and explores possible sanitation programming within PEPFAR.
Globally, more than 33 million people now live with HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS 2009). This pandemic has dramatically changed patterns of disease in developing countries. In addition, previously rare “opportunistic” diseases have become more common. High rates of morbidity and mortality from endemic conditions such as tuberculosis (TB), diarrheal diseases, and wasting syndromes, formerly confined to the elderly and malnourished, are now common among young and middle-aged people in many development countries. With increasing availability of antiretroviral therapies (ART), more people live with HIV and AIDS and require comprehensive care, treatment, and preventive services to help boost their resilience to the endemic conditions in their environment and help them live longer and healthier lives. Recognizing the importance of safe water, sanitation, and hygiene promotion in protecting and caring for people living with HIV (PLHIV), the trend is to integrate WASH improvement into HIV and AIDS policies and programs.
As part of its palliative care approach, PEPFAR has developed a preventive care package that summarizes evidence-based interventions for PLHIV and their families in resource-poor settings. The package identifies three key hygiene improvement practices – safe drinking water, washing hands with soap, and safe handling and disposal of feces – and suggests integrating these into all HIV and AIDS programs.
Many persons in rural areas of developing countries who are infected with, and affected by, HIV and AIDS depend on agriculture as a significant component of their livelihood. However, there is limited practical advice to date on how agriculture and environment interventions can be used to strengthen HIV and AIDS prevention and mitigation programs in the field. This paper provides some practical ideas and options for doing this.
These 4 documents are Critical Resource Information Briefs published in 2008 by Africare and USAID. The Briefs include:
Selecting FANTA Indicators for Nutrition Education for People Living with HIV (PLHIV) - a complete list of FANTA indicators for measuring the impact of nutritional education and counseling tailored specifically to PLHIV. It is intended to assist in development of key tracking indicators for nutrition and education activities that are targeted for and will inevitable impact people living with HIV as the new round of Africare food security projects are initiated in 2009.
Overview of FANTA and WFP Guide on Food Assistance Programming in the Context of HIV - developed to provide a condensed overview of the contents of each chapter of the FANTA AND WFP guide “Food Assistance Programming in the Context of HIV” and to note some of the topics and issues that would be of particular interest to Africare. The guide covers a broad range of issues relevant to food assistance in areas of high HIV prevalence, from information on potential donors of programs that integrate food assistance and HIV to monitoring and evaluation systems, from education to emergency response.
Proxy Indicators for Identifying HIV-Affected Households - provides a list of proxy indicators from FANTA and WFP (2007), as well as other sources such as Save the Children (2004) and UN WFP (2008), for identifying people living with HIV (PLHIV) and their households. The aim is to provide Africare staff and field staff from other Title II Cooperating Sponsors with the critical information needed to select the most promising and appropriate proxy indicators for identifying HIV-affected individuals and households in a quick reference format. Field teams that intend to more specifically target HIV-affected households in their food security initiatives should use this brief to select a number of proxy indicators to field test and validate.
Selecting FANTA/WFP Indicators for Food Programming in the Context of HIV - presents a list of the indicators recommended in the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance project and the World Food Programme guide “Food Assistance Programming in the Context of HIV” for assessing the impacts of food programming on households in HIV-affected areas. It also briefly presents the most basic factors to consider when developing and selecting M&E indicators for this purpose that are more comprehensively addressed in the FANTA and WFP guide. It is intended as a quick reference to the much more detailed and comprehensive FANTA/WFP guide.
This document, a joint publication of the World Food Programme (WFP) and FANTA, provides guidance on improving the design and implementation of food security programs that respond to HIV-related challenges and of HIV programs that utilize food and food-related activities to achieve HIV-related outcomes. The guide is for program directors, program advisors, and senior program managers who are directly involved in the analysis and formulation of food assistance strategies and country program activities at headquarters, regional, and field offices.
This Guidance Note provides an overview of the complex interactions between GBV, HIV and AIDS and rural livelihoods, based on the available literature and findings from FAO field studies in Kenya and Uganda. The studies, conducted in humanitarian settings, focused mainly on the relationships between these issues, and on identifying the appropriate livelihood strategies to mitigate and prevent GBV, and strengthen people’s resilience.
This guide is aimed to help facilitate training peer educators to incorporate nutrition into current community-based HIV prevention, care, and treatment activities.
This publication by C-Change and WASHplus describes how to incorporate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) into PEPFAR’s adult and pediatric basic care packages (BCP), identifies opportunities for WASH/PEPFAR Integration, potential in-country partners, and sanitation/WASH promotion materials, and explores possible sanitation programming within PEPFAR.
Globally, more than 33 million people now live with HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS 2009). This pandemic has dramatically changed patterns of disease in developing countries. In addition, previously rare “opportunistic” diseases have become more common. High rates of morbidity and mortality from endemic conditions such as tuberculosis (TB), diarrheal diseases, and wasting syndromes, formerly confined to the elderly and malnourished, are now common among young and middle-aged people in many development countries. With increasing availability of antiretroviral therapies (ART), more people live with HIV and AIDS and require comprehensive care, treatment, and preventive services to help boost their resilience to the endemic conditions in their environment and help them live longer and healthier lives. Recognizing the importance of safe water, sanitation, and hygiene promotion in protecting and caring for people living with HIV (PLHIV), the trend is to integrate WASH improvement into HIV and AIDS policies and programs.
As part of its palliative care approach, PEPFAR has developed a preventive care package that summarizes evidence-based interventions for PLHIV and their families in resource-poor settings. The package identifies three key hygiene improvement practices – safe drinking water, washing hands with soap, and safe handling and disposal of feces – and suggests integrating these into all HIV and AIDS programs.
Quality Improvement and Verification Checklists (QIVCs) provide a detailed check of development workers’ performance on their key processes in order to monitor and improve their performance, identify “system problems,” and to encourage them. QIVCs are being used in many countries throughout the world to improve key processes.&
This 4-page technical note on NACS was released by FANTA III. The NACS approach aims to improve the nutritional status of individuals and populations by integrating nutrition into policies, programs, and the health service delivery infrastructure.
This guidance document offers water supply and sanitation facility and hygiene promotion design considerations and recommendations intended to increase access to these facilities by people living with HIV. People living with HIV often require modifications to their water supply and sanitation facilities and hygiene practices due to their debilitating illness. This guidance document is intended for Home-Based Care (HBC) practitioners serving people living with this disease as well as water and sanitation engineers and technicians tasked with providing community water supply and household sanitation systems.
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