Healthcare Facilities

Improving the Lives of People Living with HIV through WASH: Water Sanitation and Hygiene (v. 2010)

Summary:
This training guide provides an easy to follow training template suitable for a 3 to 4 day training targeting health workers and supervisors at health clinics. The Participant Technical Resource Guide provides practical and evidence-based information for WASH implementation in all types of health facilities in resource-limited countries, focusing on increasing the health of people living with HIV.

Summary:
Strategies to care for people infected with HIV/AIDS and the correlation with water, sanitation and hygiene should be explored by asking questions such as: How does the family get water? Will there be any changes in the family’s water needs? If so, what might these be? What can be done to prolong the progression from HIV to AIDS? Exploring these questions, water, sanitation and hygiene needs of households affected by HIV/AIDS; links with home-based care and clinics for treatment, care and support; and the implications for policy makers, planners and health promoters, can be discussed together constructively.

Source:
Lamptey PR, Gayle HD. 2001. Research Triangle Park, NC, Family Health International

Summary:
Chapter 25 focuses on providing healthcare for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) in resource-constrained countries. Health facilities in these areas often lack the resources to offer high-quality medical care to the general public—much less meet the complex demands of AIDS-related morbidity and mortality. The challenge of improving PLHA’s quality of life requires a more comprehensive or holistic approach—an approach that meets the medical, psychological and social needs of people and families living with HIV. Strategy and policy development can be linked with development of a managed, rational system of care and referral that supports community-based initiatives and implementing agencies should integrate family and community support programs into health, education, agriculture, water and sanitation sectors.