People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV)
Source:
- Catholic Relief Services
Summary:
- A healthy environment is crucial for maintaining the quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS, and for the success of home-based care. The WHO estimates that 85 to 90 percent of diarrheal illnesses in developing countries can be attributed to unsafe water and inadequate sanitation and hygiene practices, such as handwashing with soap, treatment and safe storage of water, and safe feces disposal. Proper care requires not only safe drinking water, but also larger quantities of water for hygiene and sanitation purposes, and because of
physical limitations caused by HIV/ AIDS, the design of water and sanitation facilities greatly influences effective access to these services. Unfortunately, water and sanitation services are extremely limited in many of the countries most
affected by the HIV/ AIDS pandemic.
Keywords:
Accessing Water Diarrheal Diseases Evidence Base Handwashing (Hand Washing) Home-Based Care Household Water Treatment & Storage Innovation People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) Sanitation/Feces Disposal
Source:
- FANTA (Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance)
Summary:
- HIV compromises the nutritional status of infected individuals and malnutrition worsens the effects of the disease. Nutrition interventions can help break this cycle by helping PLHIV manage symptoms, reduce susceptibility to opportunistic infections, improve nutritional status, promote response to medical treatment, and improve overall quality of life. Specifically,with support from USAID and PEPFAR, FANTA-2:
a) provides technical assistance to strengthen nutrition assessment, counseling, and support for PLHIV;
b) improves food assistance security programming in the context of HIV;
c) produces and disseminates program guidance on nutritional care and support interventions;
d) helps countries in east and southern Africa adapt HIV-nutrition guidance to their specific contexts through national guidelines, training curricula and programs, counseling materials, monitoring and evaluation support, and capacity-building activities;
e) provides in-country support to integrate and scale up nutrition interventions in HIV services in Kenya, Namibia, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia;
f) strengthens the evidence base about the impacts of food supplementation on malnourished PLHIV;
g) supports randomized controlled evaluations in Malawi and Kenya; and
h) supports improved program design and monitoring and evaluation of food-assisted programs addressing HIV and its impacts through technical assistance to USAID.
Keywords:
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Nutrition People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) PEPFAR Policy Programming Guidance Training Resources Websites
Source:
- Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation & C-Change/FHI 360. 2011.
Summary:
- Community health workers (CHWs) — the core of the community strategy
— are expected to mobilize and energize communities to take charge of their
own health. The approach used in this Training Guide harnesses capacity for
improving WASH practices by having CHWs negotiate small doable actions
that individuals and families can take to improve their behavior incrementally
while working toward an ideal practice. This approach is more likely to lead to sustained behavior change by ensuring that families identify feasible but effective actions that they can practice correctly and consistently, thereby improving the likelihood that the practice will be maintained over time. It also supports incremental change; once smaller successes are realized, families feel ready to take on bigger challenges.
Keywords:
Community-Based Care Diarrheal Diseases Handwashing (Hand Washing) Household Water Treatment & Storage People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) Sanitation/Feces Disposal Small Doable Actions Training Resources
Source:
- Institute of Water and Sanitation Development. 2011. Zimbabwe
Summary:
- The objective of the ZIMWASH project is to strengthen the capacity of civil society and local government in Zimbabwe to provide sustainable integrated water, sanitation and hygiene services that address the needs of the rural poor, especially those of people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. It was against this background that a training of trainers workshop on Participatory Health and Hygiene Education (focusing on HIV and AIDS) was conducted in Hwange District. This manual provides the schedule and training materials for the five-day workshop.
Keywords:
Handwashing (Hand Washing) Household Water Treatment & Storage People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) Sanitation/Feces Disposal Training Resources
Source:
- WaterAid in Nepal. 2010.
Summary:
- The main objective of the study was to increase the understanding of PLHAs’ access to WASH and its impact on their daily lives in order to inform the health, HIV/AIDS and WASH sectors of the various issues involved. Specifically, the study aimed to:
- Assess the prevailing knowledge, opinions and practices of WASH amongst PLHA.
- Learn about the experiences of PLHA with regards to their access to WASH and factors associated with it.
- Gather views of PLHA on WASH and its link to their social lives and health.
- Highlight the need for cross-sector debate and efforts to address the WASH issues for PLHA within the health, HIV/AIDS and WASH sectors.
Keywords:
Accessing Water Evidence Base Handwashing (Hand Washing) People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) Sanitation/Feces Disposal Stigma
Source:
- Momba MNB, Madoroba E, Obi CL. 2010. Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa.
Summary:
- Worldwide there is a strong association between diarrhoeal diseases and contaminated water. South Africa is no exception. The majority of households in developing countries, the epicentre of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, obtain their water from polluted and contaminated sources. Diarrhoeic pathogens have been more frequently isolated from stool samples of HIV/AIDS patients, and from their respective household drinking water, than from HIV-negative control groups. For these reasons, there are links between the quality of water, diarrhoea and HIV/AIDS, despite the fact that these aspects, at first glance, do not seem connected.
Keywords:
Diarrheal Diseases Evidence Base Household Water Treatment & Storage People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV)
Source:
- Bery, R & Seumo, E. 2010. USAID & HIP.
Summary:
- Recording of HIP's webinar on "Meeting the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Needs of People Living with HIV/AIDS and their Families," held April 8, 2010. Presented by Renuka Bery, senior project manager and Eleonore Suemo, senior program officer. Julia Rosenbaum, deputy director of HIP and Elizabeth Younger, senior behavior change advisor, joined during the question and answer session.
Keywords:
Evidence Base Handwashing (Hand Washing) Household Water Treatment & Storage People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) Sanitation/Feces Disposal
