Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2008 2009

Details for Mechanism ID: 7211
Country/Region: Côte d'Ivoire
Year: 2008
Main Partner: Program for Appropriate Technology in Health
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: NGO
Funding Agency: USAID
Total Funding: $500,000

Funding for Care: Orphans and Vulnerable Children (HKID): $500,000

Nutrition support, an important aspect of comprehensive treatment, palliative care, and OVC services, has

been limited in many PEPFAR-supported programs. In an effort to develop and implement a comprehensive

nutrition strategy for PEPFAR-supported HIV/AIDS programs in Cote d'Ivoire, the USG country team used

FY07 plus-up funds to finance detailed evaluations and nutritional assessments to define and develop

appropriate protocols for OVC and PLWHA receiving palliative-care and treatment services. The evaluation

and planning work is being done by a two-partner team consisting of AED/FANTA and IYCN/PATH, with

PEPFAR technical support.

Building on this FY07 work, IYCN/PATH will use reprogrammed FY08 funding, if approved, to support the

continued development and evaluation and the implementation of strategies for improving the quality and

targeted provision of nutrition support to OVC, including infants of sero-positive mothers, as well as

pregnant and lactating women.

Strategies will include, as appropriate, infant feeding, counseling, support, and follow-up for all HIV-exposed

infants and mothers, along with a package of child-survival and reproductive-health interventions with

linkages to HIV prevention, treatment, and care services; nutritional assessment, counseling, and support

as an integrated part of care, including routine assessment of anthropometric status, nutrition-related

symptoms, and diet, with therapeutic or supplementary feeding support for malnourished clients; linkages to

food aid and social services that can assist in the assessment and support of household food security;

training for health workers and OVC caregivers; and wrap-around nutrition support provided as part of home

-based palliative care and OVC care.

Continuing its collaboration with the AED/FANTA follow-on project (after the AED/FANTA project ends in

2008), PATH/IYCN will use FY08 funding to provide technical assistance to PEPFAR-supported facility- and

community-based OVC care providers as well as to the World Food Program (WFP) to develop and

implement nutrition activities. Technical assistance will also support development of a national policy on

nutrition for persons living with or affected by HIV/AIDS.