Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Details for Mechanism ID: 7222
Country/Region: Côte d'Ivoire
Year: 2008
Main Partner: Population Council
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: NGO
Funding Agency: USAID
Total Funding: $0

Funding for Care: Orphans and Vulnerable Children (HKID): $0

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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 PLWHA receiving palliative-care and treatment services, as well as for OVC. The

evaluation and planning work was done by a three-partner team consisting of AED/FANTA, PATH/ICYN,

and Population Council/Horizon, with PEPFAR technical support.

Building on this FY07 work, FY08 funding will be used to support the continued development and evaluation

and the implementation of strategies for improving the quality and targeted provision of nutrition support to

patients receiving ART and palliative care as well as to OVC, pregnant women, and infants of sero-positive

mothers.

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 clinical care and treatment of PLWHA, including routine assessment of

anthropometric status, nutrition-related symptoms, and diet, with therapeutic or supplementary feeding

support for malnourished patients; 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 FANTA and PATH, the Population Council/Horizon project 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.