Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Details for Mechanism ID: 7312
Country/Region: Côte d'Ivoire
Year: 2007
Main Partner: Academy for Educational Development
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: NGO
Funding Agency: USAID
Total Funding: $100,000

Funding for Care: Adult Care and Support (HBHC): $100,000

Nutrition support, an important aspect of comprehensive treatment, palliative care, and OVC services, has been less than systematic in many EP-supported programs. Plus-up funds are requested to develop and implement strategies for improving the quality and targeted provision of nutrition support to selected 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 to 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. Funded activities will include detailed evaluations and nutritional assessments to define and develop appropriate protocols for PLWHA receiving palliative-care services.