Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2007 2008 2009

Details for Mechanism ID: 5766
Country/Region: Haiti
Year: 2007
Main Partner: Program for Appropriate Technology in Health
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: NGO
Funding Agency: USAID
Total Funding: $150,000

Funding for Biomedical Prevention: Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (MTCT): $150,000

Linked to Activities 9725, 9287.

SUMMARY: This activity will be carried out by the follow-on project to U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)'s Linkages Project, for which a contractor will be selected in late 2006.

ACTIVITIES AND EXPECTED RESULTS: Activity 1: The primary responsibility of this partner will be to provide training for health care professionals from PMTCT sites to work with HIV positive women before and after delivery on issues of best infant and young children feeding practices. This nutritional advice and education is part of the complete package of PMTCT services based on providing the mother with the information to make an informed choice about the feeding of her child. The partner institution will work in coordination within the context of the PMTCT training program carried out by the Haitian Institute for Community Health (INHSAC) to conduct trainings and also to ensure that INHSAC training staff is trained to carry out the IYCF training program on their own in subsequent years. Health care providers and counselors at PMTCT sites will be trained in the provision of quality PMTCT services, focusing mainly on the post-natal transmission of HIV and with a particular emphasis on the interactions between ARV drugs and nutrition. IHNSAC staff will provide this same training to health care workers and community health agents of the USG's community-based implementing partners on optimal nutrition counseling of women and children in community education and outreach settings. These activities will build on the training activities conducted by INHSAC and Accessibility to Reproductive Health Services/John Hopkins Program for International Education & Gynecology Obstetric (ACCESS/JHPIEGO) in the area of PMTCT and will coordinate with activities carried out by Catholic Relief Services, Cooperative for American Relief Everywhere (CARE) and World Vision with mothers in their community-based OVC programs. Nursing staff, social workers and community health agents will be trained in the promotion of best infant feeding practices.