Training Resources

FANTA Site – Focus Area: HIV

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  • 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.

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  • Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Nutrition People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) PEPFAR Policy Programming Guidance Training Resources Websites
  • Community Health Workers in WASH-HIV Integration

    • 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.

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  • 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
  • Participatory Health and Hygiene Education (HIV and AIDS Focused) Workshop Manual

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    • 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.

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  • Handwashing (Hand Washing) Household Water Treatment & Storage People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) Sanitation/Feces Disposal Training Resources
  • Programming Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Activities in U.S. Government Country Operational Plans (COPs): A Toolkit for FY2010 Planning

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    • HIP. 2010. USAID

    • Summary:
    • The toolkit was developed to provide people working in the HIV/AIDS field—especially USG PEPFAR Coordinators and USAID HIV field staff —with a set of flexible materials to raise their own understanding and help them facilitate better programming for WASH in PEPFAR Country Operational Plans. The aim is to help people at all levels to more effectively prevent diarrheal disease and other unnecessary illnesses, using simple, effective, low-input strategies that may have not been addressed by PEPFAR programs in the past. The emphasis of this programming guidance is to “mainstream” water, sanitation and hygiene interventions—to make them a regular part of all behavior change and education activities in HIV/AIDS programs.

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  • Best Practices and Lessons Learned Diarrheal Diseases Handwashing (Hand Washing) Household Water Treatment & Storage PEPFAR Programming Guidance Sanitation/Feces Disposal Training Resources
  • Improving the Lives of People Living with HIV through WASH: Water Sanitation and Hygiene (v. 2010)

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    • AIDSTAR-One. 2010

    • Summary:
    • This training guide provides an easy to follow training template suitable for a 3 to 4 day training targeting health workers and supervisors at health clinics. The Participant Technical Resource Guide provides practical and evidence-based information for WASH implementation in all types of health facilities in resource-limited countries, focusing on increasing the health of people living with HIV.

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  • Evidence Base Handwashing (Hand Washing) Healthcare Facilities Household Water Treatment & Storage People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) Sanitation/Feces Disposal Training Resources
  • Programming Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Activities in U.S. Government Country Operational Plans (COPs): A Toolkit for FY2010 Planning

    • Source:
    • HIP. 2008. Washington, DC. United States Agency for International Development.

    • Summary:
    • The toolkit was developed to provide people working in the HIV/AIDS field—especially USG PEPFAR Coordinators and USAID HIV field staff —with a set of flexible materials to raise their own understanding and help them facilitate better programming for WASH in PEPFAR Country Operational Plans. The aim is to help people at all levels to more effectively prevent diarrheal disease and other unnecessary illnesses, using simple, effective, low-input strategies that may have not been addressed by PEPFAR programs in the past. The emphasis of this programming guidance is to “mainstream” water, sanitation and hygiene interventions—to make them a regular part of all behavior change and education activities in HIV/AIDS programs.

  • Keywords:
  • Diarrheal Diseases Handwashing (Hand Washing) Household Water Treatment & Storage PEPFAR Programming Guidance Sanitation/Feces Disposal Small Doable Actions Training Resources
  • Community Home-Based Care for People and Communities Affected by HIV/AIDS: A Handbook for Community Health Workers

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    • Colton T et al. 2006. Community Home-Based Care for People and Communities Affected by HIV/AIDS. A Handbook for Community Health Workers. Watertown, MA, Pathfinder International

    • Summary:
    • This curriculum draws on the experience of Pathfinder staff who put into practice a model of community home-based care (CHBC) in Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Uganda. Pathfinder’s CHBC model, piloted by COPHIA in Kenya, emphasizes community mobilization for prevention as well as participation in care and support for those affected by HIV/AIDS. In recent years, Pathfinder has integrated prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT), family planning, and other reproductive health initiatives into its CHBC programs in Kenya and Tanzania.

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  • Community-Based Care Home-Based Care People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) PMTCT (Preventing Mother to Child Trans.) Programming Guidance Training Resources
  • Module 4: Monitoring and Evaluating Community Home-Based Care Programs

    • Source:
    • Family Health International. 2004. Research Triangle Park, NC. Family Health International.

    • Summary:
    • The goal of the workshop is to build participants’ skills in monitoring and planning evaluations of community home-based care programs. At the end of this session, participants will be able to: a) understand the components of community home-based care (CHBC) that need to be monitored; b) develop home-based care (HBC)-specific process indicators; c) identify appropriate monitoring and evaluation methodologies and tools; and d) appreciate better the different data uses and how they influence data collection and analysis.

  • Keywords:
  • Community-Based Care Home-Based Care Indicators Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Training Resources
  • Understanding and Challenging HIV Stigma: Toolkit for Action

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    • Kidd, R & Clay, S. 2003.

    • Summary:
    • This toolkit was written by AIDS activists from over 50 nongovernmental organizations in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia. They participated in workshops where they explored the implications of stigma and designed the exercises on different aspects of stigma. The Toolkit is a resource collection of participatory educational exercises for use in raising awareness and promoting action to challenge HIV stigma. Trainers can select from the exercises to plan their own courses for different target groups——both AIDS professionals and community groups.

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  • Stigma Training Resources
  • Teacher’s Guide for the Integrated Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Education, and HIV/AIDS for Grades 1-7

    • Source:
    • UNICEF. 2001. Lusaka, Zambia. United Nations Children’s Fund.

    • Summary:
    • The school health and nutrition and HIV/AIDS components of BESSIP have developed the psychosocial life skills teachers lesson guide with a focus on water, sanitation, hygiene, and HIV/AIDS education for grades 1 to 7 to assist teach life skills in a participatory manner. These life skills are self-awareness, self-esteem, effective communication, decision making, problem solving, assertiveness, goal setting, value clarification, creative thinking, critical thinking, empathy & interpersonal relationships. The guide covers the following themes, hygiene education e.g. personal, water, food and community hygiene; environmental education e.g. sustainable environment and living in harmony at both local and national level; HIV/AIDS facts, prevention, support, and care for the affected and infected;and making a living.

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  • Food Hygiene Handwashing (Hand Washing) Household Water Treatment & Storage Sanitation/Feces Disposal Training Resources