High rates of malnutrition in Ethiopia worsen the impact of HIV
and pose significant challenges to HIV care and treatment. To address
this challenge and improve care and treatment for people living
with HIV, FANTA worked with the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Ministry of Health and partners to develop the following resources:
an updated version of
National Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Nutrition;
the
Ethiopian Guide to Clinical Nutrition Care for Children
and Adults with HIV Trainers Manual and the
Ethiopian Guide to Clinical Nutrition Care for Children and Adults with HIV
Trainees Manual, which are Ethiopia’s
national training materials on nutrition and HIV for health care
workers; the
National Nutrition and HIV/AIDS Implementation Reference
Manual, which provides a national operational strategy for nutrition
and HIV interventions; and Nutrition and HIV Behavior Change Communication Tools (see below),
a set of job aids, counseling cards, and other materials for health
care workers to use for nutrition assessment and counseling.
These materials provide guidance and tools that health care workers
in Ethiopia are using to incorporate nutrition into a range of community
and facility-based HIV services.
Support for this work was provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/Ethiopia and
USAID’s Office of Health, Infectious Diseases, and Nutrition, Bureau for Global Health.
Ethiopia
Nutrition and HIV Tools (2008)
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