Food Assistance Programming in the Context of HIV

Food Assistance Programming in the Context of HIV, a joint publication by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the FANTA Project, is a guide developed to improve the design and implementation of food security programs that respond to HIV-related challenges as well as HIV programs that utilize food and food-related activities to achieve HIV-related outcomes. WFP and FANTA produced the guide in collaboration with Technical Assistance to NGOs (TANGO) International, and with the input and participation of more than 100 food security or HIV practitioners from more than 30 non-governmental, bilateral and multilateral organizations.

As the links between food insecurity and HIV become better understood, there is increasing acknowledgment in the development community of the corresponding need to integrate food and nutritional support into a comprehensive response to the epidemic. Food Assistance Programming in the Context of HIV addresses this need by providing a set of tools, promising practices and key considerations that enhance the flexibility and appropriateness of program design and implementation modalities.

The guide is for program directors, program advisors and senior program managers who are directly involved in the analysis and formulation of food assistance strategies and country program activities at HQ and in regional and field offices.

This guide is the product of a collaboration between WFP’s HIV/AIDS Service and USAID’s FANTA Project. Support for FANTA for the development of the guide came from USAID's Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance's Office of Food for Peace, the Bureau for Global Health's Office of Health, Infectious Disease and Nutrition and Office of HIV/AIDS, the Bureau for Africa and USAID/East Africa.

The guide is available to download here by section or in its entirety.