Nutrition and HIV/AIDS: A Training Manual for Nurses and Midwives

Nutrition interventions are an important component of comprehensive care and support for people living with HIV (PLHIV), helping to manage symptoms, promote response to treatment and improving functioning and quality of life. With support from USAID/East Africa and USAID's Office of Health, Infectious Disease and Nutrition, Bureau for Global Health, FANTA-2 works with partners in east, central, and southern Africa to strengthen the capacity of health care providers to integrate nutrition interventions into HIV care and treatment services. As part of this initiative, FANTA-2 worked with the East, Central and Southern African Health Community (ECSA-HC) to develop Nutrition and HIV/AIDS: A Training Manual for Nurses and Midwives.

As front-line care providers, nurses play a critical role in HIV care. In many settings it is nurses who have the strongest opportunity to provide routine counseling and other support to PLHIV. Equipping nurses with nutrition and HIV knowledge and skills enables them to provide effective nutrition care and support. Nursing school curricula in the region often include little or no information on the subject. This manual is designed to address this gap by providing materials that nursing school instructors can use to teach nursing students the knowledge and skills needed for nutrition care and support of PLHIV. While designed to be used for pre-service training, it can also be used or adapted for in-service training.

The manual is organized into three parts. Part I includes introductory sessions with basic information about HIV. Part II aims to build technical knowledge. Part III provides guidance on nutrition care for different clients living with HIV. These sessions are organized based on a life cycle approach, with separate sessions on caring for adults, pregnant and lactating women, infants and young children, children 2-9 years old, and adolescents living with HIV.

Nutrition and HIV/AIDS: A Training Manual for Nurses and Midwives (without PowerPoint presentations) 2.4 mb The training manual with accompanying PowerPoint presentations is also available on CD-rom by emailing fanta@aed.org.
Section Title		Section PDF	Section PowerPoint
Covers		509 kb
Introduction		119 kb
Session 1. The Basics of HIV and AIDS		143 kb	302 kb
Session 2. The Basics of Nutrition		750 kb	190 kb
Session 3. Links Between Nutrition and HIV		234 kb	171 kb
Session 4. Nutrition Management of HIV-Related Symptoms		63 kb	147 kb
Session 5. Management of Nutrition Implications of HIV and AIDS Therapy		102 kb	156 kb
Session 6. Infant Feeding and Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS		105 kb	187 kb
Session 7. Food Security and Nutrition Care and Support of People Living with HIV		113 kb	181 kb
Session 8. Nutrition Care and Support of Adults Living with HIV		87 kb	162 kb
Session 9. Nutrition Care and Support of Pregnant and Lactating Women and Adolescents Living with HIV		139 kb	192 kb
Session 10. Infant and Child Feeding in the Context of HIV		239 kb	212 kb
Session 11. Nutrition Care for Children Living with HIV		166 kb	177 kb
Session 12. Nutrition Care for Adolescents Living with HIV		87 kb	277 kb