Nutrition care for people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA): training manual for community and home-based care providers: facilitators guide
A guide to equip community and home-based care providers with basic skills in nutrition care and support to people living with HIV and AIDS
This facilitators’ guide, published by Regional Centre for Quality of Health Care, aims at equipping community health workers (CHWs) and home-based care providers with the basic skills needed to provide nutrition care and support to people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA).
The training package first provides basic information about nutrition and then focuses on nutrition care for PLWHA. The topics covered include: the relationship between nutrition and HIV, assessing nutritional status, improving food intake, managing food and drug interactions and complications of HIV, caring for HIV-positive women and children infected with or affected by HIV, food and water safety and hygiene, principles of counselling and referrals and networking.
This facilitators guide is supported by a package of participant handouts that complement the summary of content for each session. Additionally, there is a suggested training schedule which provides ideas for how this guide can be used to design training outlines.
