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Community-based Therapeutic Care - A Field Manual

This manual reflects the experience gained over five years of implementing and developing Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC). It is a practical guide that aims to help health and nutrition managers to design, implement and evaluate CTC programmes. It will also be relevant to a variety of others working in relief and development.

Published in 2006, by Valid International

Emergency Field Handbook: A Guide for UNICEF Staff

This handbook has been developed as a practical tool for UNICEF field staff to meet the needs of children and women affected by disasters. It is the result of extensive consultation.

Published in 2005, by UNICEF

Evaluation of Infant Feeding in Emergencies Training Modules 1 & 2

An evaluation to assess Modules 1 & 2 of Infant Feeding in Emergencies distributed between April 2005 and February 2006.

Published in 2006, by Emergency Nutrition Network

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.

Published in 2007, by USAID, AED, WFP

Guidelines for HIV/AIDS interventions in emergency settings

These guidelines are to help individuals and organizations in their efforts to address the special needs of HIV-infected and HIV-affected people living in emergency situations. The Guidelines are based on the experiences of organizations of the UN system and their NGO partners, and reflect the shared vision that success can be achieved when resources are...

Published in 2004, by IASC

Guiding Principles for Complementary Feeding of the Breastfed Child

These guidelines can be used as the basis for developing recommendations on complementary feeding for breastfed children 6-23 months of age. The guiding principles not only set standards for practical dietary guidelines, they also discuss when, where and how young children should be fed. The guidelines are a result of several consultations and documents on...

Published in 2001, by WHO, PAHO

Guiding Principles for Feeding Infants and Young Children during Emergencies

The guiding principles that follow have been prepared to help prevent increased morbidity and mortality; they serve as a basis for action and are intended: —to clarify that optimal practices for feeding infants and young children during emergencies are essentially the same as those that apply in other, more stable conditions; —to inform...

Published in 2004, by WHO

HANDBOOK Developing and Applying National Guidelines on Nutrition and HIV/AIDS

This HANDBOOK is designed to increase nutrition capacity in East and southern Africa with a focus on the processes involved when adapting existing nutritional guidelines to suit country-specific situations and objectives. It includes guidance on how to use and produce technical material as well as monitoring and evaluating their use. It is aimed at health...

Published in 2003, by FANTA, RCQHC - Regional Centre for Quality of Health Care

HIV and Infant Feeding Guidelines for Decision-Makers

GUIDELINES for decision-makers highlighting areas of special concern around infant feeding and HIV on which policy decisions need to be made locally. They include a list of key steps and questions to guide decision-makers through the process of thinking and deciding on key issues. They are an update of the 1998 version. Key steps for decision-makers 1....

Published in 2003, by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, UNAIDS

HIV and Infant Feeding: 4 Modules-Pack: 2) A guide for health care managers and supervisors

This Guide is intended to assist mid-level health care managers and supervisors to plan and implement appropriate services. The Guide is generic, in recognition of the fact that different countries are at different stages of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and have varying resources available for dealing with it. It focuses specifically on HIV and infant feeding...

Published in 1998, by UNAIDS, WHO

HIV and Infant Feeding: Update

This document provides the full list of updated HIV and infant feeding recommendations, and an explanation of key points. This information is aimed at programme managers and decision makers, and those who will be in charge of revising national guidelines on the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV, and infant and young child feeding.

Published in 2007, by WHO, UNICEF, UNAIDS, UNFPA

HIV Transmission Through Breastfeeding A Review of Available Evidence

This publication is one of a series on HIV and infant feeding. It presents the scientific evidence relating to the transmission of HIV infection by breastfeeding; this evidence constitutes the basis of the guidelines for decision-makers and health-care managers, issued as separate documents in the series (WHO/UNICEF/UNFPA/UNAIDS)). It describes briefly the...

Published in 2003, by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, UNAIDS

Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling - an Integrated Course. Guidelines for Follow-up after training

This resource forms a part of a 5-day course that is designed to provide knowledge and skills to lay counsellors, community health workers, primary health care nurses and doctors, clinicians at first referral level and counsellors involved in the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV. It enables them to counsel and support mothers to carry out...

Published in 2006, by WHO, UNICEF

Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies: Operational Guidance for Emergency Relief Staff and Programme Managers

Operational guidance intended for emergency relief staff and programme managers of all agencies working in emergency programmes, including national governments, UN agencies, NGOs and donors. It applies to emergency situations in all countries, and extends to non-emergency situations.

Published in 2007, by Emergency Nutrition Network

Infant Feeding in Emergencies Module 1

This module covers how to feed infants, by breastfeeding and, when necessary, other options. It also addresses existing recommendations and protective policies, and gives guidance on how to provide adequate support for appropriate infant feeding. Module 1 provides an overall introduction to infant feeding in emergencies, and explains why it is an important...

Published in 2001, by ENN, WHO, UNICEF, LINKAGES, IBFAN

Infant Feeding in Emergencies Module 2 Version 1.1

Module 2 aims to provide health and nutrition workers with the basic knowledge and skills to help both breastfeeding and artificially feeding women. The first task is to support breastfeeding women, so that they do not lose confidence and introduce artificial feeds unnecessarily. The next task is to identify and help women who have feeding difficulties. The...

Published in 2007, by ENN, IBFAN-GIFA, Fondation Terre des hommes, Action Contre la Faim, CARE USA, LINKAGES, UNICEF, UNHCR, WHO

Integrating nutrition and food assistance into HIV care and treatment programmes - DRAFT

This operational guidance manual outlines the potential benefits and challenges of incorporating food and nutritional support into anti-retroviral treatment programmes. The purpose is to assist national governments with the planning and implementation of food assistance programmes and to guide national bodies, implementing NGOs as well as WHO and WFP country staff.

Published in 2008, by WHO, WFP

Integration of HIV/AIDS activities with food and nutrition support in refugee settings: specific programme strategies

This document provides practical guidance on the integration of food and nutrition programmes with support activities for people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) among refugees and host populations. It has been written principally for United Nations agencies, their cooperating partners, and other...

Published in 2004, by UNHCR, WFP

International Code of marketing Breast-Milk Substitutes

INTERNATIONAL CODE affirming the right of every child and every pregnant and lactating woman to be adequately nourished, as a means of attaining and maintaining health. It lays out recommendations for action in 11 Articles.

Published in 1981, by WHO

Living well with HIV/AIDS: A manual on nutritional care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS

This manual provides practical recommendations for a healthy and balanced diet for PLWHA in countries with a low resource base.

Published in 2002, by WHO, FAO

Management of the Child with a Serious Infection or Severe Malnutrition

A MANUAL for use by doctors, senior nurses and other senior health workers who are responsible for the care of young children at the first referral level in developing countries. It presents up-to-date clinical guidelines, prepared by experts, for both inpatient and outpatient care in small hospitals where basic laboratory facilities and essential drugs and...

Published in 2000, by WHO

Nutrition and HIV/AIDS: A Training Manual

This training course is designed to enable African institutions of higher learning to integrate nutrition and HIV and AIDS into their training programmes. The manual is intended to complement existing materials and curricula, and is targeted at tutors of medical or health sciences, applied human nutrition, dietetics or home economics, and food technology and...

Published in 2004, by FANTA

Nutrition guidelines for care and support of people living with HIV/AIDS. Zambia

The guidelines are given in 11 chapters. Chapters 2 and 3 give information on basic nutrition for an active and healthy life, and technical information that link nutrition and HIV. Chapters 4 to 9 give advise on the diet, treatment and hermal remedies, positive living and other types of care. Nutritional counselling and education, monitoring and evaluation...

Published in 2004, by Zambia, National Food and Nutrition Commission

Nutritional care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS: A training course

A training course for caregivers of PLWHA and their families that focuses on practical nutrition care and communication skills

Published in 2009, by WHO

Training Package of Materials for the Course Food and Nutrition Surveillance and Emergency - Unit I

This training course provides an understanding of the nutritional outcomes of emergencies (malnutrition, mortality and morbidity); and also the causes of malnutrition and mortality in emergencies (the process and dynamics of an emergency). The course has an operational focus, and at the same time incorporates relevant applied research.. The course itself is...

Published in 2005, by University of Nairobi, FSAU, FAO

Training Package of Materials for the Course Food and Nutrition Surveillance and Emergency - Unit II

This training course provides an understanding of the nutritional outcomes of emergencies (malnutrition, mortality and morbidity); and also the causes of malnutrition and mortality in emergencies (the process and dynamics of an emergency). The course has an operational focus, and at the same time incorporates relevant applied research.. The course itself is...

Published in 2005, by University of Nairobi, FSAU, FAO

Training Package of Materials for the Course Food and Nutrition Surveillance and Emergency - Unit III

This training course provides an understanding of the nutritional outcomes of emergencies (malnutrition, mortality and morbidity); and also the causes of malnutrition and mortality in emergencies (the process and dynamics of an emergency). The course has an operational focus, and at the same time incorporates relevant applied research.. The course itself is...

Published in 2005, by University of Nairobi, FSAU, FAO

WHO HIV Consensus Statement on Infant Feeding

Researchers, programme implementers, infant feeding experts and representatives of the IATT, UN agencies, the WHO Regional Office for Africa and six WHO headquarters departments gathered in Geneva in order to review the substantial body of new evidence and experience regarding HIV and infant feeding that has been accumulating since a previous technical...

Published in 2006, by WHO