Integration of HIV/AIDS activities with food and nutrition support in ...

distribution, supplementary feeding of vulnerable groups, therapeutic feeding programmes,
school feeding, and integration of a supplementary ration into AIDS-related
programmes (e.g., home-based care).
• Training, capacity building, and institutional support activities aim to build the
capacity of families, health care providers (facility-based, extension and traditional) and
community groups to care for people infected or highly affected by HIV/AIDS, and to
be self-sufficient.
• Household food and livelihood security activities aim to involve HIV/AIDS-affected
families in projects that increase their nutritional security, self-sufficiency and resilience
over time.
Figure 2. Integration of HIV/AIDS, food and nutrition activities
into integrated programme strategies
HIV/AIDS
ACTIVITIES
Health care
and treatment
activities for the
HIV/AIDS-affected
Support and care
activities for the
HIV/AIDS-affected
HIV/AIDS
prevention activities
INTEGRATED PROGRAMME
STRATEGIES
Integrating aspects
in two ways:
Incorporating HIV/AIDS
activities into food and
nutrition programmes
(Chapter 3, Strategies 1-12)
Incorporating food and
nutrition activities into
HIV/AIDS programmes
(Chapter 4,Strategies 13-20)
FOOD/NUTRITION
ACTIVITIES
Emergency food
distribution and
nutrition activities
Training, capacity
building, and
institutional
support activities
Figure 3 shows how the integrated programme strategies link the three areas of HIV/AIDS
intervention with the three areas of food and nutrition intervention.
2.4 Guiding principles of integrated programmes
The integrated programme strategies included in this document are diverse, but they share a
number of guiding principles.
1. Refugee protection programmes should be based on a local analysis of the HIV/AIDS
and the food security/nutrition situations, and will often benefit from a comprehensive
approach towards HIV/AIDS and nutrition services or interventions.
An assessment of the local epidemiology of HIV/AIDS, in both the refugee and the host communities,
as well as of food security and nutrition, is the essential first step towards identifying
programme strategies, objectives, indicators for monitoring and evaluation, and benchmarks
for programme decision-making. A comprehensive approach recognizes that PLWHA and their
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