FHI/Nepal and FHI/Vietnam Collaborate on Data Quality Audit

JULY 2008 — When program planners and funders need data from an FHI country program, they reap what has been sown. Rather than GI/GO (garbage in, garbage out), FHI prefers the QI/QO (quality in, quality out) model. That's why FHI invests much effort into ensuring the data it gathers is valid, reliable, accurate, precise, and timely. Recent collaboration between FHI/Nepal and FHI/Vietnam on a data quality audit shows that such "south-to-south" exchanges can lead to very lively, collaborative, and fruitful exchanges.

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FHI, Partners Expand Access to Treatment, Care, and Support for Children

DECEMBER 2007 — With USAID support, FHI organized and co-sponsored the launch of a children's initiative Nov. 29. FHI, UNICEF, USAID, the US and Nepalese governments, and the National Association of PLHA Nepal have partnered to help achieve universal access to treatment, care, and support for children affected by AIDS and their families. Held in conjunction with World AIDS Day activities, NAPN President Rajiv Kafle, Nepal's leading HIV/AIDS activist, attended the event, along with some 100 children and representatives of media, donors, civil society organizations, and businesses.

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Reaching Across Borders (2006–08)
Funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), Reaching Across Borders is an innovative crossborder project that provides comprehensive HIV prevention, care, and treatment to Nepali migrants and their families in Mumbai and Delhi. FHI provides technical assistance for clinical services and builds the capacities of project staff to conduct strategic behavior communication and offer HIV treatment, care, and support services to people living with AIDS and their families.

The ASHA Project
The FHI/Nepal-led ASHA Project, funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), works in partnership with the National Center for AIDS and STD Control (NCASC), Ministry of Health and Population. ASHA activities contribute to the Government of Nepal's National HIV/AIDS Strategy and Action Plan. Activities include prevention programs for most-at-risk groups, treatment, care, and support programs for PLHA, advocacy and policy work, research and surveillance.

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Community and Home-Based Care in Nepal

AUGUST 2008 — With nearly 70,000 people living with HIV in Nepal, community and home-based care is vitally important to ensuring that all have access to care and defense against stigma and discrimination. This review details a national assessment of service models of community and home-based care across Nepal. The goal of the assessment is to use the findings and recommendations to guide future implementation and scale-up of community and home-based care services in areas of need.

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Effectiveness of MSM Programs in Nepal Analyzed

OCTOBER 2007 — A study prepared by FHI's Asia Pacific Regional Office (APRO) reveals an overall positive effect of FHI programming on knowledge, sexual risk behavior, and access to commodities and services through a variety of interventions such as behavior change, advocacy, networking, community mobilization, and capacity building. However, quality and coverage were inconsistent from one site to another and there is a need to promote a minimum package of priority interventions along with improved organizational capacity and program monitoring.

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Featured Donor: USAID

Through donors such as USAID, FHI supports Nepal and its organizations in preventing the spread of HIV and improving HIV/AIDS care and support among those at highest risk.

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