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ASHA Project Rolls Out Early Infant Diagnosis Initiative
Helping Families Maintain Healthy Lives
Reaching Across Borders with HIV Services for Migrant Workers
Reaching Across Borders (2006–08)
The ASHA Project
Community and Home-Based Care in Nepal
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.
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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JUNE 2009 — For the first time in Nepal, HIV-exposed babies between six weeks and 18 months old can be accurately tested for HIV infection. In January 2009, early infant diagnosis (EID) service was initiated by the FHI-led ASHA Project, funded by USAID. HIV-infected babies will now be able to access lifesaving antiretroviral therapy (ART) and other treatments, greatly increasing their chances of survival. 
APRIL 2009 — Family Health International recently secured HIV testing and treatment supplies for the Nepal National Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission Program. The supplies will be distributed among Nepal's 15 existing and five planned hospital-based PMTCT sites, 14 community-based PMTCT sites, and field teams supporting home deliveries. More than 65,000 pregnant women and their newborn children will benefit.
JANUARY 2009 — The Reaching Across Borders initiative is an FHI-pioneered approach to ensuring continuous access to ART for Nepalis who cross international borders to work in India. The program focus on prevention of HIV and provision of integrated health services. 
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.
