Treatment and Care for HIV-positive Injecting Drug Users
JUNE 2008 — FHI, along with ASEAN, USAID, and WHO have published a 12 module training course for clinicians who provide—or expect to provide—care and treatment, including antiretroviral therapy, for HIV-positive injecting drug users.
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Nursing Care of Patients with HIV/AIDS
MARCH 2008 — These training materials provide nurses in resource-limited settings with evidence-based knowledge they can use to deliver safe, effective nursing care to their patients. The materials include a facilitator's guide with PowerPoint slides and a participant's guide.
Prevention in the Care Setting
JANUARY 2008 — Until recently, prevention efforts in healthcare settings in low-resource countries have targeted persons at risk of HIV infection. However, prevention is also crucial for HIV-positive people. Two FHI publications address this important topic: a guide for health managers on incorporating prevention in the healthcare setting, and a facilitator's manual and PowerPoint presentation on prevention for positives that quickly updates healthcare staff on this very important topic.
Promising and Best Practices in HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care for West and Central Africa
JANUARY 2008 — Available in French and English, this publication describes selected promising and best practices in behavior change communication, voluntary counseling and testing, reduction of sexually transmitted infections, prevention of mother-to-child transmission, care and treatment, advocacy for policy change, and community financing models for combating HIV/AIDS.
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Clinical Facility and Services Assessment Field Guide: QA/QI
OCTOBER 2007 — This field guide is intended to be used by FHI staff and partner organizations responsible for ensuring quality clinical services, both facility based (e.g., STI services) and non-facility based (e.g., home-based care services). It provides general information on how to organize, implement and follow up on Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement (QA/QI) clinical facility and service assessments.
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Health Facility Tools to Assess Preparedness for HIV Services Delivery, Including Antiretroviral Therapy
OCTOBER 2007 — To introduce HIV-related services in health and community facilities, it is essential that a rapid and comprehensive process of appraisal and implementation planning occur for each site. This process includes taking steps to ensure that the proper contacts are made, accurate data are gathered and used for program planning, and comprehensive program planning occurs. This manual outlines the rapid appraisal and implementation planning framework used to plan service delivery in sites supported by Family Health International and provides tools to be used along the way.
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Adherence Support Worker Training Materials
JUNE 2007 — This two-week adherence support worker course teaches community volunteers to work alongside nurses and doctors. ASWs learn to interact with patients in clinical, community, and home settings where they provide HIV education, treatment support, and ART adherence counseling. They also are trained to participate in the referral network and to reengage treatment defaulters. The material includes technical information and techniques for relationship building and counseling. Modules include didactic sessions, role plays, and group exercises. A CD with PowerPoint presentations is included in the facilitator's guide.
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The Handbook on Pædiatric AIDS in Africa
OCTOBER 2006 — Revised this year, The Handbook on Pædiatric AIDS in Africa is an accessible, practical tool for health professionals in developing countries who care for HIV-infected and -affected children. Written by the African Network for the Care of Children Affected by AIDS (ANECCA), the handbook was produced by FHI and is available in French and English.
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Standard Operating Procedures for ART Released
AUGUST 2005 — Standard Operating Procedures for Antiretroviral Therapy is a guide for clinicians delivering antiretroviral therapy (ART) services at health facilities in low-resource settings. The report includes protocols for providing ART to adults and adolescents, adherence counseling and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP). The online version includes customizable Microsoft Word documents for adapting the report to individual country needs.
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Voluntary Counseling and Testing Toolkit
FEBRUARY 2005 — The VCT Toolkit is a collection of resources for developing, expanding and maintaining VCT services in resource-constrained countries. The toolkit is intended for governments, development partners and public- and private-sector organizations that establish HIV counseling and testing programs and services.
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HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment: A Clinical Course for People Caring for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS
DECEMBER 2004 — These Care and Treatment publications present knowledge and skills for delivering and organizing clinical care and treatment services for people living with HIV/AIDS. The guide offers materials for facilitators to train volunteers as well as materials for participants. Microsoft PowerPoint presentations are also available.
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Monitoring HIV/AIDS Programs: A Facilitator's Training Guide
NOVEMBER 2004 —This training resource is designed to build skills for conducting quality monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities. The course is anchored by three core modules: Introduction to M&E; Collecting, Analyzing and Using Monitoring Data; and Developing an M&E Work Plan. The course features seven additional modules designed for specific contexts, such as home-based care programs, voluntary counseling and testing programs, programs for orphans, and clinical care activities. Each module includes both a facilitator's guide and a participant's guide.
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Self-Care Series for the PLHA Audience
FEBRUARY 2004 — IMPACT/Cambodia and FHI's Asia-Pacific Division have produced a Self-Care series for people living with HIV/AIDS that is truly unique. The series consists of four books written and illustrated specifically for the PLHA audience. These books are a valuable addition to any country's program materials.
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Catholic AIDS Action Manuals Offer Counseling Guidance for Children and Others Affected by HIV/AIDS
MARCH 2005 — Community-based Couselling for People Affected by HIV/AIDS and Building Resilience in Children Affected by HIV/AIDS were developed by Catholic AIDS Action, a longtime IMPACT Project partner in Namibia. The two manuals concern children affected by HIV and counseling for people affected by HIV.
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Establishing Referral Networks for Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Care
JANUARY 2005 — The report Establishing Referral Networks for Comprehensive HIV Care in Low-Resource Settings offers guidance to help organizations and communities in low-resource settings create effective referral networks to provide comprehensive prevention, care, treatment and support for persons living with HIV/AIDS and their families and caregivers. The report's companion document, Tools for Establishing Referral Networks for Comprehensive HIV Care in Low-Resource Settings, provides a collection of premade referral forms and registers to help maintain accuracy, efficiency and consistency. These sample tools can be adapted for different settings.
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Healthy Living: A Counseling Guide on ART
JUNE 2004 — Healthy Living: A Counseling Guide for Health Workers on Opportunistic Infections, Antiretroviral Therapy (ART), Management of ART Side Effects is a new collection of low-literacy guides and brochures covering ART and opportunistic infections, with both English and Swahili versions. The collection includes flip charts, booklets and brochures to help healthcare workers educate patients by using simple expressions and pictures.
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Behavioral Surveillance Surveys: Guidelines for Repeated Behavioral Surveys in Populations at Risk of HIV
MAY 2003 — The report Behavioral Surveillance Surveys: Guidelines for Repeated Behavioral Surveys in Populations at Risk of HIV is a 350-page resource for assessing the extent of the HIV epidemic in particular regions or countries and among particular populations.
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FHI/UNAIDS Best Practices in HIV/AIDS Prevention Collection
MAY 2003 — Recognizing the vital role of prevention, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and Family Health International (FHI) published the FHIl/UNAIDS Best Practices in HIV/AIDS Prevention Collection. Encompassing a broad body of knowledge and expertise, this book is centered on HIV/AIDS prevention in the non-industrialized world.
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Workplace HIV/AIDS Programs: An Action Guide For Managers
MAY 2003 — The guidebook Workplace HIV/AIDS Programs: An Action Guide for Managers provides practical steps for developing and implementing workplace prevention and care programs that will serve both employees and managers. The guide is designed for use by companies' human resources managers, medical officers and union representatives.
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HIV/AIDS and the Public Sector Workforce: An Action Guide
HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care and Support Across Faith-based Communities: An Annotated Bibliography of Resources
MAY 2003 — This annotated bibliography lists, describes and reviews resources that have proven useful to faith-based organizations (FBOs) addressing the HIV crisis in Africa. The information should help each reader identify the right materials to meet his or her community's needs and then to obtain those materials from the appropriate organization.
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HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care in Resource-Constrained Settings
MAY 2003 — The HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care in Resource-Constrained Settings: A Handbook for the Design and Management of Programs offers state of the art knowledge on designing and managing HIV/AIDS programs. The handbook is intended to be used by program mangers, technical and programmatic field staff, the staffs of donor and international partner agencies, health care providers, and field researchers.
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Strategies for an Expanded and Comprehensive Response (ECR) to a National HIV/AIDS Epidemic
APRIL 2003 — The ECR handbook provides practical tools, strategies and ideas for designing and implementing expanded and comprehensive HIV/AIDS programs. By building on the lessons learned from existing programs, it can help users design more comprehensive programs, identify strengths and areas for improvement, and determine opportunities for expansion.
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Uniformed Services HIV/AIDS Peer Leadership Guide
JULY 2001 — The Uniformed Services HIV/AIDS Peer Leadership Guide is a manual for developing HIV/AIDS programs for uniformed services groups around the world. The guide is divided into four sections, offering practical advice, functional examples and exercise templates for developing programs. Because there are some behaviors and lifestyles common to almost all uniformed services in all countries, Uniformed Services is designed to be adapted to individual country needs.
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