Workshop on Integration of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene into HIV/AIDS Home-based Care Strategies
ثبت نشده
چکیده
Today, more than 39 million people around the world are living with HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS, 2006). One key strategy in mitigating the effects of this epidemic is the provision of community home-based care (HBC), defined as “care given to an individual in his/her own natural environment by his/her family and supported by skilled social welfare officers and communities to meet not only the physical and health needs, but also the spiritual, material, and psychosocial needs.” (Southern African Regional Community HBC Conference, 2001). The goal of home-based care is “to provide hope through high-quality and appropriate care that helps ill people and families to maintain their independence and achieve the best possible quality of life” (WHO 2002).
منابع مشابه
Assessment of water, sanitation, and hygiene practice and associated factors among people living with HIV/AIDS home based care services in Gondar city, Ethiopia
BACKGROUND People living with HIV/AIDS have substantially greater need for water, sanitation, and hygiene. Encouraging hygiene education for People Living with HIV/AIDS in home based care services and additional support for the provision of water, sanitation, and hygiene services is recommended. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried during 2009 to assess water, sanitation status and hyg...
متن کاملIntegration of water, sanitation and hygiene into HIV programs: Lessons from Malawi
Adequate clean water, improved sanitation infrastructure, and better hygiene may significantly improve health outcomes for people living with HIV (PLHIV) in resource-poor settings. However, few programs effectively integrate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WSH) into home-based care and other HIV services. Catholic Relief Services Malawi, with support from the World Health Organization and the U...
متن کاملWater, sanitation, and hygiene interventions to improve health among people living with HIV/AIDS: a systematic review.
DESIGN People living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) are at increased risk of diarrhoeal disease and enteric infection. This review assesses the effectiveness of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions to prevent disease among PLHIV. METHODS We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, Global Health, The Cochrane Library, Web of Science, LILACS, Africa-wide, IMEMR, IMSEAR, WPRIM, CNKI, and WanFang. We also...
متن کاملWASH into regional and national plans and programs, expanding WASH human resources and advocacy efforts, and strengthening WASH-related collaboration with recipient countries. II. Child/Maternal Health and WASH Summary: Each year millions of children and women
This document describes the positive effects of safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions across a variety of development priorities. This partial list of research findings demonstrates that incorporating WASH into public health, HIV/AIDS, food security / nutrition, education and other programming can make progress toward all of these efforts more successful initially─an...
متن کاملMaking the connections: AIDS and water.
OBJECTIVE Acknowledging AIDS as a crosscutting development issue, a Zambian rural water supply project that provides safe accessible water to rural communities embarked on a new initiative to mainstream AIDS into the water sector. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS The work of providing safe water takes the predominantly male workforce away from their spouses and families, into the rural villages of Za...
متن کامل