[pronut-hiv] Nutrition of PLWHA (6)

["Elvira Beracochea" <eberacochea@basics.org>]

Nutrition of PLWHA (6)
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I think you found a crucial barrier to improving the nutrition of PLWHA. We encountered the same problem in Child Survival Programs, i.e. the poor knowledge of the caregivers. Most of the child mortality was before the kids reached the health facilities due to lack of knowledge of danger signs and care seeking practices. 

At BASICS, a USAID-funded global project to advance the state of the art in child survival, we have used various community-based approaches to increase the "knowledge base" and reach caregivers and improve children's nutrition in general, not for HIV/AIDS. These approaches ranged from behavior change and communication programs such as a radio soap opera in Honduras and El Salvador; trained community volunteers that conduct home visits, linkages with community-based organizations to using the positive deviant model, the PD hearth. I was wondering whether we could extrapolate from those successful program and for instance, if there are positive deviants among PLWHA and what they do. What do you think? 

Elvira Beracochea MD, MPH 

Elvira Beracochea
Country Program Officer
Drug and Supplies Coordinator
BASICS II
1600 Wilson Blvd
Suite 300
Arlington VA 22209
(703) 312 6896
eberacochea@basics.org 
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 Dr Lilian Wambua wrote:

You are so right. If the information base is inadequate at the grass root,
the rest is intellectual exercise!!!



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