[pronut-hiv] Rwandan Guideline on Nutrition and HIV/AIDS, development process

["Kayumba, Josephine (FAORW)" <Josephine.Kayumba@fao.org>]

Rwandan guideline on Nutrition and HIV/AIDS, development process 

This process was presented in the Central Africa Nutrition Focal Point
Network Meeting held on 20-22 July 05 in Brazzaville.

After the recognition of the importance of nutrition in the management of
HIV/AIDS for longevity and improved quality of life for PLWHA, Rwanda decides to elaborate a guide on Nutrition and HIV/AIDS. The guide presents the actions that service providers need to take in order to provide quality care and support for PLWHA at various contacts such as voluntary counselling and test, antenatal care, postnatal care, community visit, home based care, and education.

Development process:

Consensus and advocacy for the guideline development ; Set up a working group for this development ; Reviewing available information on Nutrition, on HIV/AIDS and any related subject (including guidelines from other countries e.g Ugandan and South African Guide, FAO guide) - Development based on evidence and nationally appropriate actions-  ; Consultative and integrated process: wide consultations in the drafting of the guidelines (inputs from key stakeholders); Field pre-testing of 1st (complete) draft with service providers (feedback incorporated into draft) ;Resulting (2nd) draft presented to the "senior management team" of the Ministry of Health (feed back being incorporated) ; get final document.

The key challenges were : Integration and expansion of nutrition through
treatment and care services for PLWHA (incorporating nutrition care and support services) ; Capacity creation, retaining and utilization of health professionals ( need for senior level nutritionist in government side to advocate for nutrition , incorporate nutrition in the pre- service curriculum for health professionals.

The way forward: production and launch of the guideline, train service
providers on the   

guideline; implementation and scale-up; monitor implementation process. 


Regards.

Josephine

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Josephine Kayumba 

Program Assistant/Nutrition 
FAO, Rwanda 
Tel : +250 583719/20 
Mob : +250 08519361 
Email : Josephine.kayumba@fao.org

www.fao.org <http://www.fao.org/> 

 ----- ProNut-HIV wrote:

Central Africa Nutrition Focal Point Network Meeting

The second meeting of the Central Africa Nutrition Focal Point Network was
held on July 20-22, 2005 in Brazzaville, Congo. The participants in the
meeting were from Burundi, Cameroon, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic
of Congo, Chad, and Rwanda. The three-day meeting was comprised of one day
update on the status of the  network and nutrition activities in the Central
Africa region, one day technical update on nutrition and HIV/AIDS, and the
last day was dedicated to the review of the progress of the network and
discussions on the way forward. 

 Countries presented on their  nutrition/food security and HIV/AIDS
activities and programs. ProNut-HIV will share the summary of these
presentations as they are forwarded by countries