TASO factsheet on Nutrition

1. NUTRITION, CARE AND SUPPORT
Providing a comprehensive care package for People Living with HIV (PLHIV) to ensure optimal
health and survival is an important aspect of HIV care.
PROVIDING
for safe HIV treatment
NUTRITION

2. TASO is implementing a Partnership for HIV-free Survival (PHFS) initiative. The initiative aims at reducing mother to child HIV transmission below 5% as well as ensuring child survival beyond the first 1000 days of life. This initiative has three components:
• Option B+
• Nutrition Assessment Counseling and Support (NACS)
• Quality Improvement
The three components are part of the strategies TASO has put in place to ensure that HIV infected individuals in Uganda live a meaningful and productive life.
The PHFS initiative has so far been rolled out in Public Health Facilities in the three districts of Tororo, Manafwa and Jinja in Eastern Uganda where TASO has mandate.
TASO is currently hosting a Makerere School of Public Health – CDC Public Health Nutritionist to support NACS programme which is operating under the following objectives:
• To create demand for Nutritional Assessment Counseling and Support within Maternal and Child health service points in the target districts
• To strengthen the capacity of Public Health Facilities in the target districts and TASO facilities to integrate Nutrition into PMTCT services through enhancing NACS implementation.
• To integrate quality improvement measures for nutrition integration into PMTCT.
• Strengthen monitoring and evaluation for NACS within PMTCT and Maternal, Neonatal Child Health setting.
The AIDS Support Organisation
Uganda
Old Mulago Hospital Complex
P.O. Box 10443
Kampala, Uganda
+256 414 532 580
mail@tasouganda.org
www.tasouganda.org
Malnutrition remains a critical factor determining the quality of life lived by those living with HIV in Sub Saharan Africa. The HIV infections together with the ARVs they take on a daily basis may have serious implications on their nutritional status. Providing a comprehensive care package for the HIV infected to ensure optimal health and survival is therefore an important aspect of HIV care.
NUTRITION, CARE AND SUPPORT
INFORMING
about nutrition
COMMUNITIES