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Population - HIV/AIDS

Living well with HIV/AIDS. Training of trainers by World Health Organization WHO and Food and Nutrition Programmes Service (ESNP) Food and Nutrition Division (ESN) FAO Rome, 2002 Pages 103 http://www.fao.org/documents/show_cdr.asp?url_file=/DOCREP/005/Y4168E/Y4168E00.HTM This manual provides home care agents and local service providers with practical recommendations for a healthy and well balanced diet for people living with HIV/AIDS. It deals with common complications that people living with HIV/AIDS are experiencing at different stages of infection and helps provide local solutions that emphasize using local food resources and home-based care and support. Meeting immediate food, nutrition and other basic needs is essential if HIV/AIDS-affected households are to live with dignity and security. Providing nutritional care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS is an important part of caring at all stages of the disease. Related links HIV/AIDS website http://www.fao.org/hivaids/index_en.htm Food and Nutrition website http://www.fao.org/es/esn/index_en.stm Related articles Feeding hope: nutrition plays key role in HIV/AIDS care by FAO News Room http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/index.html Geneva/Rome, 25 February 2003 http://www.fao.org/english/newsroom/news/2003/13560-en.html Food is the first medicine for AIDS FAO News Room http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/index.html Rome, 29 November 2002 http://www.fao.org/english/newsroom/news/2002/11580-en.html Contact: William Clay Nutrition Programmes Service (ESNP) Food and Food and Nutrition Division (ESN) FAO Via delle Terme di Caracalla 00100 Rome, Italy william.clay@fao.org

Addressing HIV/AIDS through Agriculture and Natural Resource Sectors: A guide for extension workers. Non-formal education by Socio-economic and Gender Analysis Programme (SEAGA) Gender and Development Service (SDWW) Gender and Population Division (SDW) FAO Rome, 2004 Pages 80 http://www.fao.org/sd/dim_pe1/docs/pe1_050103d1_en.pdf The purpose of this guide is to enable extension workers and development agents to contribute to addressing the rural epidemic through agriculture and natural resource sector initiatives. The agriculture and natural resource sectors present a unique opportunity to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic in predominantly rural economies. Up to 80% of the population in some African countries depends on subsistence agriculture; crops, livestock and other natural resource products are the mainstay of the economy and export earnings; and agriculture, forestry and fisheries provide vital safety nets. In other regions of the world, the sectors still account for the livelihoods of a sizable proportion of the population, ranging from 50 - 60% in Asia to 15 - 30% in Latin America and the Caribbean. The impact of HIV/AIDS erodes the asset base of rural households, depletes their labour force, reduces their range of knowledge and skills, restricts their ability to earn cash from farming and non-farm activities, and undermines their ability to feed themselves and maintain adequate levels of nutrition. It is only recently that the rural dimension of the epidemic has being fully appreciated, as prevalence rates in rural communities gradually rise towards the urban thresholds. Hence extension services, with their unrivalled experience of working to improve nutrition and food security and strengthen rural livelihoods, have a major opportunity to contribute to addressing the rural epidemic. Related links Socio-economic and Gender Analysis Programme (SEAGA) web site http://www.fao.org/sd/seaga/index_en.htm SEAGA publications http://www.fao.org/sd/seaga/main4_en.htm Contact: Ilaria Sisto Gender and Development Service (SDWW) Gender and Population Division (SDW) FAO Via delle Terme di Caracalla 00100 Rome, Italy Ilaria.Sisto@fao.org

Farmers' Life School Manual. Non-formal education by UNDP, FAO and World Education UNDP South East Asia, January 2004 Pages 40 http://www.hiv-development.org/text/publications/FLS%20Manual.pdf This is a tool for facilitators of the Farmers' Life School who have graduated from a Farmers' Field School and a Farmers' Life School, by adult educators or NGOs and community-based organizations with experience in participatory learning and people interested in introducing the Farmers' Life School course into their own programmes. The Farmers' Life School can be used in either community-based programmes or it can be adapted for formal educational settings. The HIV/AIDS pandemic threatens to destroy the fabric of our society. Rural farming communities are particularly threatened and household security is at stake. Recognizing the warning signs in Asia, a joint initiative between the FAO-Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Programme and UNDP South East Asia HIV and Development Programme (UNDP-SEAHIV) resulted in the birth of the Farmers' Life School. It began in 2000 with a bold objective: from the poorest of rural farming communities of South-East Asia comes innovation by the farmers, for the farmers. This manual documents the empowerment process, through which farmers decide for themselves how to build their resilience, including resistance to HIV/AIDS risks. Today, this is a movement that is continuing to spread in other rural communities of Cambodia. This training manual is the outcome of the Farmers' Life School project, which was originally field tested in Cambodia and has generated considerable international interest. This manual was translated from the original developed by the farmers in the Khmer language for training in Cambodia. Therefore, the setting, Cambodia, and the focus of the manual, subsistence rice farmers, are culturally specific. Although some adaptation has been carried out to facilitate use by other countries, the specificity of this manual has been largely maintained. As a tool that has already been field tested, this manual will be useful as a basis for developing other culture-specific tools. In order to be fully accepted and understood, this manual should be adapted with the participation of local farmers. The purpose of publishing this manual is to share the Cambodian farmers' experience, which will stimulate thinking and the design of materials specific to each situation. It is not a ready-made recipe. For each community and country, the key to the success of a Farmers' Life School is to recognize the expertise of farmers and make them aware of their own expertise as valuable capital on which to build their resilience. Related links See the HIV/AIDS website http://www.fao.org/hivaids/ Responding to the orphan crisis (video) http://www.fao.org/hivaids/ Related articles Responding to the orphan crisis Fao News Room http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/index.html FAO Chimoio, Mozambique Agricultural skills necessary for AIDS orphans Fao News Room http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/index.html FAO Rome, 1 December 2004 Contact: Carol Djeddah Population and Development Service (SDWP) Gender and Population Division (SDW) FAO Via delle Terme di Caracalla 00100 Rome, Italy Carol.djeddah@fao.org

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