HIV remains a critical global health challenge, claiming millions of lives each year. As a key cosponsor of UNAIDS, Â鶹ÊÓƵ plays a pivotal role in the fight, ensuring that people living with HIV (PLHIV) who face malnutrition and food insecurity get the nutritious diets they need for treatment adherence and to live healthy, productive lives.
This Strategy outlines Â鶹ÊÓƵ's commitment to achieving a future where PLHIV are food secure, economically empowered, and have equal access to the nutrition they need to thrive.
The evaluation has covered activities related to HIV-sensitive social protection conducted by the UNAIDS Secretariat and Cosponsors (referred to as the Joint Programme) from 2018 to December 2022, with a focus on nine countries selected for their broadness and diversity of the UNAIDS geographic scope.
Working closely with fellow UN agencies, UNAIDS and UNFPA Evaluation Offices have jointly managed an independent evaluation of the work of the UN Joint Programme on AIDS on efficient and sustainable financing.
The strategic evaluation of Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s work on nutrition and addressing HIV and AIDS policies serves the dual purpose of accountability and learning, particularly the latter.
This manual, commissioned by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), helps health care workers, social workers and people living with HIV (PLHIV) to understand the importance of a healthy and balanced diet, combined with physical activity, in improving the quality of life, the health status of patients and the effectiveness of antiretroviral treatment.
The brief outlines evidence underscoring the critical role of food security in a global AIDS response. Food security has been proven yet again to reduce HIV risk and negative coping strategies, especially among adolescent girls and young women.
The evaluation was commissioned by the independent Office of Evaluation to provide evaluative evidence for accountability and learning to inform the design of the next Â鶹ÊÓƵ CSP in Zimbabwe. It covers Â鶹ÊÓƵ activities implemented between 2015 and 2020 to assess continuity from the previous programme cycle, the extent to which the CSP introduced strategic shifts and implications for such shifts for performance and results.
To support data collection on malnutrition and food insecurity among PLHIV in Tunisia, Â鶹ÊÓƵ and the Tunisian government conducted a district-level assessment of food and nutrition security among PLHIV.
Undernutrition costs Mozambique 10.9% of GDP each year, equivalent to USD 1.7 billion. As such, undernutrition is a cause as well as a result of poverty. Almost half the population lives in poverty, and around one-third in absolute poverty. The food insecurity of these households is exacerbated by Mozambique's high susceptibility to climate shocks such as cyclones, floods and droughts. Mozambique is also one of only eight countries with an HIV prevalence of over 10%. Malnutrition among people living with HIV (PLHIV) is a serious public health concern. Â鶹ÊÓƵ Mozambique¡¯s Nutrition and HIV programmes follow the Humanitarian-Development Nexus, aiming to serve communities in emergencies, assist in their recovery, and help build robust resilience. To learn more, please refer to the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Mozambique Nutrition and HIV Unit ¨C Current and future programming document.
How do you reach beneficiaries with food and services in the midst of a global pandemic? This brief describes how Â鶹ÊÓƵ Mozambique has adapted its nutrition and HIV programmes to stop the spread of COVID-19.
The evaluation covers the Myanmar Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation 200299 "Supporting Transition by Reducing Food Insecurity and Undernutrition among the Most Vulnerable". It was intended for both accountability and learning and focuses on assessing: i) the appropriateness and coherence of the operation; ii) its results; and iii) the factors explaining the results.
