Home-Based Care Alliance

Description

Home-based caregivers provide a breadth of services from palliative care, treatment for opportunistic infections to nutritional counseling, psychosocial counseling and providing social support to affected family members and friends. Caregivers  initiate locally appropriate and culturally sensitive stigma-reduction and awareness raising campaigns work to reduce stigma against people living with AIDS.

Countries involved

Benin, Cambodia, Cameroon, Ghana, Honduras, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Starting / expected end date

January 2005 -

Activity

Capacity building

Donor / source of finance

New Field Foundation

Contact person

Shannon Hayes