| Coordination |
- Determine coordination structures, including the presence of a Health Cluster.
- Identify and list partners (including local government).
- Establish network of resource persons.
- Raise funds.
- Prepare contingency plans.
- Include HIV/AIDS in humanitarian action plans and train relief workers accordingly.
|
- Coordinate response through the Health Cluster, if present in-country. If not, establish coordination mechanism.
|
- Continue fundraising.
- Strengthen networks.
- Enhance information sharing.
- Build human capacity.
- Link emergency to development HIV action.
- Work with authorities.
- Assist government and non-state entities to promote and protect human rights.
|
| Assessment and monitoring |
- Conduct capacity and situation analysis.
- Develop indicators and tools, or use existing tools as appropriate (i.e. MISP, Health Cluster’s IRA and HeRAMs tools).
- Involve local institutions and beneficiaries.
|
|
|
- Set up and manage a shared database.
|
- Monitor and evaluate all programmes.
- Assess data on prevalence, knowledge, attitudes and practice, and impact of HIV/AIDS.
|
|
|
- Draw lessons from evaluations.
|
| Protection |
- Review existing protection laws and policies.
- Promote human rights and best practices.
- Ensure that humanitarian activities minimise the risk of sexual violence and exploitation, and HIV-related discrimination.
- Train uniformed forces and humanitarian workers on HIV/AIDS and sexual violence.
|
- Prevent and respond to sexual violence and exploitation.
|
- Involve authorities to reduce HIV-related discrimination.
|
- Protect orphans and separated children.
|
- Expand prevention and response to sexual violence and exploitation.
- Strengthen protection for orphans, separated children and young people.
|
- Ensure access to condoms for peacekeepers, and military and humanitarian staff.
|
- Institutionalise training for uniformed forces on HIV/AIDS, sexual violence and exploitation, and non-discrimination.
- Put in place HIV-related services for demobilised personnel.
- Strengthen IDP/refugee response.
- Provide (or refer) post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP)
- (Refer also to Chapter 8.5 Health)
|
| Water and sanitation |
- Train staff on HIV/AIDS, sexual violence, gender and non-discrimination.
|
- Include HIV considerations in water/ sanitation planning.
|
- Establish water/sanitation management committees.
- Organise awareness campaigns on hygiene and sanitation, and target people affected by HIV.
|
| Food security and nutrition |
- Undertake contingency planning/preposition supplies.
- Train staff on special needs of HIV/AIDS-affected populations.
- Include information about nutritional care and support of PLWHA in community nutrition education programmes.
- Support food security of HIV/AIDS-affected households.
|
- Target food aid to affected and at-risk households and communities.
- Plan nutrition and food needs for populations with high HIV prevalence.
- Promote appropriate care and feeding practices for PLWHA.
- Support and protect food security of HIV/AIDS-affected and at-risk households and communities.
- Distribute food aid to affected households and communities.
|
- Develop strategies to protect long-term food security of HIV-affected people.
- Develop strategies and target vulnerable groups for agricultural extension programmes.
- Collaborate with community and home-based care programmes to provide nutritional support.
- Assist the government to fulfil its obligation to respect the human right to food.
|
| Shelter and site planning |
- Ensure safety of potential sites.
- Train staff on HIV/AIDS, gender and non-discrimination.
|
- Establish safely designed sites.
|
- Plan the orderly movement of displaced persons.
|
| Health |
- Map current services and practices.
- Plan and stock medical and reproductive health (RH) supplies.
- Adapt/develop protocols.
- Train health personnel.
- Plan quality assurance mechanisms.
- Train staff on the issue of sexual and GBV and the link with HIV/AIDS.
- Determine prevalence of injecting drug use.
- ¨ Develop instruction leaflets on cleaning injecting materials.
- Map and support prevention and care initiatives.
- Train staff and peer educators.
- Train health staff on RH issues linked with emergencies and the use of RH kits.
- Assess current practices in the application of universal precautions.
|
- Ensure access to basic health care for the most vulnerable.
- Ensure a safe blood supply.
- Provide male and female condoms.
- Institute syndromic STI treatment.
- Continue ARV treatment as soon as possible for those already on ARVs
- Ensure Intravenous Drug User (IDU) appropriate care.
- Manage the consequences of sexual violence.
- Ensure safe deliveries.
- Raise awareness of prevention and treatment services for STIs/HIV.
- Ensure adherence to universal precautions.
|
- Forecast longer-term needs: secure regular supplies and ensure appropriate training of the staff.
- Provide palliative care and home-based care.
- Treatment of opportunistic infections and tuberculosis control programmes.
- Provide anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment.
- Ensure safe blood transfusion services.
- Provide family planning services and continue to provide condoms.
- Manage STI, including condoms.
- Provide comprehensive sexual violence programmes.
- Control drug trafficking in camp settings.
- Use peer educators to provide counselling and education on risk reduction strategies.
- Provide voluntary counselling and testing.
- Provide reproductive health services for young people.
- Prevent mother-to-child transmission.
- Enable/monitor/reinforce universal precautions in health care.
|
| Education |
- Determine emergency education options for boys and girls.
- Train teachers on HIV/AIDS, and sexual violence and exploitation.
|
- Ensure children’s access to education.
|
- Educate girls and boys (formal and non-formal).
- Provide life skills-based HIV/AIDS education.
- Monitor and respond to sexual violence and exploitation in educational settings.
|
Behaviour change
communicationand information education
communication |
- Prepare culturally appropriate messages in local languages.
- Prepare a basic Behaviour Change Communication/ Information, Education Communication (BCC/IEC) strategy.
- Involve key beneficiaries.
- Conduct awareness campaigns.
- Store key documents outside potential emergency areas.
|
- Provide information on HIV/AIDS prevention and care.
|
- Scale-up BCC/IEC.
- Monitor and evaluate activities.
|
| HIV/AIDS in theworkplace |
- Review personnel policies regarding the management of People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) who work in humanitarian operations.
- Develop policies when there are none, aimed at minimising the potential for discrimination.
- Stock materials for PEP.
|
- Prevent discrimination by HIV status in staff management.
|
- Build capacity of supporting groups for PLWHA and their families.
- Establish workplace policies to eliminate discrimination against PLWHA.
|
- Provide PEP for humanitarian staff.
|
- Provide PEP for all humanitarian workers on a regular basis.
|
