Catholic Relief Services Publications: HIV and AIDS
Bridges of Hope Socioeconomic Reintegration Project: Report of a Follow-Up Survey with Clients Living with HIV and AIDS Natalie Kruse-Levy, Shannon Senefeld, Aum Sitha, Arturo Ang February 2007
Maryknoll started the Bridges of Hope project in 2004 with the purpose of assisting people living with HIV who had been marginalized due to illness to socially and economically reintegrate into society after regaining their health on anti-retroviral therapy. Bridges provides group and family counseling, basic training for managing a small business, apprenticeships, job placements, vocational training, small grants, health education, reconciliation with estranged families and other services required for clients to transition from being dependent upon project assistance to supporting themselves. With a view to improve the services provided by the Bridges project, a follow-up survey was carried out in October-November 2006 to understand how bridged clients were medically, economically and socially faring after returning to unassisted living. No existing baseline data was available for the surveyed clients.
Language: English
CRS SUCCESS: Palliative Care Nutritional Supplementation Targeted Evaluation Kari Egge, James Campbell, Shannon Senefeld, Susan Strasser, and Linda Lovick July 2006
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Zambia, with financial support from the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through USAID and CRS, and in partnership with the Catholic Dioceses of Solwezi, Mongu, and Monze, conducted a targeted evaluation to investigate the impact of nutritional supplements on HIV positive home based care (HBC) clients not taking ARVs that met the criteria for targeted nutritional supplementation from April – October 2005.
Language: English
A Call to Compassion and Responsibility: A Response to the HIV/AIDS Crisis. National Conference of Catholic Bishops. 1989
In this document five calls will be issued in reference to people with AIDS: to compassion, to integrity, to responsibility, to social justice, and to prayer and conversion. For: "The joys and the hopes, the griefs and the anxieties of the people of this age, especially those who are poor or in any way afflicted, these too are the joys and the hopes, the griefs and the anxieties of the followers of Christ."
Language: English
Hope & Healing: A Facilitator’s Manual for CRS Employees and Partners on HIV/AIDS. CRS/PQSD. 2001
This manual contains a sequence of learning activities that a skilled facilitator can use with CRS employees and partners in a workshop setting. The aim is to help workshop participants to explore their own personal attitudes, beliefs and values around HIV and AIDS. The manual is designed for use in Sub-Saharan Africa, but can be adapted for CRS staff and partners in other regions. Eight themes are included in the manual and each theme has two to ten associated learning tasks. This manual incorporates effective, participatory adult learning principles and practices. These include dialogue, problem-posing, respect and creation of a safe learning environment.
Language: English Spanish French
Nutrition and Food Security For People Living with HIV and AIDS
This paper applies the Integral Human Development (IHD) framework to nutrition and food security for people living with HIV and AIDS. In addition, several programming options and best practices with nutrition and food security for this target group are highlighted.
Language: English
Promising Practices
CRS programs from around the world are highlighted in this document. This compilation is intended to share lessons learned and promising practices within integrated HIV&AIDS projects among CRS country programs and partners.
Language: English
National Plan of Action for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children: Child-Friendly Version - April 2006
One objective of Zimbabwe’s National Plan of Action (NPA) for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children is to increase children’s participation in the issues that concern them. CRS/Zimbabwe, Save the Children Norway in Zimbabwe, and the Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare realized that in order for children to meaningfully participate in implementing the NPA they first needed to understand the policy. After extensive consultations with children, the three groups developed this child-friendly version of the NPA. It uses straightforward language, appealing graphics and creative formatting to make the document easy for children to understand and share. CRS/Zimbabwe is helping distribute the Child-Friendly NPA to children across the country.
Language: English
