Action: Toolkit on scaling up the continuum of care for PLHIV
Kimberly Green, Family Health International
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"CONTINUUM OF CARE IS A SYSTEM OF LINKED SERVICES IN A GIVEN LOCALITY WHICH
TOGETHER ADD UP TO A COMPREHENSIVE PACKAGE OF CARE"

Family Health International (FHI) is pleased to announce the launching of
"Scaling Up the Continuum of Care for People Living with HIV in Asia and the
Pacific: A Toolkit for Implementers."

The Toolkit provides HIV care service implementers and providers with
step-by-step guidance on how to establish a local or national Continuum of Care
program. It is also a useful tool for advocating for more strategic and
participatory approaches to organizing HIV care services.

The Continuum of Care is a system of linked services in a given locality which
together add up to a comprehensive package of care. It promotes functional
referral and coordination linkages between services provided in the home,
community and institution improving access of PLHIV and families to the services
they need. This approach to organizing HIV care services has proven very
successful in localities across Asia and the Pacific. Some countries, such as
Cambodia, have taken this approach nation-wide resulting in high service
coverage and low rates of loss to follow-up.

The Toolkit includes three sets of resources:
1) The Continuum of Care Toolkit,
2) A companion checklist which can be used to guide the implementation of the
Continuum of Care and
3) A CD-Rom with resources to aid the implementation of a CoC each step of the
way.

The Toolkit is the result of contributions from many organizations,
governments and individuals in the Asia-Pacific region including Family Health
International's Asia Pacific Regional Office, World Health Organization, Thai
Network for People Living with HIV/AIDS,
Constella-Futures Group and local and national government representatives in
Cambodia, China, Nepal, Thailand and Viet Nam.

Electronic copies of the Toolkit can be found at:
http://www.fhi.org/en/HIVAIDS/country/Asia/index.htm

A limited number of hard copies are available through the FHI APRO office. To
place an order please contact Ms. Sunee Sarif at: Sunee@...

Kimberly Green
Family Health International (FHI)
Email: Kim@...