Home-Based Care

Home-based care at the community level has become central in the provision of HIV/AIDS care. Facilities are often burdened beyond their capacity to care for people living with HIV/AIDS and their families comprehensively. Home-based care is defined as any HIV and related care provided to people in their homes by formal or informal caregivers—including physical, psychosocial, palliative, and spiritual activities, and is mainly provided by community-based organizations.

MEASURE Evaluation reached out to PEPFAR (United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief)—and other donor-supported programs implementing at the community level that support home-based care activities, including LINKAGES—to obtain data collection tools. The tools received are those used by community workers in Nigeria, Ethiopia, South Africa, Uganda, Kenya, Côte d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Botswana to track and monitor community home-based care and services. The most common data elements in these tools were incorporated into the indicators in this collection. Each indicator is accompanied by a definition. These definitions were specifically designed to inform data collection by community programs and agents.

• Number of people who were tested for HIV and received their results
• Number of people living with HIV who know their status
• Number of people currently on antiretroviral therapy
• Number of people testing positive for tuberculosis who adhere to treatment
• Number of people identified to have experienced sexual, physical, or emotional violence
• Number of people reached with individual or small group level community HIV-prevention interventions
• Number of people who were nutritionally assessed and received nutrition counselling and therapeutic or supplementary food
• Number of people infected or affected by HIV provided with spiritual or psychosocial support services
• Number of people provided with referrals for services in the past three months
• Number of people provided with completed referrals for services in the past three months