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OCTOBER 2012
FOOD BY PRESCRIPTION
Measuring the Impact and Cost-Effectiveness of PrescribedFood on Recovery from Malnutrition and HIV DiseaseProgression Among HIV+ Adult Clients in Ethiopia
A partnership study between Tufts University and Save the Children US in Ethiopia for USAID/FBP Kate Sadler, Elizabeth Bontrager, Beatrice Rogers, Jennifer Coates,Shibani Ghosh, Yitbarek Kidane, Devika Suri, and Simone Passarelli
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Sadler, K., E. Bontrager, B. Rogers, J. Coates, S. Ghosh, Y. Kidane, D.Suri, S. Passarelli. (2012). Food by Prescription: Measuring the impactand cost-effectiveness of prescribed food on recovery from malnutritionand HIV disease progression among HIV+ adult clients in Ethiopia.Feinstein International Center, Friedman School of Nutrition Scienceand Policy, Tufts University, Boston, USA.
Acknowledgements
This evaluation was made possible with generous funding from thePresidential Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief/United States Agencyfor International Development (PEPFAR/USAID) under contractnumber 663-C-00-09-00421-00. Financial support was also providedby IrishAid for the production of this report. The authors wouldparticularly like to thank Gideon Cohen, Habtamu Fekadu, AbdulazizAli, Teklehayimanot Meshesha, and Kemal Ali of Save the ChildrenUSA for providing considerable support for data collection throughoutimplementation of this work, as well as for providing valuable feedbackfor evaluation design, data analysis, and presentation. Thanks must alsogo to our partners within the Federal Ministry of Health and RegionalHealth Bureaus, without whom the FBP program implementation andthis evaluation would not be possible.The ideas, opinions, and comments below are entirely the responsibilityof the author(s) and do not necessarily represent or reflect USAID or Irish AID policy.
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The Ethiopia Food by Prescription (FBP) program, implemented by Save the Children US (SC US), USAID/Ethiopia, and the Ethiopian Ministry of Health since 2010, provides therapeutic food along with nutritional assessment and counseling to malnourished HIV+…
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