El Salvador
El Salvador is a small Central American country with fertile mountains and surf-friendly beaches. After years of conflict, its continuing recovery is under threat from a rising HIV/AIDS rate.
IntraHealth works to strengthen the country’s response to HIV/AIDS through USAID’s Capacity Project by:
- Training the faculty of regional health professional schools on preventing HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination
- Improving the access of health providers and universities’ faculty and students to current HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis knowledge and tools through the Internet
- Increasing the capacity of NGOs and faith-based organizations to improve the quality of life for people living with HIV
- Supporting the income-generation activities of self-support networks for people living with HIV
- Supporting the decentralization of HIV care and treatment through health staff performance improvement activities
- Improving supervision and human resource management systems.
Donor/Project: USAID (Capacity Project)
Partners: JHPIEGO, Management Sciences for Health
Selected health statistics for El Salvador (WHO, accessed July 2007):
Life expectancy, in years (m/f): 57, 62
Probability of dying under 5 years of age (per 1000 live births): 27
Adult prevalence of HIV/AIDS: 0.3–1.1%
Maternal mortality, 1998 stats (per 100,000 live births): 120