As the world’s largest humanitarian agency, WFP saves lives in emergencies and uses food assistance to build pathways to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change. WFP leverages its extensive operational and logistical footprint in emergencies to reach the people who are most vulnerable and who are left furthest behind. This includes working with and through partners to ensure that people living with, at risk of and affected by HIV have access to essential food and nutrition support.
The strategic evaluation of WFP’s HIV and AIDS in 2023 affirmed that HIV continues to be a highly relevant issue for WFP in delivering on its mandate of reaching the most vulnerable people and leaving no one behind.
In 2022-2023, WFP prioritized support for people living with HIV to meet their urgent food and nutrition needs, have better nutrition, health and education outcomes, as well as improved livelihoods.
• Provided partnerships and community-led support for inclusion of the most vulnerable. WFP established partnerships with a Ukrainian community-based organization serving people living with HIV, TB patients, the LGBTQI+ community, the Roma community and persons with disabilities. Since the field-level partnership started in 2022, WFP has provided food assistance to over 200000 people living with HIV and/or TB.
• Integrated HIV-affected households in cash operations in Cameroon.
WFP has worked continuously with the Ministry of Public Health to support the identification of and assistance for the most vulnerable HIV-affected households in the South-West, East and Adamawa regions. More than 5200 HIV-affected households (over 23000 people) were integrated into WFP’s cash transfer assistance in those regions.
• Delivered life-saving assistance with commodities on behalf of the Global Fund. WFP provided logistical and supply chain expertise with the storage of medications and other supplies and ensuring final-mile delivery of life-saving commodities. Together with the Global Fund, WFP provided support in six countries in the form of non-food, HIV-, TB-, malaria-, and COVID-related commodities worth a total of US$ 168 million.
• Provided integrated and essential services for mobile and vulnerable populations through road-side wellness project in Mozambique. This road-side wellness centre (also called the “blue clinic” ) served an average 50–99 clients per day, supporting more than 21000 people. It provided integrated HIV testing and counselling, antiretroviral therapy, and screening for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), COVID-19, cervical cancer and malnutrition
