Malnutrition

Malnutrition features

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  A palliative care perspective on nutritional support

  In many areas of Africa, caring for people with HIV requires dealing with the underlying problems of poverty, food security and lack of adequate, appropriate...

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  Food and nutrition at the 2009 HIV Implementers' Meeting

  Food and nutrition issues covered at the HIV Implementers Meeting....

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  Nutrition in ART programmes

  This issue provides an overview of the effect of nutrition on HIV and vice versa in resource-poor settings and offers practical interventions and advice....

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  HAART and harvest: antiretroviral therapy and nutrition when food is scarce

  Review of nutritonal interventions to support people with HIV in resource-limited settings....

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  HIV and malnutrition

  Review of the effects of protein, calorific and micronutrient deficiencies in people with HIV in resource-limited settings....

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Malnutrition news from aidsmap

• Vigilance over early weight loss on HIV treatment needed, Tanzanian study shows

  Nearly one-third of patients experienced substantial weight loss in the first ten months after starting antiretroviral therapy, research has shown. Leading American and Tanzanian researchers warn that healthcare workers in resource-limited settings need to be on the look out for ...

  18 January 2012 | Carole Leach-Lemens

• Overweight patients have best gains in CD4 cell count twelve months after starting HIV therapy

  Patients who would normally be classified as overweight have the biggest increases in their CD4 cell counts during the first year of HIV therapy, US investigators report in the online edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases. Immune restoration after ...

  11 October 2011 | Michael Carter

• Cotrimoxazole prophylaxis for HIV-positive infants aids growth, reduces anaemia

  Use of daily cotrimoxazole in untreated HIV-infected infants significantly improved growth and reduced anaemia, Andrew Prendergast and colleagues reported in new findings from an observational analysis of the children enrolled in the Children with Antibiotic Prophylaxis (CHAP) trial published in ...

  11 April 2011 | Carole Leach-Lemens

• Watch for malnutrition risk in children with HIV after starting ART

  One in nine HIV-infected children with advanced illness was hospitalised with severe malnutrition within 12 weeks of starting antiretroviral and these children had a 15-fold increased risk of dying within the first six months compared to those children not hospitalised, ...

  29 March 2011 | Carole Leach-Lemens

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Malnutrition news selected from other sources

• Ugandan HIV/AIDS patients grapple with poor nutrition

  Mr. Paul Nabende, 62, has been HIV positive since 2006. Although fit and strong between 2007-2009 and able to look for food and money for himself and his children, he has now weakened so much that he can’t work or afford to feed himself and his family.

  03 January 2012 | Key Correspondents

• Kenya families facing HIV and high food prices make tough choices on who gets fed

  Rising food prices are taking a toll in East Africa on low-income people who have the virus that causes AIDS. An expert on HIV/AIDS for the World Food Program says some HIV patients are refusing to take their medicine.

  22 December 2011 | Washington Post

• ZIMBABWE: Food voucher scheme benefits HIV-positive people

  Vulnerable people living with HIV in Zimbabwe are benefiting from an electronic voucher scheme being used to fight malnutrition among people on antiretroviral (ARV) therapy and their families by providing them with nutritious food. 

  20 October 2011 | IRIN Plus News

• KENYA: Weak HIV-positive people struggle to access food aid

  NAIROBI, 23 August 2011 (PlusNews) - Every morning, Julia Aukot walks 17km to eastern Kenya's Isiolo town in search of work so she can feed her six children and ailing husband; the journey is punishing, but as her family's sole breadwinner, she has no choice.

  23 August 2011 | PlusNews

• SWAZILAND: Desperate HIV-positive people eat cow dung to sustain treatment

  Organizations fighting HIV/AIDS in Swaziland were at first incredulous at reports that hundreds of impoverished HIV-positive rural residents were eating cow dung to give their stomachs something to digest before taking their antiretrovirals (ARVs).

  28 July 2011 | IRIN Plus News

• Climate shifts take health toll on South Africa's HIV infected

  Since HIV/AIDS left her husband bedridden and weak, the burden of putting food on the table has fallen solely on Thombizodwa Maseko's shoulders.

  07 April 2011 | Reuters AlertNet

• Zimbabwe: NGOs Leave the HIV Positive in a Lurch

  "We have been distributing food to HIV+ people in many districts of the country and since October last year we have been trimming down the number of recipients," an official from Christian Care said.

  31 January 2011 | All Africa

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