Nutrition

Nutrition features

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  Having a happy, healthy, African new year

  Christmas is traditionally a time of overeating, and New Year a time to think about healthy eating! HTU asked Nutrition Volunteer Tom Dunn and Public Health Nutritionist Anna...

  From:HIV treatment update

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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...

  From:HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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  Food and nutrition at the 2009 HIV Implementers' Meeting

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

  From:HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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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....

  From:HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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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....

  From:HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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  HATIP #50, 1st July 2005

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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....

  From:HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

Nutrition news from aidsmap

• Vitamin D supplements benefit bone metabolism of younger patients taking tenofovir

  Vitamin D supplementation is associated with an improvement in a key marker of bone health in HIV-positive young adults treated with tenofovir, US research published in Clinical Infectious Diseases shows. Treatment with vitamin D3 led to a significant fall in parathyroid ...

  25 January 2012 | Michael Carter

• Limited evidence that vitamin D supplements of any benefit for patients with HIV

  There is only scant evidence that vitamin D supplementation is of benefit for patients with HIV, according to UK investigators writing in the January 28th  edition of AIDS. The authors conducted a systematic review of studies examining the prevalence ...

  10 January 2012 | Michael Carter

• ART improves impact of therapeutic feeding in malnourished infants with HIV

  HIV-infected malnourished children in urban Malawi who got ART within three weeks of therapeutic feeding were more likely to recover nutritionally (86% compared to 60%, p<0.01) and gained over twice as much weight (3.6 compared to 1.6 g/k/day; p=0.02) than ...

  04 January 2012 | Carole Leach-Lemens

• US research shows importance of healthy vitamin D levels for patients with HIV

  New US research has shown that vitamin D levels are associated with a number of important outcomes and markers in patients taking HIV treatment. Published in the online edition of Antiviral Therapy, investigators found that vitamin D was associated ...

  26 May 2011 | Michael Carter

• Diet, exercise and cancer screening boosted by 'highly feasible' intervention targeted at HIV serodiscordant couples

  Fruit and vegetable consumption and exercise frequency can be increased by participation in a health promotion intervention designed to reduce the risk of chronic diseases, investigators report in the April 25th edition of the Archives of Internal Medicine. The research involved ...

  11 May 2011 | Michael Carter

• Low vitamin D associated with early sign of cardiovascular disease in patients with HIV

  Low levels of vitamin D are associated with an important early-warning sign of cardiovascular disease in patients with HIV, US investigators report in the April 1st edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases. The research showed a significant relationship between vitamin D ...

  05 April 2011 | Michael Carter

• 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

• Treatment interruptions explain higher HIV viral load in patients with depression and those who use stimulants

  Inconsistent use of antiretroviral therapy is the main explanation for the higher viral loads observed in HIV-positive patients who are depressed or who use stimulant drugs, US investigators report in the February 1st edition of the Journal of Acquired ...

  08 February 2011 | Michael Carter

• Food assistance improved ART adherence, retention in care, in Haiti

  Providing food assistance to people living with HIV in a comprehensive HIV programme in Haiti, where the quality and quantity of food is poor, improved adherence and weight gain as well as clinic attendance, Louise C Ivers and colleagues ...

  08 November 2010 | Carole Leach-Lemens

• Vitamin A supplements linked to high HIV levels in breast milk

  Research in Tanzania shows that women with HIV who took vitamin A and beta-carotene (VA/BC) supplements had more HIV in their breast milk than those who did not, while women who took multivitamins were more likely to develop mastitis. ...

  31 August 2010 | Kelly Safreed-Harmon

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Nutrition news selected from other sources

• In South LA, 'food deserts' impact health of HIV/AIDS patients

  For people living with HIV or AIDS, nutrition is a key component of any treatment plan. But living in neighborhoods where healthy food options are few and far between — with an outsize presence of fast-food outlets — eating a proper diet can prove difficult.

  08 May 2012 | Los Angeles Wave Newspapers

• Diet Improves Lipids in HAART-Treated Patients

  A dietary intervention introduced before human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients begin highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) prevents dyslipidemia that is typically associated with treatment, research published in the March 13, 2012 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology shows.

  07 March 2012 | Medscape (requires free registration)

• Vitamin D May Improve Bone Health in Those Taking Anti-HIV Drug

  A new NIH-funded study indicates that taking Vitamin D supplements can help prevent hormonal changes that lead to bone loss amongst patients taking tenofovir (Viread) for the long-term treatment of HIV.

  12 January 2012 | National Institutes of Health press release

• MP moots HIV feeding scheme

  National Council Vice Chairperson, Margaret Mensah–Williams, has called on the government to establish a feeding programme exclusively for Persons Living with HIV/Aids (PLWHA) that should be similar to school-feeding programmes.

  05 December 2011 | New Era

• 51% of HIV-affected households in Cambodia live in hunger: UNDP

  Some 51 percent of the HIV/AIDS- infected households in Cambodia are living in hunger, said a new UN survey released here on Thursday, calling for more attention to the need for HIV-sensitive social protection mechanisms.

  25 August 2011 | Xinhuanet.com

• Ruth Brinker, Project Open Hand founder, dies

  Ruth Brinker was a noted AIDS activist who founded Project Open Hand, which serves meals to seniors and those with AIDS and other diseases.

  18 August 2011 | San Francisco Chronicle

• Type 2 diabetes in newly diagnosed 'can be reversed'

  An extreme eight-week diet of 600 calories a day can reverse Type 2 diabetes in people newly diagnosed with the disease, says a Diabetologia study.

  24 June 2011 | BBC

• Low Vitamin D Levels Are Common in Both HIV-Positive and HIV-Negative Women

  Though nearly two thirds of women in a large study had low vitamin D levels—a risk factor for bone and heart problems—the HIV-positive women were actually slightly less likely than HIV-negative women to be vitamin D deficient. 

  14 April 2011 | AIDSMeds

• HIV charity Food Chain wins £1m boost; new projects aim to reduce social isolation

  London HIV charity Food Chain has received a £1 million sponsorship from the Elton John AIDS Foundation. The charity hopes to use the £1 million donation to widen its services and consult dietitians to cater to individual cases. It also plans to set up communal eating groups for isolated people and hold nutrition and cooking training.

  18 January 2011 | Pink News

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