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Introduction
| Last updated: 21.03.06 |
This booklet is intended to answer some of the most commonly asked questions about food, nutrition and HIV infection. It outlines how to eat well if you are HIV-positive and the sort of foods you should eat to keep well if you experience changes in your metabolism whilst taking anti-HIV medication. Information on the sort of food you need to eat to maximise absorption of anti-HIV drugs is included. It also gives advice on how to prevent weight loss and food-borne infections.
acknowledgments
This edition edited by Michael Carter.
Seventh edition 2006
NAM is grateful to the funders of this booklet series:
NHS London HIV Consortium, Department of Health, NHS South West London HIV & GUM Commissioning Consortium, Derek Butler Trust and Healthsure Charitable Trust.
Thanks for the assistance of:
Alastair Duncan
Senior Dietitian, St Thomas’s Hospital, London
Claire Moir
Senior Dietitian, Barts and the London NHS Trust, London
Michelle Phillpot,
Senior Specialist Dietitian, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London
Taryn Visser
Senior Dietitian, Barts and the London NHS Trust, London