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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

Published
18 January 2012
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Malnutrition
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.

Published
03 January 2012
From
Key Correspondents
Malnutrition
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.

Published
22 December 2011
From
Washington Post
Malnutrition
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. 

Published
20 October 2011
From
IRIN Plus News
Starting treatment
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

Published
11 October 2011
By
Michael Carter
Malnutrition
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).

Published
28 July 2011
From
IRIN Plus News
Child developmental issues
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

Published
11 April 2011
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Malnutrition
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.

Published
07 April 2011
From
Reuters AlertNet
Infant feeding
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

Published
29 March 2011
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Malnutrition
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.

Published
31 January 2011
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