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Better food seen as key in AIDS treatment

Inadequate access to nutritious food is associated with increased hospitalizations and emergency room visits among HIV-positive individuals, and ensuring that patients have enough to eat may need to be a priority for the doctors and nurses who treat them, the San Francisco Chronicle says. In a paper released Wednesday, the scientists reported that 56 percent of HIV-positive patients who are homeless or living in substandard housing are also food insecure, which is defined as a regular inability to obtain enough healthy food. The researchers looked at 347 HIV patients, all of whom live in San Francisco.

Published
22 August 2012
From
San Francisco Chronicle
Malnutrition
Uganda: Food insecurity decreases after starting ART

Food insecurity significantly decreased over time, and nutritional status improved, in adults starting antiretroviral treatment (ART) in Uganda, researchers report in the advance online edition

Published
06 July 2012
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Bone problems
High Dose Vitamin D Prevents Fractures

High doses of vitamin D prevent fractures in older people – as long as they take the substance regularly.

Published
05 July 2012
From
Medical News Today
Nutrition
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.

Published
08 May 2012
From
Los Angeles Wave Newspapers
Nutrition
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.

Published
07 March 2012
From
Medscape (requires free registration)
Bone problems
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

Published
25 January 2012
By
Michael Carter
Bone problems
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.

Published
12 January 2012
From
National Institutes of Health press release
Side-effects
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

Published
10 January 2012
By
Michael Carter
HIV treatment in children
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

Published
04 January 2012
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
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.

Published
25 August 2011
From
Xinhuanet.com
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