Evidence Based nutrition interventions for the control of HIV/AIDS

Abstract

HIV/AIDS is having a devastating impact on the livelihoods and food security of many millions in the world, especially in Africa. The position is clearly summarised within the Participants Statement from the WHO Consultation Meeting on Nutrition and HIV/AIDS in Africa held in Durban, April 2005 “HIV/AIDS is affecting more people in eastern and southern Africa than our fragile health systems can treat, demoralising more children than our educational systems can inspire, creating more orphans than communities can care for, wasting families and threatening our food systems. The HIV/AIDs epidemic is increasingly driven by and contributes factors that also create malnutrition – in particular poverty, emergencies and inequalities.