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    Nutrition and HIV/AIDS Working Group of the SCN: a report of the meeting held at UNICEF, New York March 24, 2004

    United Nations [UN] Standing Committee on Nutrition, 2004
    The report reviews a meeting by the United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN), Nutrition and HIV/AIDS working group held at UNICEF in March 2004. The first section of the document identifies key interventions to assist in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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    Recommendation for the nutrient requirements for people living with HIV/AIDS

    Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2004
    This document, from the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance (FANTA) Project, provides updated recommendations on nutrient requirements for people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA). Current evidence suggests that nutrient requirements change as HIV infection progresses.
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    Community Therapeutic Care (CTC): a new approach to managing acute malnutrition in emergencies and beyond

    Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2004
    This technical note from the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project answers key questions on Community Therapeutic Care (CTC). CTC is a new approach to managing acute malnutrition in emergencies and beyond. It aims to provide rapid, effective and low cost assistance that is least disruptive to affected communities.
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    Nutrition and HIV/AIDS: evidence, gaps, and priority actions

    US Agency for International Development, 2004
    This USAID document outlines evidence, gaps and priority actions related to nutrition, and HIV and AIDS. The document outlines how HIV infection increases energy requirements, and how vitamin and mineral deficiencies, such as vitamins A, B, C E, selenium and zinc, may contribute to HIV progression.
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    Nutritional care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda: guidelines for service providers

    Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2004
    This document is a set of guidelines which outlines the nutritional needs of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), and includes the steps that service providers can take to help PLWHA manage symptoms and improve health through nutrition.
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    The agriculture, nutrition, and HIV/AIDS connections in developing countries

    Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003
    This essay, invited by USAID, explores the connections between rural poverty, undernutrition, and HIV and AIDS in developing nations and aims to suggest specific cross-sector investment strategies that can be used more effectively to combat the three. It argues that poverty is principally a rural problem, and that undernutrition and HIV and AIDS are closely associated with rural poverty.
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    Antenatal care in developing countries: promises, achievements and missed opportunities

    World Health Organization, 2003
    This report, produced by the World Health Organization (WHO), analyses patterns and trends in antenatal care use, using data drawn from household surveys carried out in developing countries from 1990 to 2001.
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    Transcending boundaries to improve the food security of AIDS affected households in rural Uganda

    International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2003
    This paper from the International Center for Research on Women provides information on the implementation of a collaborative project to improve household food security in rural Ugandan communities affected by HIV and AIDS. The aim of the project is increased collaboration between communities and specialists to improve the ability of households to meet their food security needs.
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    Rethinking food aid to fight AIDS

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003
    This paper from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) highlights the implications of the AIDS pandemic for food aid strategy and programming.
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    Feeding indecision: choosing to breastfeed in the era of HIV

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Women in low and middle income countries who know they have HIV face a difficult choice. Should they breastfeed and risk passing on the virus to their child? Or not breastfeed and accept the cost and stigma associated with using breast milk substitutes (BMS)? Researchers from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and UTH, Lusaka investigated mothers’ choices in Lusaka, Zambia.

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