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    Food and nutrition implications of antiretroviral therapy in resource limited settings

    Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2004
    This technical note from the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance (FANTA) Project provides information and guidance about the food and nutrition implications of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in resource limited settings.
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    Agrobiodiversity strategies to combat food insecurity and HIV/AIDS impact in rural Africa

    Development Gateway, 2003
    On the basis of participatory field research conducted in different rural areas of Sub-Saharan Africa, this paper demonstrates that agrobiodiversity and the associated indigenous knowledge are relevant forces to combat food insecurity and the HIV/AIDS crisis.
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    Assessment and improvement of care for AIDS-affected children under age 5

    ProNUTRITION, 2000
    Very little is known specifically about the 0-4 AIDS affected age group, since most orphan assessments treat the 0-15 (or 0-18) year age span only as a whole. Because of their nutritional, health and psycho-social needs, children under age 5 represent a group that demands special attention.
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    HIV/AIDS, food security and rural livelihoods: understanding and responding

    Regional Network on HIV/AIDS, Rural Livelihoods and Food Security, 2003
    This working paper is published by the Regional Network on HIV/AIDS, Rural Livelihoods and Food Security (RENEWAL). It describes key concepts which it argues need to be understood by agricultural, food, and nutrition-relevant organisations attempting to respond to HIV and AIDS effectively.
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    HIV/AIDS: a guide for nutrition, care and support

    ProNUTRITION, 2001
    This paper provides information for HIV/AIDS-affected households and communities on how to live a healthy life from the time of infection with HIV through the progression of the disease.The information focuses on dietary and care practices for adults during different stages of HIV and also provides suggestions for all household and community members coping with the infection and trying to maint
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    Handbook: developing and applying national guidelines on nutrition and HIV/AIDS

    Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2003
    Although other guides have been produced detailing general, ethical guidelines on nutrition for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs). The content of these guides is appropriate for the majority of countries in the region.
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    Effective food and nutrition policy responses to HIV/AIDS: what we know and what we need to know

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002
    This paper from the International Food Policy Research Institute reviews the ways in which HIV and AIDS impact on assets and institutions generally, as well as agriculture, natural resource management, food security, and nutrition. The authors argue that the role of the food and nutrition sectors is in mitigation, which is also an effective form of prevention.
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    Nutrition and HIV/AIDS

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2001
    This is a policy paper based on a symposium held in 2001. It transcribes the speeches made and the discussions that followed them. Speakers talked aboutnutritional impacts of HIV/AIDSnutrition and care programmesmothers with HIV feeding infants (impacts on both infants and mothers)a success story from Uganda
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    Living well with HIV/AIDS: a manual on nutritional care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS

    Food and Nutrition Division, FAO, 2002
    The links between HIV and food security are known, the epidemic has reduced food production and access to food, while nutritional care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS is an important part of caring at all stages of the disease.
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    The challenge of HIV/AIDS for food security and nutrition

    Overseas Development Group, East Anglia University (UEA) School of Development Studies, 2002
    This paper, published by the University of East Anglia School of Development Studies, describes the main results of a number of studies in sub-Saharan Africa which have explored agricultural production, food security, labour shortages and agricultural knowledge systems as they are affected by HIV and AIDS.

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