"Living well with HIV/AIDS"
---------------------------
A manual on nutritional care and support for people living with
HIV/AIDS - Published by FAO, February 2003
Full manual, available at:
http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/005/Y4168E/Y4168E00.HTM
A VITAL AND OFTEN NEGLECTED COMPONENT OF HOME-BASED CARE
Few crises have affected human health and threatened national, social
and economic progress in quite the way that HIV/AIDS has. The pan-
demic has had a devastating impact on household food security and nu-
trition through its effects on the availability, stability and access
to food and its use for good nutrition.
Meeting immediate food, nutrition and other basic needs is essential
if HIV/AIDS-affected households are to live with dignity and secu-
rity. Providing nutritional care and support for people living with
HIV/AIDS is an important part of caring at all stages of the disease.
This manual provides home care agents and local service providers
with practical recommendations for a healthy and well balanced diet
for people living with HIV/AIDS. It deals with common complications
that people living with HIV/AIDS are experiencing at different stages
of infection and helps provide local solutions that emphasize using
local food resources and home-based care and support.
USERS OF THE MANUAL
The manual consists of:
1. Guidelines with accompanying information and explanations (the
main text) intended for use by:
* Health service providers and other extension workers as well as
those involved at the national and community level in the many dif-
ferent aspects of counselling and home-based care (see Figure 1).
* Community-based organizations working with people with HIV/AIDS who
need information for programming and counselling purposes.
* Planners in the health, social and nutrition services so they can
develop national or local guidelines for nutritional care and support
for people living with HIV/AIDS.
* International agencies that support national and community-based
support programmes for people with HIV/AIDS.
2. Summary sheets that can be used as handouts, listing the main
points for each key topic.
The summary sheets and leaflets are specifically for use by people
who are living with HIV/AIDS or who are caring for a person living
with HIV/AIDS, who want to be better informed.
The Annexes contain:
* Further technical information
* Suggested recipes for home treatments and foods for different con-
ditions
* Forms to monitor food intake and weight
* Sources of literature and information on institutions providing
support for people living with HIV/AIDS
--
A posting from AF-AIDS (af-aids@healthdev.net)
--
To send a message to AFRO-NETS, write to: afro-nets@healthnet.org
To subscribe or unsubscribe, write to: majordomo@healthnet.org
in the body of the message type: subscribe afro-nets OR unsubscribe afro-nets
To contact a person, send a message to: afro-nets-help@healthnet.org
Information and archives: http://www.afronets.org