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Nutrition
A Practical Guide to Nutrition for Persons Living with HIV Disease (1998)
Explains the problem of weight loss and how to deal with it as well as how to eat to stay healthy and get the nutrients you need.
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Assessment of Nutritional Status for Adults, Using Weight and Height (2005)
Explains how to calculate body mass index (BMI) and when to take action based on changes in BMI. Includes a BMI reference table that helps you determine where you fall in the range of underweight to normal to overweight.
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Fact Sheet: Nutrition (2001)
This fact sheet explains how HIV/AIDS affects appetite and weight loss and offers plenty of helpful advice on how to make eating enjoyable.
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Food and Nutrition Counselling for PLWHA on Antiretroviral Therapy: A job aid for counselors and antiretroviral therapy (ART) service providers (2005)
"Provides step-by-step information to help counselors and service providers to counsel on nutrition and HIV for PLWHA on ART. It can be used to prepare a client for ART, to counsel clients who are taking ART, and during subsequent follow-up and home visits to ART clients. It can also be used in training counselors and ART service providers."
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Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance: Technical Note No. 7: August 2003: Technical Notes: Food and Nutrition Implications of Antiretroviral Therapy in Resource Limited Settings (2003)
This technical note provides information and guidance about the food and nutrition implications of ART and how to manage the effects of these implications in resource limited settings. The purpose of the document is to assist program planners, groups developing guidance on care and support, service providers, and networks of people living with HIV/AIDS to understand and address ART interactions with food and nutrition. The information presented here can also help managers of programs that include ART components to incorporate food and nutrition counseling and other interventions as needed. While this document is not designed for direct use by community-level health workers, it can be used to support the development of communication materials such as counseling aids, as well as training materials.
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Food, Health, and You - Living with HIV (2004)
Explains how to ear healthy, including planning meals better, how to gain weight, how to lower your cholesterol and ways to avoid getting sick from spoiled foods.
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Good For You! (2005)
"This provides tips on how to increase food intake and eat a variety of foods, how to practice good hygiend and how to live a positive lifestyle."
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HIV/AIDS and Nutrition: A review of the literature and recommendations for nutritional care and support in sub-Saharan Africa (2000)
"This paper informs health professionals working in nutrition and/or health programs about the role of nutrition in HIV infection in African settings, and describes three overlapping processes that lead to weight loss and wasting in PLWHA: reductions in food intake, nutrient malabsorption, and metabolic alterations."
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HIV/AIDS: A Guide for Nutrition, Care and Support (2001)
This guide is intended to help development program managers make recommendations on food management and nutritional issues for households with members who are HIV-infected or living with AIDS. 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 maintain their health and nutritional status. 6 modules.
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Nutrient Requirements for People Living with HIV/AIDS (2003)
This document reports on the conclusions and recommendations of a technical consultation on the nutrient requirements of PLHA.
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Nutrition (2005)
"Part of an information series for HIV-positive people. This booklet is intended to answer some of the most commonly asked questions about food, nutrition and HIV infection. It outlines how to eat well if you are HIV-positive and the sort of foods you should eat to keep well if you experience changes in your metabolism whilst taking anti-HIV medication. Information on the sort of food you need to eat to maximize absorption of anti-HIV drugs is included. It also gives advice on how to prevent weight loss and food-borne infections."
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Nutrition and HIV/AIDS: A handbook for people living with AIDS and their careers
"This provides information on good nutrition, as well as common problems in PLHA that affect nutrition."
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Nutrition and HIV/AIDS: A training manual (2003)
This manual is intended to complement materials used in institutions of higher learning to improve the quality of training in nutrition and HIV/AIDS. The manual provides a comprehensive source of information on nutrition and HIV/AIDS, and provides instructors with technical content, presentations, practical exercises, and handout materials that can be used for planning and facilitating courses and lectures.
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Nutrition Counselling, Care and Support for HIV-infected Women: Guidelines on HIV-related Care, Treatment and Support for HIV-infected Women and Their Children in Resource-constrained Settings (2004)
These guidelines cover the nutritional needs of HIV + women, including information on special requirement during pregnancy and lactation and during ARV treatment. They also provide recommendations on treatment, including iron and vitamin A supplementation and management of wasting.
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Nutrition for PLWHA - Counselling Cards (2005)
These cards are designed for counselors and health workers to enhance nutrition counseling for PLWHA. These cards can help PLWHA or their caregivers to make informed choices for improving their nutrition, identify and use locally available foods to meet their nutritional needs, understand and adopt practices that promote a healthier nutritional status, and understand how to use diet to manage common HIV/AIDS related conditions.
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Nutrition for PLWHA: A meal planning tool (2005)
"Provides tips on how to ear healthy, examples of food choices in each food group along with speacil preparation considerations, and a daily meal planner chart."
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Nutrition: Eating Healthy (2003)
Provides basic information on good nutrition and the special issues PLHA may have with nutrition.
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Nutritional Care and Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda: Guidelines for Service Providers (2004)
These guidelines are meant for use by service providers who have the primary responsibility of support and care for HIV/AIDS patients in Uganda.
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Nutritional Care for People Living with HIV/AIDS: Answers to frequently asked questions (2005)
"This booklet answers commonly asked questions on nutrition and HIV/AIDS, including some on maintaining body composition and traditional herb therapy. "
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