[pronut-hiv] Nutrition in Comprehensive HIV Care, Treatment and Support Programs

["ProNut-HIV" <pronut-hiv@healthnet..org>]

In its comprehensive approach to HIV care, treatment and support, FHI
promotes integrating nutritional services throughout the continuum of
HIV/AIDS care. Nutritional status and the progression of HIV are
strongly interrelated. HIV infection increases the body's energy needs
while it diminishes appetite and decreases the body's ability to digest
food and absorb nutrients. Nutritional status can affect both the
efficacy of antiretroviral therapy (ART) and a patient's ability to
adhere to a treatment regimen. HIV-related illness can also indirectly
influence nutritional status by limiting a household's ability to
generate income, purchase food and raise crops.

http://www.fhi.org/en/HIVAIDS/pub/fact/hivcare.htm