| HIV/AIDS Project |
• In Africa, people living with HIV/AIDS suffer from extreme deficiencies of many micronutrients • So, one might assume that their management would include supplementation with these micronutrients, but this is not the case. Micronutrient supplementation is not part of mainstream thinking in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Global interventions consist of education to promote behaviour change and the roll out of anti-retroviral drugs. • The World Health Organisation is urging all concerned to make nutrition an integral part of their response to HIV/AIDS, and specifically to develop and implement operational and clinical research to identify effective interventions. • So, in conjunction with London University and
the University of the Witwatersrand, HETN is sponsoring
a controlled trial in a rural clinic setting. We aim to
show that the addition of a broad-spectrum micronutrient
supplement - in a food form - to the anti-retroviral regime
of people living with HIV/AIDS improves clinical outcomes. Further Reading
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