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FOOD, NUTRITION BOOST EFFECTIVENESS OF HIV TREATMENT
Nusa Dua, Bali, Aug 12 (ANTARA) - The importance of nutrition support for people living with HIV is now a major issue of the UN World Food Programme and they want to make a new model to implement this with governments all around the globe.
"Without adequate nutrition, malnourished people living with HIV experience reduced treatment effectiveness as well as lower tolerance to the drugs," Martin W Bloem, Director of the Nutrition and HIV/AIDS Policy Division said in the middle of 9th International Congress on AIDS in Asia-Pacific, Nusa Dua, Bali, Wednesday.
The WFP, he said, are placing greater emphasis on the integration of nutritional care for those who have been infected with HIV reached through the health sector.
According to the findings in Africa, the continent has a very huge number of malnourished people infected by HIV/AIDS, and the access for the people to find proper food is very hard.
But in Asia, HIV prevalence is lower than in other regions of the world, and the estimation is about five million people with HIV living there. In the Asia-Pacific region, the WFP currently implements AIDS programmes in 10 countries.
"All of them support efforts to move forwards universal access to HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment and care, and the behavior amongst the society dealing with this nutrition-related AIDS," he said.
In the implementation in India, he added, the WFP together with India's national AIDS control organization provided a fortified food named NutriPlus along with the nutrition counseling, to more than 15,000 people living with HIV.
"According to the reesults we have evaluated, there has been significant improvement in the overall nutritional status of beneficiaries receiving both NutriPlus and ART," he said.
In the future, the WFP programme to respond to HIV and AIDS in the region will focus on creating additional joint programmes with each national government in many ways.
The WFP also will seek to influence policy frameworks and discussions using evidence of the success of integrated nutrition support into HIV treatment and enhance understanding of the drivers of the epidemic in Asia amongst the most at-risk population.
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"Without adequate nutrition, malnourished people living with HIV experience reduced treatment effectiveness as well as lower tolerance to the drugs," Martin W Bloem, Director of the Nutrition and HIV/AIDS Policy Division said in the middle of 9th International Congress on AIDS in Asia-Pacific, Nusa Dua, Bali, Wednesday.
The WFP, he said, are placing greater emphasis on the integration of nutritional care for those who have been infected with HIV reached through the health sector.
According to the findings in Africa, the continent has a very huge number of malnourished people infected by HIV/AIDS, and the access for the people to find proper food is very hard.
But in Asia, HIV prevalence is lower than in other regions of the world, and the estimation is about five million people with HIV living there. In the Asia-Pacific region, the WFP currently implements AIDS programmes in 10 countries.
"All of them support efforts to move forwards universal access to HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment and care, and the behavior amongst the society dealing with this nutrition-related AIDS," he said.
In the implementation in India, he added, the WFP together with India's national AIDS control organization provided a fortified food named NutriPlus along with the nutrition counseling, to more than 15,000 people living with HIV.
"According to the reesults we have evaluated, there has been significant improvement in the overall nutritional status of beneficiaries receiving both NutriPlus and ART," he said.
In the future, the WFP programme to respond to HIV and AIDS in the region will focus on creating additional joint programmes with each national government in many ways.
The WFP also will seek to influence policy frameworks and discussions using evidence of the success of integrated nutrition support into HIV treatment and enhance understanding of the drivers of the epidemic in Asia amongst the most at-risk population.
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