Re: Nutrition information packets for HIV+ individuals in India

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Nutrition information packets for HIV+individuals in India

ASHOK ROWKAVI

Rohini,

We are preparing a new booklet on Nutrition and HIV/AIDS. Our old booklet,

which was snapped up by numerous Postivie Peoples' Groups, tries to link up

Nutrition, explains wasting syndrome, teaches how to stop diarrhea and dysentry

and dehydration, how to stop nausea and vommitting and looks at nutrition from a

very Indian low resources angle.

For example, if you cannot always boil water how to make it safer -- squeeze

half a lemon into a bottle of plain tap water. Keep dry dates (khajur) with you

for fast sugar release into your system. Rather eat a couple of tomatoes off the

street than a vada-pao/chole bhaturey etc.

We are trying to cooperate with the Nutrition Lab of the SNDT Women's University

and the naturopath Vijaya Venkat as most present diets are by western/high

resource setting persons. Indians need " bulk carbos " like rice to " fill the

belly " as otherwise they do not feel " full " .

We need to remember the Indian climate and cultural appropriateness.

regards

Ashok Row Kavi. [mailto:arowkavi@...]

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Nutrition information packets for HIV+ individuals in India

Dr. Pinagapany Manorama [mailto:pmanorama@...]

Dear Rohini Khatri

Nutrition plays a very important role in the management of PLWH/A especially

children. CHES is a NGO in Chennai which works among children infected, affected

and vulnerable to aids and children orphaned due to AIDS. CHES has brought out a

training module for is module training caregivers on care of children called

Nurtured Hope. In this module the 5th sessions is exclusively on Nutrition.

CHES believes in low cost care and hence used locally available food stuffs. At

the shelter for orphans a food chart is prepared based on the basic principles.

You can refer to this module for further reference.

Dr.P.Manorama;MD;DCH;DM

Project Director, CHES,

198, Rangarajapuram main road

Kodambakkam, Chennai 600024

email: ches_ cheschennai@...

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Nutrition information packets for HIV+ individuals in India

Geoffrey Heaviside " <gheaviside@...>

Rohini and the forum,

Are you under graduates in health and food science by any chance?

We need some folk in this category to learn the ways that toxic side effects to

ARV medicine can be minimised by the use of diet and supplements. We have food

scientists here in Australia who would be only too willing to liaise on this

topic.

It is not necessarily just recipes and nutrition that works wonders but food

intake, timing, frequency and combinations that can minimise nausea and

diahorea.

I would be happy to hear back from you and your friend in relation to this and

of course from anyone else in the list who has some skills and interest in food

science and drug side effect management.

Geoffrey Heaviside

E-mail: <gheaviside@...>