Updated Guidelines and materials for an integrated approach to nutrition for HIV-infected children 6 months to 14 years, WHO updated 2009

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Dear All,

You may find these materials useful in your work.

Overview:

In the area of nutrition and HIV, children deserve special attention because of

their additional needs to ensure growth and development and their dependency on

adults for adequate care. It was therefore proposed to first develop guidelines

for children and thereafter consider a similar approach for other specific

groups.

The content of these guidelines acknowledges that wasting and undernutrition in

HIV-infected children reflect a series of failures within the health system, the

home and community and not just a biological process related to virus and host

interactions. In trying to protect the nutritional well-being or reverse the

undernutrition experienced by infected children, issues of food insecurity, food

quantity and quality as well as absorption and digestion of nutrients are

considered. Interventions are proposed that are practical and feasible in

resource-poor settings and offer a prospect for clinical improvement.

The guidelines do not cover the feeding of infants 0 to 6 months old, because

the specialised care in this age group is already addressed in other WHO

guidelines and documents.

Pls see link:

http://www.who.int/nutrition/publications/hivaids/9789241597524/en/index.html

regards,

Dr Po-Lin Chan

Country Officer HIV/AIDS

chanpo@...

www.whoindia.org

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