Nutrition and HIV/AIDS: A Training Manual

Nutrition plays a critical role in comprehensive care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS. Nutritional interventions can help manage symptoms, promote response to medical treatment, slow progression of the disease, and increase the quality of life by improving daily functioning. To strengthen capacity to implement nutritional care and support in eastern and southern Africa, stakeholders in the region identified the need to improve incorporation of nutrition and HIV/AIDS into pre-service training for doctors, nutritionists, and other health care workers in the region.

To meet this need, the Regional Centre for Quality of Health Care (RCQHC) in Uganda, FANTA, the LINKAGES Project, and the SARA Project, developed Nutrition and HIV/AIDS: A Training Manual in consultation with instructors from several educational institutions in the region. This pre-service training manual is part of a series of activities that RCQHC, FANTA, LINKAGES, and SARA are implementing with other regional partners to strengthen nutritional care and support capacity.

Nutrition and HIV/AIDS: A Training Manual is intended to complement materials used in institutions of higher learning to improve the quality of training in nutrition and HIV/AIDS. The manual provides a comprehensive source of information on nutrition and HIV/AIDS, and provides instructors with technical content, presentations, practical exercises, and handout materials that can be used for planning and facilitating courses and lectures. The intended users of the manual are instructors of masters or undergraduate level students of medical or health sciences, applied human nutrition, dietetics or home economics, and food technology and agriculture. It is expected that students exposed to these materials will acquire enhanced knowledge and skills in the nutritional management of clients infected with HIV.

This manual is a publication of RCQHC, FANTA, and LINKAGES. Support for the development of the manual was provided by the Regional Economic Development Services Office/East and Southern Africa (REDSO/ESA) of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the United Nations University (UNU).

Nutrition and HIV/AIDS: A Training Manual (without PowerPoint presentations and without Session 7 which is currently being revised) 652 kb The training manual with accompanying PowerPoint presentations is also available on CD-rom by emailing fanta2@aed.org.
Section Title		Section PDF	Section PowerPoint
Introduction to the Manual		212 kb
Session 1. Introduction to HIV/AIDS		247 kb	1.9 mb
Session 2. Link Between Nutrition and HIV/AIDS		157 kb	183 kb
Session 3. Key Nutrition Actions for People Living with HIV/AIDS		192 kb	300 kb
Session 4. Food Security Components in HIV/AIDS Nutritional Care and Support		209 kb	643 kb
Session 5. Nutritional Management of HIV/AIDS-Related Symptoms		296 kb	134 kb
Session 6. Nutritional Care and Support of Pregnant or Lactating Women and Adolescent Girls Infected with HIV/AIDS		388 kb	434 kb
Session 7. Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Infant Feeding		Currently unavailable as the session is being revised. Please check back for updates.
Session 8. Nutritional Care for Young Children Infected with HIV or Born to HIV-Infected Mothers		195 kb	5.1 mb
Session 9. Management of Drugs and Food Interventions in HIV/AIDS Therapy		278 kb	102 kb