Nutrition Care and Support of People Living with HIV in Countries in Francophone Africa: Progress, Experience, and Lessons Learned

Food and nutrition interventions play an important role in the global response to the HIV pandemic, though, to-date, the main focus has been on eastern, central and southern African countries where the HIV pandemic is most severe. However, food and nutrition interventions are important in West Africa as well, where HIV prevalence may not be as high but malnutrition rates often are.

Nutrition Care and Support of People Living with HIV in Countries in Francophone Africa: Progress, Experience, and Lessons Learned presents the results of a 2008 review of progress in integrating nutrition into the HIV care and support in 18 francophone countries in western and central Africa. This report was prepared for and presented at the Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) WHO Consultation on Nutrition and HIV in November 2008.

The report was funded by the United States Agency for International Development Bureau for Global Health’s Office of Health, Infectious Disease, and Nutrition and Office of HIV/AIDS.

The report is available in French and an executive summary is available in English.

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