AIDS and malnutrition inextricably linked

The importance of the links between AIDS, nutrition, and food security is only just being realised, a conference in London was told last week. The disease is having a devastating impact on the availability of food. And a shortage of food is increasing deaths from the disease, the conference heard.

In April last year, the World Health Organization held a consultation meeting in Durban, South Africa, on nutrition and HIV/AIDS in Africa, at which participants concluded that “the HIV epidemic is increasingly driven by, and contributes to, factors that also …