Nutrition and HIV/AIDS: A Training Manual - Linkages Project

insecurity and may increase malnutrition, particularly in nutritionally vulnerablepregnant and lactating women and children.HIV/AIDS adds to the already heavy burden women face as workers, caregivers,educators, and mothers (slide 47). Women are responsible for caring for the sickwhen they themselves may be infected. At the same time, in many countries theirlegal, social, and political status makes them more vulnerable to HIV/AIDS.ReferencesAmerican Dietetic Association and Dietitians of Canada. 2000. Manual of clinicaldietetics. Sixth edition. Chicago, Illinois.Clark, TD, and RD Semba. 2001. Iron supplementation during humanimmunodeficiency virus infection: A double-edged sword? Med Hypotheses 57(4):476-79.Coutsoudis, A, et al. 2001. Are HIV-infected women who breastfeed at increased riskof mortality? AIDS 15: 653-55.———.1999. Randomized trial and testing the effect of vitamin A supplementation onpregnancy outcomes and early mother-to-child HIV-1 transmission in Durban, SouthAfrica. South African Vitamin A Study Group. AIDS 13:1517-24.Fawzi, W, et al. Randomised trial of effects of vitamin supplements on pregnancyoutcomes and T cell counts in HIV-1 infected women in Tanzania. Lancet 16; 351(9114): 1477-82.———. 2000. Randomized trial of vitamin supplements in relation to verticaltransmission of HIV-1 in Tanzania. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 23: 246-54.———. 2002. Randomized trial of vitamin supplements in relation to transmission ofHIV-1 through breastfeeding and early child mortality. AIDS 27; 16(14): 1935-44.Gorduek, VR, et al. 2001. Iron status and the outcome of HIV infection: an overview.J Clinical Virology 20: 111-15.153