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

EXERCISE 8TASK 1: Why did Norman die? The actions and activities in the table below show asequence of events in the short life of an HIV-infected infant named Norman.Prepare sets of cards marked with the actions and activities. Divide the students intosmall groups, giving each group one set of the cards. Shuffle the cards to make surethe groups cannot easily find the sequence of events. As them to reconstruct thissequence and determine why Norman died (the underlying reason wasdiscontinuation of the follow up).Action/activityHelen, a 17-year-old studentHelen marriedHelen pregnantHelen attending antenatal clinicHelen receiving VCTHelen found HIV positiveHelen giving birth to a baby boy (Norman)Norman born weighing 2.7kgNorman testing HIV positiveNorman exclusively breastfed for 5monthsNorman abruptly weaned on cow’s milkNorman fully immunized for ageNorman admitted suffering from severediarrheaNorman admitted with pneumoniaNorman at 13 months and 3.2kgEIA testPCR at 1.5 monthsInformation238