Africa Knowledge Management Portal
Informing health decisions and actions
Description
The coexistence of high rates of malnutrition and HIV/AIDS in East and Southern Africa creates an additional challenge for nutritionists. Providing adequate nutrition at community and individual levels, even in the absence of HIV/AIDS, remains a problem. The new challenge calls for the acceleration of both short-term and longterm efforts to combat malnutrition and its effect on morbidity and mortality associated with HIV/AIDS. New capacities have to be developed and new resources sought. The Greater Horn of Africa Capacity Development Initiative in Nutrition (GHA-CDIN) has identified nutrition in the context of HIV/AIDS as an area of capacity development that urgently needs attention.