How We Make A Difference

The role of good nutrition in the management of HIV/AIDS has assumed an ever-increasing importance over the past two decades.

In fact, medical research has shown that nutritious food is one of the most powerful weapons available for fighting the often-calamitous effects of AIDS.

Furthermore, it has been clinically confirmed that HIV-related malnutrition with its heightened immuno-suppression, muscle wasting, and outright starvation due to malabsorption and abnormal metabolism of nutrients is more often the cause of death for PWA’s than any other single opportunistic infection.

New medications offer new hope, but these advances only increase the need for proper nutrition.

Many PWA’s live in circumstances that do not allow them to assume their next meal will be accessible – our program staff and volunteers work with those individuals to ensure they can improve their adherence rates and thus benefit from them.

In addition to helping individuals and families coping with AIDS, to live healthy and productive lives, nutrition support for PWA’s also helps the communities in which they live.

It has been proven again and again that PWA’s who receive effective nutrition support get fewer AIDS-related opportunistic infections and therefore spend less time in hospitals, have shorter stays when they do go to hospital, have quicker recuperation periods and spend less time on disability insurance and public support.