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Food Security : Volume 1, Issue 2, June 2009

Food Security : Volume 1, Issue 1, February 2009

Food prices and the HIV response: findings from rapid regional assessments in eastern and southern Africa in 2008

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Author	Gillespie, Stuart Jere, Paul Msuya, John Drimie, Scott
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	Undernutrition and food insecurity play a pivotal role in the AIDS epidemics of eastern and southern Africa, affecting both risks of HIV transmission and the subsequent AIDS-related impacts. The response to such epidemics thus needs to be comprehensive in focusing on broad-based approaches to prevention, treatment and care, and mitigation, as well as interventions to improve nutritional status and food security. This paper synthesizes the findings of two rapid regional assessments of the impact of high food prices on people living with HIV and on the regional response to AIDS epidemics. Food and economic crises, whether driven by rising food prices or other factors, exacerbate and intensify the vicious cycles that play out between HIV, food insecurity and malnutrition—rendering it more difficult, as well as more important, to effectively and sustainably integrate responses to HIV and hunger. To stimulate better understanding and response, there is need to establish a platform for regular media/public discussions on these issues at national and regional levels as has been done on prevention and antiretroviral therapy (ART) issues in the past. Such a move would help raise awareness and sustain interest and action on the HIV-hunger nexus. Networks of people living with HIV (PLHIV), NGOs, UN agencies and research bodies can take leading roles in this area to ensure that governments and donors are responsive to food crises, and to ensure that vulnerable groups have a voice, and their concerns are heard. Ultimately, national governments, donors and international organizations now need to go beyond lip service and statements of commitment to properly fund and support multisectoral programming which sustainably incorporates integrated HIV, food and nutrition responses.
Starting Page	261
Ending Page	269
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF
ISSN	18764517
Journal	Food Security
Volume Number	1
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	18764525
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2009-07-10
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	HIV/AIDS Food security Food prices Malnutrition Africa Social Sciences Environment Plant Sciences Social Policy Food Science Agriculture
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Development Food Science Agronomy and Crop Science

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