Malnutrition in Malawi
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Malawi is one of the countries experiencing an unprecedented HIV/AIDS epidemic in an environment where malnutrition is rampant. In 2001 Malawi started providing ARVs to HIV patients. This ARV programme is now being scaled up to cover the whole country. Since underlying malnutrition is associated with adverse ART outcomes, the Malawi government commissioned a study to design a programme for integrating nutrition in the ARV scale up plan. This study used a Participatory qualitative research methodology. The study recommends that nutritional support should include therapeutic feeding, food supplements and take home ration and proposes a clear enrolment and discharge criteria.
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