HIV/AIDS and food and nutrition security: From evidence to action

This book highlights the main interactions between HIV/AIDS and food and nutrition insecurity and suggests responses. An earlier paper (Loevinsohn and Gillespie 2003a) proposed a framework to facilitate a more holistic understanding of these interactions and ultimately to improve the means of responding at different levels. This review intends to put flesh on this framework. It has the following objectives:

• Demonstrate the need to take a fully comprehensive and holistic approach to investigating how HIV/AIDS is affecting (and affected by) people, communities, and governments, in order to better understand the various risks, impacts, and responses.
• Review the evidence behind the ‘upstream' factors and processes that contribute to HIV spread as well as the various ‘downstream' impacts of AIDS and premature death.
• Review the responses to these risks and impacts at different levels, from individuals and households up to national governments, along with the implications for international agencies.

IFPRI - 2005.