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Food can help vulnerable children stay in school and
AIDS-affected families stay together. Food combined
with drug treatment cannot only make people living with
HIV and/or TB feel better, but also help them
adhere to the treatment.
When a family member is sick with HIV, he or she works
less. As income declines, less money is available to buy food or pay for health care.
Without assistance, the likely, and potentially deadly,
consequence is malnutrition - not only for the sick
wage earner but also the rest of the family.
Where poor and hungry people are affected by HIV, food
helps to mitigate
its impact. Food should always be part of treatment and
care programmes; medicine alone is not enough.
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