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Chinese Goji BerriesImproving Nutrition of HIV Infected Children in East Africa
Following increased problems in nutrition of HIV-infected children, I have started working on a project aimed at improving the nutritional status of infants and children infected by HIV in East Africa. Currently hundreds of thousands of infants and young children under the age of five years in Uganda alone are living with the virus and about 25,000 children per year risk contracting the virus if there is no timely intervention.
Actually increased spread of HIV and AIDS is scarring the lives of many children and threatening the future stability and full potential of nations especially those in developing world. Vast numbers of children are born with the virus and suffer throughout their short lives, while millions more battle to grow up in the world where the threat of HIV-infection is ever present. It is well established that HIV infection impairs the growth of children early in life with growth faltering observed even before the onset of symptomatic HIV-infection. HIV-infected children are more likely to be born with low birth weight and therefore start life with impaired nutrition. Poor growth is associated with increased risk of mortality. Improving the nutritional status of the infected children is more likely is to prevent growth faltering and associated early death.
Thus, HIV-infected children are likely to live longer and healthier lives like other children with improved dietary intake and early prevention and treatment of opportunistic infections. Many deaths among HIV-infected children under the age of five years are attributable to malnutrition especially because most of them are born underweight and have decreased body immunity. Malnutrition affects the immune system of infected children leading to decreases in CD4 which exposes them to opportunistic infections. HIV-infected children have increased energy needs compared with uninfected children; with energy needs increasing by 10 percent in asymptomatic HIV-infected children. In HIV-infected children experiencing weight loss, energy needs are increased by 50 percent to 100 percent. Thus, timely nutrition intervention especially in the first year of life is most likely to help prevent complications due to malnutrition.
Children in East Africa like those in any other developing countries are subject to chronic food deficiencies and therefore to malnutrition. The situation is worse for those born to HIV-infected parents who may be experiencing AIDS already. HIV and AIDS adversely affect food and nutrition security in those households having the disease. Thus, on the death of their parents especially the mother HIV-infected children are left helpless resulting in immediate malnutrition and early death.
Reliance on relief foods that are normally distributed by donor organizations including UNICEF seems not to be sustainable and is less preferred by the children and their caregivers. Such relief foods have different tastes compared to the local culinary tastes that the children and their caregivers are accustomed to. Consequently, the foods are not consumed but rather sold out. Giving the caregivers money to buy food for their children is equally of less importance because experience shows that the money is diverted to the purchase of other immediate needs instead of food.
Therefore, the proposed project is aimed at determining the potentiality of locally available cereals and legumes as complementary foods for HIV-infected children in East Africa. It tends to blend the commonly used legumes and cereals to prepare energy and micronutrient dense foods that will provide adequate energy and micronutrients especially antioxidant minerals such as zinc and selenium, and antioxidant vitamins like vitamins A and E. The blends will be affordable by most of the caregivers looking after such children in the region. The proposed project is the first of its kind in the region and if financed and implemented it is expected to be a major break through in the nutrition of HIV-infected children in resource limited setting.
All ideas and any form of financial assistance are highly welcome. Let us support practical researchers with big hearts for the well being of our people.
For further information regarding the proposed project, please contact the project chief: Alex Mokori
Makerere University
Department of Food Science and Technology
P.O. Box 7062
Kampala, Uganda (East Africa).
Phone: +256-774-177366
E-mail:alexkm@eanutrition.com | |
