Nutritional care and support training course

The Institute of Food, Nutrition and Family Sciences (IFNFS) at the University of Zimbabwe, in close collaboration with the International Agricultural Centre (IAC) will be holding a regional training course on nutritional care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS from 20 - 31 January 2003 in Harare, Zimbabwe.

HIV/AIDS and Land

The following is a list of documents relating to HIV/AIDS and land:

Permaculture project offers hope to community

The Phomolong Permaculture Project was launched on February 27, 2003 with the support of the Canada Fund and Food & Trees for Africa.

Legal vacuum hampers health for all

The common lament running through the South African Health Review (SAHR) for 2002 is government’s failure to provide the country with the legal tools to guide the transformation of healthcare services.

New approaches needed to food security - SADC Report

The impact of HIV/AIDS on food security in Southern Africa is now well recognised. The critical question is what can be done to halt the slide into poverty by affected households, a report released on Wednesday by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) said.

Impact of HIV/AIDS could be worse than that of drought - Swaziland

HIV/AIDS, more than drought conditions, has the potential for worsening Swaziland's continuing food crisis, a joint Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) has warned.

Water and HIV/AIDS - some strategic considerations

At first sight, the issues of HIV/AIDS and water would appear to bear very little relation to each other. HIV/AIDS is a global-scale pandemic that is transmitted between people primarily through sexual contact, while water is a renewable natural resource of which the availability depends on a variety of geographic and climatic factors.

The agriculture, nutrition and HIV/AIDS connections in developing countries

This essay was invited by USAID, and is intended to inform its strategic planning in agriculture. It seeks to create an awareness of the connections between rural poverty, undernutrition, and HIV/AIDS in developing nations and to then suggest specific cross-sector investment strategies that can be used more effectively to combat the three.

Call for papers - Multidisciplinary forum of child and youth research, with a focus on HIV/AIDS

HIVAN (Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking) is a research, networking and advocacy organisation attached to the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. HIVAN is convening a two-day forum on the 26th and 27th of November 2004 in Durban and will present various in-house projects which link biomedical and social science research with practice. Other researchers across multiple disciplines in the field of childhood studies and HIV/AIDS are invited to share this platform to present their work. The Forum will be open to both academics and practitioners.

New thinking needed on impact of HIV/AIDS on agriculture

The impact of HIV/AIDS on agriculture in Southern Africa is now well recognised. But a new report is calling for a rethink of current views on the effects of the epidemic and more concrete and specific regional responses.