Journal Article

HIV/AIDS and food and nutrition security: interactions and response

Gillespie, Stuart, Kadiyala, Suneetha

2005

Overview

HIV/AIDS epidemics are long-wave crises, with impacts to be felt for many decades to come. Whatever the impact of the highly publicized but slow-moving roll-out of antiretroviral therapy, a much more comprehensive and scaled-up response is needed from many quarters so as to better match the scale, breadth, and interconnectedness of the pandemic's causes and impacts. Against this backdrop, there is an urgent need for a broader understanding of the integral role that food and nutrition security can and should play in such responses. This first part of this article will define concepts and map potential interactions between HIV/AIDS and food and nutrition security. The second will focus on what is known about how food and nutrition insecurity may increase the risk of exposure to HIV infection and how HIV/AIDS in turn impacts food and nutrition security. The third section provides a conceptual tool - an HIV/AIDS lens - to help agricultural and other development policies become more \"HIV-responsive.\" The concluding section highlights a few important research gaps.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press,American Agricultural Economics Association,Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subject: Acquired immune deficiency syndrome / Africa / Agricultural development / Agricultural economics / Agricultural policy / Agricultural production / agriculture / AIDS / Antiretroviral agents / Antiretroviral therapy / Connectedness / Development policy / disease course / Disease risk / Disease transmission / Epidemics / Epidemiology / farmers / Food / food availability / Food policy / Food security / Food supply / gender inequality / HIV / HIV infections / Households / Human immunodeficiency virus / Hunger / I120 / Insecurity / International / literature reviews / Malnutrition / men / Mortality / Nutrition / nutritional adequacy / pandemic / Pandemics / production economics / Public health / Q180 / risk assessment / risk reduction / Security / social environment / Studies / What Role for Agricultural Economists in Addressing the HIV/AIDs Pandemic? / women