Preventive Medicine

Food aid for provided to HIV/AIDS-affected in Central African Republic

Published in AIDS Weekly, July 7th, 2003

The U.N. World Food Program (WFP) will provide enriched food rations to HIV/AIDS infected or affected people from July 2003 to help them resist opportunistic diseases, the agency's representative in the Central African Republic (CAR), David Bulman, told U.N. Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN).

Bulman said the agency met on June 11, 2003, with government officials, representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and other experts dealing with HIV/AIDS in the country to "ask them in what way food can be best used in support of HIV affected people."

According to IRIN (www.irin.org), he said the WFP food project targeted 12,000...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2003-07-07)

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