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Mangena-Netshikweta

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• Research Article
  Food Insecurity Among HIV Sero-Positive Patients
  Author(s): Tshililo AR MCur and Mangena-NetshikwetaTshililo AR MCur and Mangena-Netshikweta
  
  Due to the uncertainties of job availabilities among rural communities, poverty stricken families find it hard to supply enough food to their family members. However, food insecurity has been defined by Weiser and Bangsberg as the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate, safe foods or the inability to acquire personally acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways. South African study by Mashau supported Mills and Bangsberg study by warning that hunger is the most extreme consequence of food insecurity. Tshililo also warned that immune system of a person with HIV and AIDS needs to be boosted with nutritious food. The broader concept encompassed problems with household food supply, quality of diet, feelings about the situation, and what effort was made to maintain household food supplies. The purpose of this study was to explore food insecurity among HI sero-positiv.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2167-1168.1000178

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