HIV/AIDS, Food and Nutrition Security: Impacts and Actions

This paper represents a collaboration between a research organization and an operational agency, both concerned with issues of food and nutrition security, and both concerned with how best to respond to the raging HIV/AIDS crisis in sub-Saharan Africa. It builds on and complements previous work done by Haddad and Gillespie (2001), which in turn benefited from a consultation on HIV/AIDS and rural livelihoods, held at IFPRI in January 2001, and supported by DFID. It also encompasses the main findings of five country studies of heavily impacted countries undertaken by WFP, aimed at improving understanding of the appropriate uses of food aid in prevention, care and mitigation.