HIV/AIDS and Food/Nutrition Security in Africa: he Way Forward.

HIV/AIDS and Food/Nutrition Security in Africa: he Way Forward.

Emmanuel Ohene Afoakwa, Ellen Ohene Afoakwa

Hunger and malnutrition have reached crisis proportions in much of Africa where about 200 million people are undernourished. Africa is the only region in the world to have experienced such substantial increase in the number of undernourished in the past 30 years, reasons for which HIV/AIDS has been noted as a major factor. HIV/AIDS depletes both human resources and capital, leading to a reduction in land area cultivated, changes in crop patterns, declines in food yields and human nutritional status. While there are many dimensions to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, little attention has been focussed on the impact of the disease on agricultural production, nutrition security, household food security and ultimately the health of the African populace.
This paper draws implications from various nutritional and epidemiological studies conducted in Africa. It also presents a framework for analysing the problems and highlights key effects of the disease on food and nutrition security, farm households and larger production units as well as the health of people in different parts of Africa.

2003

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English