Women's voices, women's choices: The challenge of nutrition and HIV/AIDS

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 135, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 933-937

  Piwoz, Ellen G ^a   Bentley, Margaret E ^b  

^a FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Asia; HIV AIDS; Mother to child HIV transmission; Women

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BODY MASS; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD NUTRITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA ANALYSIS; DIETARY INTAKE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; INFANT FEEDING; INFECTION CONTROL; LACTATION; MALAWI; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL CARE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEX ROLE; SOUTH AFRICA; SURVIVAL RATE; TANZANIA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WELLBEING; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 16244405910     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/135.4.933     Document Type: Conference Paper

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