Ready to Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF) improves undernutrition among ART-treated, HIV-positive children in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Nutrition Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Sunguya, Bruno F ^a   Poudel, Krishna C ^a,b   Mlunde, Linda B ^a   Otsuka, Keiko ^a   Yasuoka, Junko ^a   Urassa, David P ^c   Mkopi, Namala P ^d   Jimba, Masamine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^d MUHIMBILI NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

HIV AIDS; Ready to use therapeutic food; Tanzania; Undernutrition

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD SECURITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; READY TO USE THERAPEUTIC FOOD; SOCIAL STATUS; STUNTING; TANZANIA; TREATMENT DURATION; UNDERWEIGHT; WASTING SYNDROME;

ANTI-HIV AGENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOOD, FORTIFIED; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERVENTION STUDIES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; TANZANIA;

EID: 84865403128     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2891-11-60     Document Type: Article

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