A pre-post pilot study of peer nutritional counseling and food insecurity and nutritional outcomes among antiretroviral therapy patients in Honduras

BMC Nutrition

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Derose, Kathryn P ^a   Felician, Melissa ^a   Han, Bing ^a   Palar, Kartika ^b   Ramírez, Blanca ^c   Farías, Hugo ^d   Martínez, Homero ^a,e  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c United Nations World Food Program   (Honduras)

^d United Nations Environment Programme   (Panama)

^e HOSPITAL INFANTIL DE MÉXICO FEDERICO GÓMEZ   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Food insecurity; HIV; Lay health workers; Nutritional counseling

Indexed keywords

EID: 85028020384     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20550928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40795-015-0017-7     Document Type: Article

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