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HIV NUTRITION UPDATE
VOLUME 6, ISSUE 5

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Comprehensive Care Center
By Denise Li, BS

Patient Education Materials: Nutrition education periodicals are featured in a monthly Heartbeat Newsletter. It is usually American Dietetic Association (ADA) Fact Sheet information.  Other fact sheets come from web sites, such as AIDSInfonet, Centers for Disease Control (CDC) AIDS brochures, National AIDS Treatment Information Project, HIV ReSources or AIDS Nutrition Services Alliance (ANSA) newsletter feature articles or fact sheets. Additional patient education materials come from pharmaceutical companies, the Health Dept of King County, Washington, ADA, CDC, and HRSA Websites.
 
What is your most difficult issue? When she first started, Ms. Theissen found it difficult to keep current on patient status - clinically, physically, emotionally and symptomatically. 

Who is your best ally? “My best allies are my peers through the ADA HIV/AIDS Dietetic Practice Group.”
What differences exist between current clientele and that of the HIV-positive person in the early 1980s?  ”Recent trends include a wider age group, an increase in minorities and newly infected women, Hispanics, African Americans, low-income and drug users. We still see predominant male single homosexuals.”

Is someone involved in program operation actively involved with the local HIV/AIDS Health Services Planning Council? The Chief Financial and Administrative Officer and Executive Director are all on  the local HIV/AIDS Health Services Planning Council and Ryan White Consortia.

How do you participate in HIV/AIDS networking groups? “I participate regularly in the annual ANSA conference and help at the annual HIV conference here at Vanderbilt University in November.”

What have you found to be most useful in helping to keep up with the current research on nutrition and HIV?  The HIV/AIDS DPG web site and annual ANSA conference along with regional local conferences are helpful research tools on nutrition and HIV.
 
 
 

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