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A special supplement to
Clinical Infectious Diseases (CID), a journal of The Infectious Diseases
Society of America, was published on April 1, 2003 (CID, Vol. 36, Suppl
2). The supplement contains a special report on current issues related
to nutrition management and HIV infection. It is a collaborative work of
more than 50 authorities representing a wide range of expertise in conjunction
with five federal agencies.
Formed in 1999, the National
HIV/AIDS Nutrition Guidelines Working Group includes experts from the Health
Resources and Services Administration, the Food and Drug Administration,
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes
of Health, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. Other nutrition professionals
and consumer advocates participated in the project as well. Six sub-groups
of the National HIV/AIDS Nutrition Guidelines Working Group investigated
a variety of issues related to nutrition and HIV (Table
1).
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Before and after the initial
meeting in Washington, DC, the sub-groups participated in original research,
literature reviews, and documentation of findings through telephone conferences
and email. Results from five out of the six groups were published in the
CID supplement.
John Bartlett, of the
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, states in the supplement's
introduction: "...modern management of HIV infection now requires substantial
expertise in dealing with nutritional issues and access to this expertise,
despite the fact that there have been virtually no guidelines that specifically
target the nutritional care of the HIV-infected population. This report
on the nutrition management and concerns of HIV infection is consequently
most welcome as timely, authoritative, and greatly needed."
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