Project
HNP : Increasing Animal Source Foods in the Diets of HIV-infected Kenyan Women and their Children
Details
Project Code:
HNP
Start Date:
2004
End Date:
2009
CRSP Phase:
Phase 2
Budget:
Not Available
Countries:
Kenya
Participants
Lead University:
Indiana University
Other Partners:
Heifer International,
Indiana University,
Moi University (Kenya),
University of California, Los Angeles (Minority Serving Institution),
LDACA,
Agricultural Research Organization of Israel (ARO),
Centre de cooperation Internationale en Recherche, Agronomique pour le Developpement (CIRAD),
Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO),
Joint Development Associates International,
National Institute of Deserts, Flora and Fauna,
University of California, Davis,
Uzbek Academy of Sciences, Samarkand Branch
Principal Investigator(s):
Judith A. Ernst (US); Grace Ettyang (Host Country)
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
Charlotte Neumann (US); Winstone Nyandiko, Abraham A. Siika (Kenya)
Overview
The HIV Nutrition Project is researching the use of food as means of enhancing and preserving the immune status, lean body mass and quality of daily living of drug naive HIV-infected women, and to support the growth, health and cognitive development of their vulnerable children in the Turbo Division of Uasin Gishu District in Kenya.
Objectives
Coming soon
Outcomes
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