Background:

Food insecurity is defined as having “uncertain or limited availability of nutritionally adequate or safe food or the inability to procure food in socially acceptable ways”(1). An increasing number of studies suggest that high number of people living with HIV/AIDS are food insecure in North America (2-4). Studies conducted in San Francisco in the United States, and in British Columbia in Canada, suggest that food insecure individuals receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) have reduced body mass index (BMI), lowered CD4 cell counts, decreased rates of virological suppression and higher case fatality.

Authors: A Anema, E Druyts, SD Weiser, KA Fernandes, EK Brandson, JSG Montaner, RS Hogg.