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Theo Smart
HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice #50, July 1, 2005
Extract from this UCSF InSite article: HHI is a collaboration between Appropriate Grassroots Interventions (AGRI) and AMPATH (Academic Model for Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS) - a partnership between Kenya's Moi University/Hospital and Indiana University that has several comprehensive HIV care clinics in urban and rural centres in western Kenya with close to 4000 on antiretroviral therapy.
The HHI is a system of small scale, low cost, high production farms using locally sustainable methods on land donated by local communities to produce a wide variety of fruit, vegetables and dairy products. All HIV-infected patients registered with AMPATH undergo comprehensive nutritional assessment and those who are found to be malnourished or food insecure are given nutritional counselling and a prescription for food. The prescriptions are presented at the HHI farms or distribution points for supply of fresh, locally acceptable food that should meet the needs of the patient and their household. Also, patients and the surrounding community are educated about nutrition, agriculture as well as on HIV prevention, treatment and care.
