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This book is based on the International Conference on HIV/AIDS and Food and Nutrition Security: From Evidence to Action, in Durban, South Africa, in April 2005. It reviews emerging knowledge on the interactions between AIDS and hunger and what this implies for poverty, food and nutrition-relevant policy and programmes. The book is organised around three main themes: interactions, local responses and policies, programmes and interventions.

The editor argues that an HIV lens, not a filter, needs to be employed in order to see the interactions and overlapping set of problems between HIV and AIDS, food insecurity and malnutrition. Moreover, greater emphasis needs to be placed on learning from, supporting and enabling community-driven responses and innovations.

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The theme of the conference will be 'Strengthening resource capacity and transfer of adequate technology for an integrated development in Africa'. Its aims include promoting research relevant to the diseases found in and particular to Africa; identifying and evaluating old and existing technologies for healthcare in Africa; and strengthening the international lobbying of governments on certain African health issues.

Topics to be covered include: avian flu; health systems and policy; HIV, AIDS and opportunistic diseases; malaria and insecticides; neglected diseases and orphan medicines; non-communicable diseases; quality management; and reproduction and maternal health.

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