The interconnection among HIV, AIDS, and malnutrition in the context of Tanzania (Immune deficiency)

Current research on HIV/AIDS, in the context of sub-Saharan Africa, emphasizes the interconnection between HIV/AIDS and nutrition. This research asserts nutrition plays a crucial role in: preventing HIV; prolonging overall health and longevity for people living with HIV; progression of HIV to AIDS; and dramatic escalation to full-blown AIDS.; Highlighting nutrition as an important factor in the acquisition of HIV, AIDS, and progression of HIV to AIDS calls for a rethinking of the AIDS pandemic. This theoretical connection offers hopeful and tangible ways to think about, and devise strategies to combat HIV and AIDS. Implementing intervention and development strategies based on the understanding of a symbiotic relationship of HIV, AIDS, and nutrition is especially needed in the context of Tanzania where HIV seropositivity is 8.1%, and the rate of malnutrition is 41%.; In addition to promoting education on safe-sex practices, providing education on the importance of maintaining overall nutrition and health, as a means to prevent HIV and AIDS acquisition and treat HIV seropositive people, is essential to combating the AIDS pandemic. This thinking humanizes the escalating HIV/AIDS scourge in Tanzania, and in other countries severely affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic and malnutrition. Furthermore, this thinking assists in de-stigmatizing HIV/AIDS and restoring dignity to people living and dying with a health condition, commonly associated with socially and culturally immoral behavior.