HIV-Treated Drug Users’ Deaths Linked To Food Insecurity
Food insecurity increases the risk of death among injection drug users living with HIV/AIDS even when they are receiving life-prolonging antiretroviral therapy (ART), according to a new study involving Simon Fraser University. The study, recently published in the peer-reviewed science journal, PLoS One, examines the impact of food insecurity and hunger on survival among injection drug users…
June 4, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: aids, diet, food-insecurity, hiv / aids, impact, injection-drug, oncalldietitian.com, peer, recently-published, risk, science-journal, simon, simon-fraser, the-risk, users-living
