This research paper considers the correlation between nutrition and AIDS and how to assure optimal nutritional status despite the multifactorial complications of the HIV-AIDS progression. It is irrespective of popular beliefs that proper nutrition does not affect the quality and longevity of people with AIDS (PWAS). This research aims to prove that nutrition intervention has an important role in the treatment of AIDS. Some of the information contained in this document will be new to some readers since there is little clinical research published on AIDS and nutritional intervention. Readers who are accustomed to reading articles on sexually transmitted diseases, and how to safeguard against the AIDS disease (e.g. condomizing) will be brought face to face with unrelenting information that has been uncovered and will be presented in a simple, yet straightforward way. Information for this research paper was sourced from relevant books, online sources and from the Caribbean Epidemiology Center (CAREC) in Trinidad. An appendix will also be used to simplify the information. The result of this paper as predicted by the researcher will create a heightened sense of awareness of the effect nutritional status of PWAS to the population. INTRODUCTIONIn Trinidad and Tobago, the population is relatively well educated and more prosperous than most Third World countries so HIV/AIDS should not be a major problem. Unfortunately, despite our educational levels, despite the churches assertion of the impossible abstinence over the feasibility and availability of condoms, Trinidad and Tobago is the highest infected country in the Caribbean. (See Appendix 1). Hence, during the HIV-AIDS progression, people’s nutritional status is challenged by symptoms of malabsorption, abnormal nutrient metabolism and severe malnutrition, which decrease longevity and increase morbidity.Malnutrition is a serious problem in the HIV-AIDS progression. The HIV-...
