February 20, 2009 in the Research Enterprise - Dr. Judith Ernst, Associate Professor of Nutrition & Dietetics in the Indiana University School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences, is the Lead Principal Investigator of the project titled “Increasing Animal Source Foods in Diets of HIV-infected Kenyan Women and Their Children”. The project, now in Phase III, is a randomized nutrition feeding intervention that evaluates the effect of protein quality and micronutrients in meat on the health and nutritional well-being of drug naïve women living with HIV in rural Kenya and the health and development of their vulnerable children. Isocaloric nutrition intervention biscuits that contain meat, soy, or wheat protein were developed in Phase I and then pilot tested in rural Kenyan women and young children in Phase II...

Read the full article about the HNP entitled "Including Meat in Diets May Prove Beneficial to HIV-infected Rural Kenyan Women and Their Children"

Click here to read more about the HNP on the GL-CRSP website