The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian agency.
As a Cosponsor of UNAIDS and under the UNAIDS division of labour, WFP is the lead agency on dietary and nutrition support in the HIV response.
Nutrition and food security are critical components of care and support for many people living with HIV. WFP works in partnership with governments, other United Nations agencies, non-governmental organizations and communities to secure the nutrition and food security.
WFP implements HIV programmes in over 50 countries focusing on two main objectives:
- Improving HIV treatment success through food and nutrition support; and
- Mitigating the effects of HIV on affected individuals and households through time-bound safety-nets and advocating for the provision of safety-nets to the broader community of food-insecure people including, but not limited to, people living with HIV.
Policies
HIV, food security and nutrition: Policy brief (WFP/WHO/UNAIDS, 2008)
HIV, food security and nutrition: Expanded policy brief (WFP/WHO/UNAIDS, 2008)
Nutrition and HIV treatment
WFP Food Assistance in the Context of Tuberculosis Care and Treatment (WFP, 2007)
HIV, nutrition and food security: What we can do (World Bank/WFP, 2007)
Social protection
Ration design guide: Food assistance programming in the context of HIV (WFP, 2008)
Integrating HIV/AIDS in food security and vulnerability analysis (WFP, 2008)
Food assistance programming in the context of HIV (WFP/USAID/AED, 2007)
Social Protection in the Era of HIV and AIDS (WFP, 2007)
Nutrition and vulnerable populations
Cost of Providing Nutritional Support for: People living with HIV, Adults receiving TB treatment, Orphans and vulnerable children and Pregnant women (Center for Global Health/WFP/UNAIDS, 2010)
HIV/AIDS & Children (WFP, 2008)
The development of programme strategies for integration of HIV, food and nutrition activities in refugee settings (UNAIDS/WFP/UNHCR, 2007)
Promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women in addressing food and nutrition challenges (WFP, 2009)
HIV, AIDS and Gender in WFP Programmes (WFP, 2006)
Contact
HIV/AIDS Unit, The World Food Programme
Via Cesare Giulio Viola, 68/70, Parco de'Medici – 00148 Rome, Italy
Tel: +39.06.6513.2721
Email: hiv-aids@wfp.org
Learn more
Visit the WFP web site to learn more about its response to HIV. More
UNAIDS Strategy 2011-2015
Guided by the UNAIDS Strategy 2011–2015 —the ten Cosponsors and the UNAIDS Secretariat are united in working towards the vision of “Zero new infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS-related deaths.”
