Transcript of BEYOND HOMESTEAD GARDENS Presented by: Ntsie Edwin Tlale POSITIVE LIVING AND NUTRITION.
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- BEYOND HOMESTEAD GARDENS Presented by: Ntsie Edwin Tlale
POSITIVE LIVING AND NUTRITION
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- Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS LRAP started with homestead gardening as
an initial intervention on mainstreaming HIV/AIDS into food
security programming Over time, realised that food gardens are an
entry point for dealing with the impacts of HIV and AIDS at
community and household level. Lead to growing interest in positive
living Lesotho Know your status campaign and increasing ART
availability provided an enabling backdrop for LRAPs work on food
security and nutrition as part of positive living LRAP has provided
training to government and local NGOs on positive living and
developed materials Healthy Living Nutritional Guidelines for poor
and very poor HHs and How to get the most from your garden
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- INTRODUCTION POSITIVE LIVING (Holistic Approach) What do you
need to be healthy? Understanding HIV as a chronic illness
Knowledge is power Understanding, listening to our bodies Making
Good Nutrition a reality Home Gardens Home Remedies Motivation and
commitment Psycho-Neuro Immunology (PNI) mind, body and soul
POSITIVE LIVING AND NUTRITION
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- Why Positive Living? PL is a good intervention to address
HIV/AIDS mitigation for PLHA and vulnerable HHs. Natural and
crucial precursor to ART and complementary to ART PL is good
practice for affected and infected HHs, most effective in
asymptomatic PLHA PL is relevant to offer different sorts of
support depending on the situation. PL can slow progression from
HIV to symptomatic HIV. POSITIVE LIVING AND NUTRITION
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- Why Nutrition? Good nutrition and clean water helps the body
fight the virus and other infections. Balanced diet includes key
primary and secondary nutrients (and a garden can be full of plants
rich in these nutrients) Prevents and reverses weight loss Promote
efficacy of ARVs
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- Relationship POSITIVE LIVING AND NUTRITION Food insecurity,
HIV/AIDS and Malnutrition negatively reinforce each other to
increasing risk of HIV infection and decreasing ability to support
networks for vulnerable HHs.
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- POSITIVE LIVING AND NUTRITION 1 Primary Nutrients ! Selenium
(with Vitamin E) ! Zinc ! Vitamin A or beta-carotene Secondary
Nutrients > Vitamin B12> Vitamin C > Calcium>
Magnesium
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- Selenium Sea fish and shellfish Sunflower seeds Brazil nuts
Coconut Aloe leaves
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- Zinc Wild spinach, pumpkin and sunflower seeds
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- Vitamin A Carrots, mangos, pumpkin, cassava leaves, papaya,
eggs yolks, sweet potato Fat soluble (need oil) Some foods are
enriched (read the label!)
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- HOME REMEDIES- Amaranthus Natural source of Zinc Will grow in
any soil, drought-resistant Eat as spinach but can be very tough
Seeds can be added to other foods Easy to get and grows almost
everywhere.
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- Bulbinella Squeeze the juice from the leaves directly on
affected area. Good for insect bites Irritated skin Herpes and
shingle blisters.
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- Other medicinal herbs Sour fig: ease itching and skin
irritation conditions and treatment of thrush (oral & vaginal)
Sutherlandia (Lessertia) or Cancer bush: Immune
strengthening/weight loss/diarrhoea. African Potato (Hypoxis):
Immune strengthening stabilizes helper T-cell numbers Garlic:
Natural antibiotic and anti-fungal
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- Conclusion Positive Living encourages individuals to take
control of their health Homestead gardens help even the poorest
households to eat a variety of fresh vegetables and fruits
Homestead gardening can include traditional remedies to help deal
with the symptoms of AIDS. Positive living makes use of traditional
therapy and links well with primary health care and ART (but get
advice!) Information sharing and networking is critical in
improving peoples individual capacity to deal with HIV and
AIDS