Health of HIV Infected People

Section I: Food and Overview
1. Exercise and rehabilitation: Exercise in the era of HARRT in South Africa; Sonill Sooknunan Maharaj
2. Metabolic Abnormalities in HIV Infected Populations without or with Antiretroviral Therapy (ART); Nazisa Hejazi and Roslee Rajikan
3. Effects of Dietary Fat Intake on AIDS during antiretroviral therapy; Gaurav Paul
4. HIV infection-associated cancer and mycotoxins occurring in food; Gabriel Wcislo
5. Effects of omega-3 fatty acids on body composition and health in HIV/AIDS during HAART therapy; Vijay Karam Singh
6. Diet Modulation of Chronic Inflammation in individuals with AIDS; Lauren Lawson
Section II: Nutrition and Lifestyle
7. A Self-Management Framework to Assess the Need for Nutritional Supplementation in People Living with HIV/AIDS; Walter L. Ellis
8. Influence of nutrition on the human immune-deficiency viral (HIV) infection; Rao H. Prabhala
9. Nutritional Care of the HIV-Infected Child in the US: A Historical and Contemporary Perspective; Rana Chakraborty, Jamila Sheikh and Bridget Wynn
10. Vitamin D and HIV infection: Immunomodulatory and extra-skeletal effects. Prevalence, risk factors and effects of antiretroviral therapy; Miguel Cervero Sr., José Luis Agud and Victoria Alcáza
11. The role of vitamin D in HIV-infection; Vani Gandhi
12. The Relationship of Vitamin D Nutritional Status to Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection; Allen Thomas Griffin
13. Food Is Medicine: The Ryan White Food and Nutrition Services Program as a Model for Comprehensive Food and Nutrition Services in the United States; Alissa Wassung
14. NUTRITIONAL STATUS AND CD4 CELL COUNTS IN PATIENTS WITH HIV/AIDS RECEIVING ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; Ana Celia Oliveira
Section III: Nutritional Issues in HIV/AIDS patients: Focus on Antiretroviral Treated Populations
15. Interactions between anti-retrovirals and natural health products; Christine Hughes, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal Hydrie and Sunita Vohra
16. Directed Acyclic Graphs to Identify

Ronald Ross Watson, PhD, is Professor of Health Promotion Sciences at the University of Arizona, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. Dr. Watson began his research in public health at the Harvard School of Public Health as a Fellow in 1971 doing field work on vaccines in Saudi Arabia. He has done clinical studies in Colombia, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United States which provides a broad international view of public health. He has served in the military reserve hospital for 17 years with extensive training in medical responses to disasters as the chief biochemistry officer of a general hospital, retiring as a Lt. Colonel. He is a distinguished member of several national and international nutrition, immunology, and cancer societies. Dr. Watson's career has involved studying many lifestyle aspects for their uses in health promotion. He has edited over 100 biomedical reference books and 450 papers and chapters. His teaching and research focuses on alcohol, tobacco, and drugs of abuse in heart function and disease in mouse models.