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International Journal of Epidemiology 2009 38(3):670-674; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp140
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2009; all rights reserved.

Cochrane Column

Taryn Young

RYTD Consultancy, PO Box 38580, Pinelands, 7430 South Africa.

E-mail: tyoung@rytdconsult.co.za

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

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The aim of the Column is to highlight Cochrane Reviews of relevance to public health, and to stimulate debate on whether reviews are relevant, to developing countries, particularly whether it is feasible to implement them and that they are acceptable to the target groups. This month we consider three Cochrane Reviews that evaluated effects of nutritional interventions on HIV and people being treated for tuberculosis (TB). Jimmy Volmink provides input on the state of the evidence.

The Cochrane Collaboration (http://www.cochrane.org) is an international, non-profit organization that prepares and disseminates up-to-date systematic reviews on the effects of healthcare interventions in order to help people make well-informed decisions. Systematic reviews aim to answer focused healthcare questions by systematically identifying and evaluating all relevant research studies and synthesizing their results.

 

Nutritional support for patients with TB and HIV—state of the evidence

J Volmink

Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa

Malnutrition remains a pervasive problem. The number of people with malnutrition is increasing as the impact of the current economic crisis . . . [Full Text of this Article]

J Irlam1, M E Visser2, N Rollins3 and N Siegfried4

1 Primary Health Care Directorate, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
2 Division of Dietetics, School of Public Health, University of Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
3 Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
4 South African Cochrane Centre, South African Medical Research Council, South Africa.

S Mahlungulu1, L A Grobler2, M E Visser3 and J Volmink4

1 Mahlungulu Foundation, South Africa.
2 Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IIDMM), University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
3 Division of Dietetics, School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
4 Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa.

K Abba1, T D Sudarsanam2, L Grobler3 and J Volmink4

1 International Health Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.
2 Medicine Unit 2, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.
3 Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IIDMM), University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
4 Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa.


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