Using Yogurt to help HIV Patients
Posted by | Posted in Access to Health, Food for thought, Global Health, HIV/AIDS | Posted on 22-06-2009
This is a fascinating 10 minute interview from PRI’s Global Health and Development Podcast, definitely worth listening too:
- Can Yogurt Slow the Spread of HIV?
- 12 Jun 2009
- Scientist Gregor Reid joins The Takeaway to talk about his work with HIV patients in Africa. He has helped teach a group of ‘yogurt mamas’ in Tanzania how they might serve up disease protection one cup at a time.
- Play:
Quote from the podcast: “We have changed from a human spieces that ate a lot of plant foods to food with essentially no organisms at all because we are so paranoid about getting sick.”
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Interesting work on yogurt. Wonder how much it would cost to deliver or promote as a health intervention?
There seems to be more research recently into the links between a healthy gastrointestinal tract (particularly worm infections) and outcomes including successful HIV treatment, cholera vaccination, and possible immunological response to various vaccines in the perinatal period.