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How to use AFYA™ TB & HIV food

Afya TB & HIV foodAFYA™ must only be eaten as a food supplement. AFYA™ can be used both at home for HIV infected persons or in clinics during medical treatment of HIV/AIDS and TB patients.

AFYA™ can be eaten as a biscuit straight from the package, or crumbled into water and eaten as a porridge.

To make a porridge use 2dl of boiled lukewarm drinking water per food bar.

If eaten dry, make sure drinking water is available. Patients with low appetite and/or infections in the mouth should eat many and small meals (1 tablet) throughout the day.

Distribution

AFYA™ must be eaten as a supplement to ordinary food and not as a replacement.

Three bars per day will procure adults a full RDA of vitamins and the important micro-minerals in addition to 35g of high quality protein and approximately 840 kcal of energy.

Recommendations

Children 1/2 - 3 years 1 bar per day
Children 4 - 13 years 2 bars per day
Adults 3 bars per day

AFYA™ product description

AFYA™ acceptability study in Malawi