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AFYA™ 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.
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.
| Children 1/2 - 3 years | 1 bar per day |
| Children 4 - 13 years | 2 bars per day |
| Adults | 3 bars per day |
AFYA™ - article from Field Exchange
AFYA™-HBCN Summary report of AFYA™ acceptability study completed in Malawi Lilongwe 2005