Unravelling the Food-Health Nexus to Build Healthier Food Systems.

The urgent call to transform global food systems is well founded on the need to reduce the effects of food systems on human health, environment, peoples' rights, and creation of a just society. Unhealthy diets contribute significantly to the global disease burden and pose huge risks to morbidity and mortality. Efforts to transform diets are highly dependent on transformation of the food system.

AIDS, drought, and child malnutrition in southern Africa.

Objective: To investigate trends in child malnutrition in six countries in southern Africa, in relation to the HIV epidemic and drought in crop years 2001/2 and 2002/3.

Design: Epidemiological analysis of sub-national and national surveys with related data.

Setting: Data from Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe, compiled and analysed under UNICEF auspices.