The Positive Nutrition Program, a project of AIDS NB and the Health & Wellness Committee, will be executed in three ways: Nutrition and Health Workshops, a revised and bilingual edition of The Positive Gourmet Cookbook and an expansion of the AIDS NB Grocery Voucher Program. This is a wonderful opportunity for Persons Living WIth HIV/AIDS (PLWHIV/AIDS) throughout New Brunswick to get involved, network, learn more about self-care and a healthy lifestyle.

For more information please contact positivenutrition@aidsnb.com or visit www.aidsnb.com/pnp

The Positive Nutrition Project seeks to:

Increase the knowledge of PLWHIV/AIDS’ and caregivers surrounding health promoting nutritional choices for PLWHIV/AIDS’ and the consequences of malnutrition on the efficacy of anti-retroviral treatments;

Conduct at least one Health and Nutrition workshop in every region of the province and two in the three metropolitan areas of Fredericton, Moncton and Saint John;

Reduce the financial burden of healthy eating for PLWHIV/AIDS’ in New Brunswick;

Provide peer supported safe environments for PLWHIV/AIDS’;

Contribute to the development of a peer-support network, thereby mitigating the isolation felt by many PLWHIV/AIDS’;

Create a health nutrition-based resource that may be shared with other ASOs;

Reach a significant portion of the over 300 PLWHIV/AIDS’ in the province of New Brunswick.