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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 25, 2006
CHC and the Association of Nutrition Services Agencies (ANSA) have received a two-year, $300,000 grant from The UPS Foundation to conduct a major public education campaign about the importance of food as medicine for people living with HIV/AIDS and other life-threatening illnesses. CHC will sponsor public forums on Capitol Hill and at anti-hunger conferences as part of a multi-year campaign to develop and educate new leaders in Congress about the power of food as medicine. The campaign also seeks to mobilize support from the general public by using national media outlets to publicize research findings. In partnership with the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), America’s Second Harvest, and the Community Food Security Coalition, CHC will work to create educational materials for ANSA affiliates to use in the campaign. This will help
identify food resources that could be tapped from the Food Stamp and the Women,
Infants and Children (WIC) programs and from locally grown produce markets so that those suffering from life-threatening illnesses can improve their nutrition.
CHC and ANSA hosted a “Food as Medicine” workshop on October 10 at the Bridging Borders conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. More than 50 workshop attendees were identified as possible educational outreach partners. More than 900 conference attendees learned about the “Food as Medicine” campaign during the Vancouver conference. ANSA is working to develop and collect outcome measures to demonstrate how the cost of health care can be reduced when critically ill people have access to quality nutrition and nutrition services.
For more information about ANSA and the Food as Medicine Campaign, please visit www.ansanutrition.org
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