Zinc is one of the elements that is present in many foods, even drinking water has a slight concentration of zinc. Although this element is essential in human health, a greater or lesser absorption of zinc is detrimental to health.
A zinc deficit triggers several diseases, as it affects the immune system. Health education programs incorporate adequate zinc to try to reduce morbidity and mortality in relation to the symptoms of childhood HIV.
According to experts, zinc could improve the immunodeficiency of children with AIDS. To do this, they did a study in Africa, where children's AIDS is remarkably present. They administered a daily zinc supplement to a group of children for six months and compared the results with another group that did not have such a supplement. They determined that a zinc supplement helped decrease the infectious complications associated with the disease and, therefore, decrease the mortality of these children.
This measure would lead to an improvement in children although it seems to us that it is momentary, since the disease progresses with time and zinc is not the solution, and if they do not provide these countries with the necessary means to administer these retroviral treatment to these children, of little That zinc supplement will serve.
