The most acclaimed success of this approach is the Academic Model for Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS (AMPATH) in western Kenya, initiated in 2002. The project provides fresh food, grown on AMPATH’s production farms, to vulnerable patients on antiretroviral regimens (Byron, Gillespie & Nangami, 2006). While the intervention has resulted in weight gain, recovery of physical strength and ability to resume labour among beneficiaries, food distribution does not address long-term food security of HIV/AIDS-affected households in a sustainable way. It is now time for development agencies to move a step further and support food production by HIV/AIDSaffected households. To this end development agencies should create a functional linkage between farming and food security, and the response to impacts on HIV/AIDS-affected households.