The NGO Ratson is working with the UN's World Food Programme to teach urban gardening to people with HIV, under the WFP's Urban HIV and Aids Programme as part of the Ethiopian government's national plan for universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and care. (..) Tizita Yemane, head of the WFP's HIV and Aids programme in the Debre Zeit area, explains why the WFP – normally associated with delivering humanitarian relief on a large scale – is involved in such a scheme. "Those infected have problems ingesting," she said. "It is important for them to have decent food. Medicine without food is nothing, and it takes six months for people to get back to normal nutritional status."