Traditional Indian medicine and homeopathy for HIVAIDS a review of the literature 英文参考文献.docVIP

AIDS Research and Therapy BioMedCentral Research Open Access Traditional Indian medicine and homeopathy for HIV/AIDS: a review of the literature M Fritts1, CC Crawford1, D Quibell1, A Gupta2, WB Jonas1, I Coulter*3 and SA Andrade4 Address: 1Samueli Institute, 1737 King Street, Ste. 600 Alexandria, VA 22314, USA, 2Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Center for Clinical Global Health Education, 600 North Wolfe Street, Jefferson 2-127 Baltimore, MD 21287, USA, 3UCLA School of Dentistry, 63-037A CHS, 10833 Le Conte Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA and 4Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, 1830 East Monument Street, Ste. 8074 Baltimore, MD 21287, USA Email: M Fritts - mfritts@; CC Crawford - ccrawford@; D Quibell - deborahquibell@; A Gupta - agupta25@; WB Jonas - wjonas@; I Coulter* - coulter@; SA Andrade - aandrad1@ * Corresponding author Published: 22 December 2008 Received: 14 August 2008 Accepted: 22 December 2008 AIDS Research and Therapy 2008, 5:25 doi:10.1186/1742-6405-5-25 This article is available from: /content/5/1/25 ? 2008 Fritts et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Allopathic practitioners in India are outnumbered by practitioners of traditional Indian medicine and homeopathy (TIMH), which is used by up to two-thirds of its population to help meet primary health care needs, particularly in rural areas. India has an estimated 2.5 million HIV infected persons. However, little is known about TIMH use, safety or efficacy in HIV/AIDS management in India, which has one of the largest indigenous medical systems in the world. The purpose of this review was to assess the quality of peer-reviewed, published li