Alternative treatment modalities in human immunodefidency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome

Abstract

Historically, individuals infected with human immunodeficiency virus or those with acquired immune deficiency syndrome have used alternative treatment modalities for the management of their diseases. Using alternative medicine was often their only option, especially when no effective pharmaceutical regimens were available. Even with the advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy, the use of alternative therapies continues, paralleling the huge increase of its use in the general population.