Conclusion
The history of homoeopathic successes in treating infectious disease epidemics, the research supporting the immunemodulatory effects of homoeopathic medicines, and the clinical research on HIV+ patients indicating beneficial response to homoeopathic medicines, should command attention by physicians, scientists, and public health officials. Despite the evidence, it is both surprising and depressing that homoeopathic medicine has been consistently ignored as a competent part of a comprehensive program in treating AIDS patients.
Homoeopathy is not the only alternative that is being ignored by the frontier AIDS organizations. Even though a large number of people with AIDS, especially long-term survivors, are taking one or more alternative treatments, there is hardly any data recorded on their use or success. Until AIDS activists, concerned lay people, and open-minded health professionals start insisting that research on alternatives be performed, the potentially valuable therapies will continue to be ignored, and the AIDS epidemic will continue to devastate our society. When these alternative therapies are integrated within a comprehensive program, which includes public health measures that seek to prevent infection, the AIDS epidemic will finally begin to recede.
By V.K. Pandey
