| Title: | Complementary therapy |
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| Author: | --- |
| Mediagroup: | journal article |
| Publisher: | --- |
| Zeitschrift: | Positively Aware: the Monthly Journal of the Test Positive Aware Network |
| Jahr: | 1998 |
| Band: | 9 |
| Heft: | 5 |
| Seiten: | 23 |
| Language: | English; englisch |
| Abstract: | In developing countries with little access to antiviral therapy, there is evidence that counseling and adopting a health lifestyle may delay the progression of AIDS. In India, some doctors have reported that of 460 persons counseled on lifestyle, 85 percent had CD4 counts over 500. The lifestyle changes included maintaining a positive attitude, yoga, adhering to a balanced vegetarian diet with vitamin supplementation, minimum medication use, and not using tobacco. It is noted that these "treatment" methods are not considered alternative medicine, since they are the main source of treatment in some developing countries. |