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Conference Coverage (XI Int Conf on AIDS)

Alternative Treatment Use High In California

Published in AIDS Weekly, July 22nd, 1996

Most HIV positive Californians use alternative treatments without telling their medical care providers.

Rebecca Collins of RAND, Santa Monica, California, discussed her poster entitled "Use of Alternative Treatments for HIV: Patterns and Correlates" at the XI International Conference on AIDS, held July 7-12, 1996, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Collins et al. surveyed 140 HIV positive people through the University of California San Diego Neurobehavioral Research Center. Seventy-six percent of their sample reported use of alternative therapies in the past six months without the knowledge of their primary physician. Fourteen percent had...

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