Complementary & Alternative Medicine

African patients with HIV seek out herbal remedies

Published in Vaccine Weekly, October 13th, 2004

Jonathan Mwanza was once a powerful man in this rural town, a county councilor and lifetime member of Kenya's former ruling party. His hefty build spoke of wealth and authority.

That was before he contracted HIV. Without access to anti-AIDS drugs, he wasted away, stripped of his weight, his job, his community standing.

Mwanza, 56, then became part of a growing trend among Africans with AIDS: He gave up on government doctors and turned to a traditional healer in search of an herbal remedy.

"When I started taking it, I improved very much," Mwanza said, saying his weight increased from 138 pounds to 154 pounds after 11 months of...

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