WHO encourages the treatment of AIDS and tuberculosis with homeopathy
Doctors are calling on the World Health Organization to publicly condemn the use of homeopathic remedies for the treatment of serious diseases. The international community "The Voice of Young Science Network", which unites young doctors and scientists, has sent a corresponding letter to WHO.
In their letter, the young researchers urge to fight against the advertising of homeopathic treatments for diseases such as AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, influenza and neonatal diarrhea. According to scientists, for the treatment of these diseases, it is necessary to use only those drugs whose effectiveness has been proven by research, and the unjustified use of untested homeopathic remedies leads to the death of patients.
WHO cooperates with some organizations promoting homeopathy and other methods of alternative medicine. According to British researchers in Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Ghana and Botswana, there are similar programs for the treatment of patients with AIDS, malaria or influenza.
According to Daniella Muallem, a biophysicist from University College London, who signed the letter, the WHO position on homeopathy has not been determined. Daniella added that an organization whose work is based on evidence-based medicine methods should not support unconfirmed methods of treating serious diseases. WHO representatives declined to comment on the letter received.
According to WHO, there were 32 million HIV patients worldwide at the end of 2007. More than two million people, 270 thousand of whom are children, die from AIDS every year. Two-thirds of cases are observed in the countries of central and southern Africa. About a million patients died from malaria in 2006.
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