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eCAM Advance Access published online on March 15, 2007
eCAM, doi:10.1093/ecam/nem018
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© 2007 The Author(s).
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Knowledge and Attitudes about HIV/AIDS among Homoeopathic Practitioners and Educators in India

Adeline Nyamathi1, Vijay Pal Singh2, Ann Lowe1, Anil Khurana2, Divya Taneja2, Sheba George3 and John L. Fahey4

1School of Nursing, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA, 2Central Council for Research in Homeopathy, Delhi, India, 3Research Centers in Minority Institutions, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science and 4UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California

This study is designed to assess AIDS knowledge among Homeopathy educators and physicians in India, which has not been evaluated previously. India now has the largest number of HIV infected persons worldwide, with an estimated cumulative 5.1 million infections. Homeopathy is the dominant system among the nationally-recognized alternative or complementary systems of medicine, which collectively provide health care to around 600 million people in India. Homeopathy, with its holistic and patient-centered approach, has a wide reach to people at risk of contracting human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Participants were 68 homeopathy physicians (34 educators and 34 practitioners) who completed a CDC questionnaire measuring HIV/AIDS Knowledge regarding AIDS. This study reports the current level of knowledge of, and attitudes about, HIV/AIDS among homeopathy educators and practitioners. These findings will assist in the development of an education module to equip homeopathic health care personnel to impart accurate AIDS information and prevention counseling to their patients in an efficient manner.

Keywords: Education – HIV/AIDS – homeopathy – India

For reprints and all correspondence: Adeline Nyamathi, ANP, PhD, FAAN, UCLA, School of Nursing, Room 2-250, Factor Building, Box 951720, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1702, USA. Tel: +(310) 825-8405; Fax: (310) 206-7433; E-mail: anyamath{at}sonnet.ucla.edu

Received October 10, 2006; accepted January 16, 2007


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