ArticleAIDS and behavior2013
No association found between traditional healer use and delayed antiretroviral initiation in rural Uganda.
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- Reasons for using traditional and complementary care by people living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy and association with interrupted care: a mixed methods study in Eswatini.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2023Article
- Conceptual model for pluralistic healthcare behaviour: results from a qualitative study in southwestern Uganda.BMJ open · 2020Article
- Traditional healers, HIV outcomes, and mortality among people living with HIV in Senegal, West Africa.AIDS (London, England) · 2019Article
- It's not "all in your head": critical knowledge gaps on internalized HIV stigma and a call for integrating social and structural conceptualizations.BMC infectious diseases · 2019Article
- Traditional, complementary and alternative medicine use in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review.BMJ global health · 2018Article
- Engagement of Traditional Healers and Birth Attendants as a Controversial Proposal to Extend the HIV Health Workforce.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2015Review
- Medical pluralism predicts non-ART use among parents in need of ART: a community survey in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.AIDS and behavior · 2015Article
- Changing use of traditional healthcare amongst those dying of HIV related disease and TB in rural South Africa from 2003 - 2011: a retrospective cohort study.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2014Article
- Symptomatic HIV-positive persons in rural Mozambique who first consult a traditional healer have delays in HIV testing: a cross-sectional study.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2014Article
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Abstract
Traditional healer and/or spiritual counselor (TH/SC) use has been associated with delays in HIV testing. We examined HIV-infected individuals in southwestern Uganda to test the hypothesis that TH/SC use was also associated with lower CD4 counts at antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation. Approximately 450 individuals initiating ART through an HIV/AIDS clinic at the Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) were recruited to participate. Patients were predominantly female, ranged in age from 18 to 75, and had a median CD4 count of 130. TH/SC use was not associated with lower CD4 cell count, but age and quality-of-life physical health summary score were associated with CD4 cell count at initiation while asset index was negatively associated with CD4 count at ART initiation. These findings suggest that TH/SC use does not delay initiation of ART.
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