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Complementary therapies
Author(s) -
Eastwood Heather
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2001.tb143172.x
Subject(s) - citation , psychology , gerontology , medicine , library science , computer science
Decisions about your health care are important — including decisions about the types of therapy to use. Most health care providers will agree that using complementary (also called alternative or integrative) therapies together with standard medicines can help people living with HIV live longer, healthier lives. Most often, people living with HIV use complementary therapies to ease side effects [3] of HIV drugs, boost their immune systems, or improve their overall health.