Medical Doctors Warn On Use On Homeopathy
Medical
Doctors have warned that people with conditions such
as HIV, TB and malaria should not rely on
homeopathic treatments. .
It was responding to calls from young researchers
who fear the promotion of homeopathy in the
developing world could put people's lives at risk.
Three medical
doctors, Dr Nick Beeching of the Royal Liverpool
University Hospital, Dr. Robert Hagan, a researcher
in bimolecular science at the University of St
Andrews and a member of Voice of Young Science
Network, and Dr. Mario Raviglione, director of the
Stop TB department at the WHO said there was no
objective evidence that homeopathy has any effect on
infections.
Dr. Mario
Raviglione, director of the Stop TB department at
the WHO, said evidence-based WHO TB
treatment/management guidelines, as well as the
International Standards of Tuberculosis Care did not
recommend use of homeopathy.
The doctors had
also complained that homeopathy was being promoted
as a treatment for diarrhea in children.
In a letter to the World Health Organization in
June, the medics from the UK and Africa called on
the Organization to condemn the promotion of
homeopathy for the treatment of infant diarrhoea,
influenza, malaria and HIV as Homeopathy did not
protect people from, or treat diseases.
They argued that
when homeopathy stands in place of effective
treatment, lives are lost.
But a spokesman
for the WHO department of child and adolescent
health and development said the Organization found
no evidence to date that homeopathy would bring any
benefit.
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