TY - JOUR AU - Mee, Paul AU - Wagner, Ryan G. AU - Gómez-Olivé, Francesc Xavier AU - Kabudula, Chodziwadziwa AU - Kahn, Kathleen AU - Madhavan, Sangeetha AU - Collinson, Mark AU - Byass, Peter AU - Tollman, Stephen M. PY - 2014 DA - 2014/12/17 TI - 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 JO - BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine SP - 504 VL - 14 IS - 1 AB - In 2011 there were 5.5 million HIV infected people in South Africa and 71% of those requiring antiretroviral therapy (ART) received it. The effective integration of traditional medical practitioners and biomedical providers in HIV prevention and care has been demonstrated. However concerns remain that the use of traditional treatments for HIV-related disease may lead to pharmacokinetic interactions between herbal remedies and ART drugs and delay ART initiation. Here we analyse the changing prevalence and determinants of traditional healthcare use amongst those dying of HIV-related disease, pulmonary tuberculosis and other causes in a rural South African community between 2003 and 2011. ART was made available in this area in the latter part of this period. SN - 1472-6882 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6882-14-504 DO - 10.1186/1472-6882-14-504 ID - Mee2014 ER -