WHO warns against homeopathic treatment

ASTANA. August 21. KAZINFORM People with conditions such as HIV, TB and malaria should not rely on homeopathic treatments, the World Health Organization has warned, according to BBC.

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; BBC reported.

 The group Voice of Young Science Network has written to health ministers to set out the WHO view. WHO TB experts said homeopathy had "no place" in treatment of the disease.

In a letter to the WHO in June, the medics from the UK and Africa said: "We are calling on the WHO to condemn the promotion of homeopathy for treating TB, infant diarrhoea, influenza, malaria and HIV. "Homeopathy does not protect people from, or treat, these diseases.

"Those of us working with the most rural and impoverished people of the world already struggle to deliver the medical help that is needed. "When homeopathy stands in place of effective treatment, lives are lost."

 Source: www.news.bbc.co.uk