Publications

using herbs.	in tanzania, the tanga aids working group (tawg) encourages traditional healers and biomedical health workers to work together to improve hiv prevention and care. it is active in three regional towns and provides care for over 400 people living with aids. its services include pretest and posttest counseling. it also dispenses traditional medicines and biomedicines for the treatment of opportunistic infections symptoms. tawg is also involved in researching potentially useful herbal remedies. ...	1999	12296174
[aids in tanzania].	the world health organization has announced that within 3 years 10% of tanzania's population of 26 million will be infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (hiv). but there is some faint hope in the research of tanzanian traditional medicine. an almost 90-year-man, waziri mrisho, is credited with having treated aids patients successfully with herbs that strengthen the immune system. margaret nakamya was stricken by the symptoms of aids in march 1990. she was referred to waziri and star ...	1993	8499187