%0 Journal Article %T Prevalence and Factors Associated with the Use of Traditional Medicines among Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Patients in Sokoto, Nigeria %A Karuthan Chinna %A Oche Mansur Oche %A Remi Abiola Oladigbolu %A Umar Abubakar Sadiq %J Archive of "Annals of African Medicine". %D 2018 %R 10.4103/aam.aam_39_17 %X In resource-scarce settings like Nigeria, access to conventional drugs and antiretroviral therapy (ART) is highly limited, hence the resort to use of traditional herbal medicine by a significant number of people living with human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) (PLWHAs). Traditional medicine (TM) continues to provide health coverage for most of the people in developing countries, and it is equally becoming increasingly popular in western countries %K Human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome %K people living with human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome %K Sokoto %K traditional medicine %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6126049/