Tropical medicine within the Cambodia context:Cambodian health care systems,Khmer medicine,and HIV/AIDS therapy

摘要

This paper examines the history of health care in Cambodia and focuses on the role of traditional healers and their response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic,the use of medicinal plants and their bioscientific importance in this tropical country.In conclusion,vital to the management of HIV/AIDS in tropical countries such as Cambodia is the cooperation and collaboration between traditional healers and Western trained medical doctors.Beliefs underlying the cause of HIV/AIDS,divination,cultural-emotional factors,standardization of training,and medicinal packaging and distribution are a few starting points for future discussion.