L'introduction de plantes médicinales dans le traitement de l'infection à VIH : une approche réussie au Burkina Faso

摘要

The research and development of traditional anti HIV/AIDS medications is a complex process, which involves many challenges. This process includes preclinical and clinical trials as well as an industrial evaluation, with the eventual marketing of medicine meeting the established quality, safety and therapeutic efficacy standards. Although numerous African plants have already been through preclinical evaluation/trials with encouraging results, to date there have been insufficient comparative clinical trials. Nevertheless, there have been encouraging developments, such as those in Burkina Faso, where two medicines have been developed which recently successfully completed Phase II clinical trials, and especially through the identification of medicinal plants that can have a negative reaction with antiretroviral therapies, with the support of the WHO’s Regional Office for Africa.