HERBAL PRODUCTS FOR THE CHEMOTHERAPY OF HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS (HIV) INFECTION

Pneumocystis carinii

pneumonia

in five previously healthy homosexual men in Los Angeles and of

Kaposi’s sarcoma

in 26 previously healthy homosexual men in New York and Los Angeles. Within months, the disease became recognized in male and female injection drug users (IDUs), and, soon thereafter, in

recipients of blood transfusions

and in

hemophiliacs.