The Intersection of Sexual Health and Traditional Medicine

Description

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Join HIV physician and herbalist Emiliano Lemus for a session on the use of traditional medicine to strengthen our approaches to HIV and STI prevention and care. Emiliano will review the scope and safety of integrative medicine, from both biomedical evidence and traditional wisdom perspectives. In an interactive discussion, we will examine the importance of engaging traditional medicine in working with populations most impacted by HIV, as well as in whole-person care in HIV and STI prevention and treatment. Specific medicinal herbs will be presented as examples throughout the presentation.

Objectives

•  Explain how traditional medicine can be an effective tool to engage patients vulnerable to HIV and other STIs.
• Describe the utility of traditional medicine, alongside biomedical medicine, in the prevention and treatment of HIV and other STIs, as well as maintaining long-term health in patients utilizing pharmaceutical prevention and treatment methods.

Speaker

Emiliano Lemus (they/él), MD, MS, AAHIVS

For inquiry, contact [email protected]