FIG. 1.
Search strategy. HIV, human immune deficiency virus; CAM, complementary and alternative medicine. 1Databases used: MEDLINE,® EMBASE, CINAHL, Alternative Health Watch, Global Health, EBM Reviews, PsychInfo, Sociological Abstracts, and Health and Sociological Abstracts. 2In four cases, there were two articles published from the same dataset (identified by having the same study sponsor, location and time period of data collection, methodology, and number of study participants). In these cases, the first article published chronologically was selected for inclusion.