Health service funding is being stopped for some of the UK's homoeopathic hospitals, following an active campaign by doctors and scientists. Does this signal the beginning of the end of homoeopathy on the UK's National Health Service? Udani Samarasekera reports.Homoeopaths in the UK have been feeling under pressure lately. Unfortunately for them, however, the cause of their anxiety is not a heavy workload but an active campaign against homoeopathy, particularly its availability in the UK's National Health Service (NHS). Over the past 2 years, journalists, doctors, and scientists, who point to the lack of evidence for the effectiveness of homoeopathy, have publicly voiced their criticisms.The latest subject to irk antihomoeopathy campaigners is a symposium on the role of homoeopathy in HIV/AIDS treatment that is taking place in London on Dec 1, organised by the Society of Homeopaths—the largest organisation representing lay homoeopaths in Europe. “The symposium will be looking at different methods and approaches that appear to be having some success in helping with the symptoms of HIV/AIDS”, say the organisers. Michael Baum, professor emeritus of surgery at University College London and frequent critic of homoeopathy, thinks that homoeopaths are getting over-confident. “People say homoeopathy cannot do any harm but when it is being promoted for HIV then there is a serious problem”, he says...