Perhaps they will get tired, but a cure is a cure no matter how.
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> Date: 2007/02/21 on PM 09:03:07 CET
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> From: Anthony Loum <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Gambian leader's herbal AIDS 'cure' raises alarms
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> _http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/304497_gambiaaids21.html_
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> Anthony Webster Loum
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> Wednesday, February 21, 2007
> Gambian leader's herbal AIDS 'cure' raises alarms
> By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI
> ASSOCIATED PRESS
> BANJUL, Gambia -- From the pockets of his billowing white robe, Gambia's
> president pulls out a plastic container, closes his eyes in prayer and rubs a
> green herbal paste onto the rib cage of the patient -- a concoction he claims
> is a cure for AIDS. He then tells the man to swallow a bitter yellow drink,
> followed by two bananas.
> "Whatever you do, there are bound to be skeptics, but I can tell you my
> method is foolproof," President Yahya Jammeh told a reporter. "Mine is not an
> argument, mine is a proof. It's a declaration. I can cure AIDS and I will."
> In a continent suffering from the world's worst AIDS epidemic, Jammeh's
> claims of a miracle cure are alarming public health workers already struggling
> against faith-healers dispensing herbal remedies.
> The biggest concern is that the Gambian leader requires patients to cease
> their anti-retroviral drugs, which risks making them even more prone to
> infection, said Dr. Antonio Filipe Jr., head of the World Health Organization in
> Senegal.
> Since January, when he announced his cure to a gathering of foreign
> diplomats, Jammeh has thrown the bureaucratic machinery of this small West African
> country behind the claim. The last six news releases on Gambia's official Web
> site are dedicated to the president's treatment, available to Gambians free of
> charge. Regular radio and TV addresses publicize it and the Health Ministry
> has issued a declaration of support.
> Although the HIV rate is relatively low in Gambia compared with other
> African nations, the president's claim has left international health organizations
> in a bind. Filipe was diplomatic, saying WHO respects the president's point
> of view. But, he added: "As the World Health Organization, we would like to
> state quite clearly the following -- No. 1: so far there is no cure for AIDS."
> Jammeh, 41, says his treatment cannot be mixed with other drugs because "I
> don't want any complications."
> Jammeh has sent blood samples of the first nine patients to a lab in Senegal
> for testing. A letter on the lab's stationery indicates of the nine, four
> had undetectable viral loads, one had a moderate load and three had high loads,
> a result posted on the government's Web site as proof of a cure.
> However, the lab technician who performed the tests warned they are not
> conclusive since the blood samples were only taken after the treatment.
> Waiting for treatment at the presidential compound last week, Jammeh's
> patients said they don't need lab results to tell them they feel better.
> "It feels as if the president took the pain out of my body," said Ousman
> Sowe, 54, who has been under Jammeh's care for nearly a month.
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