For many years, scientists and
researchers across the world have been trying to find a cure for one of
the world’s deadliest virus, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).
Although these scientists say there is yet no cure for HIV and AIDS,
traditional medicine practitioners have made several claims to finding
the cure.
One of them who is generating some buzz on the international scene is the Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh.
He claims to have cured 68 patients who
had HIV/AIDS in varying degrees using his secret concoction of boiled
herbs. In 2007, he first announced that he had found a natural remedy to
cure AIDS, stirring anger among Western medical experts who claimed he
was giving false hope to the sick.
His supposed cure has not been endorsed
by the World Health Organisation and the United Nations. Rather, they
have have said his treatment is alarming mainly because patients are
required to cease their anti-retroviral drugs which makes them more
prone to infection.
But the president said recently that he
has cured the seventh batch of HIV/AIDS patients undergoing his herbal
remedy since the treatments began five years ago.
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