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Uganda: Minister's Comment On HIV/Aids and Prayer Careless

The Health Minister Christine Ondoa's remarks that HIV/Aids can be cured through prayer have not been received well by both health practitioners and born-again preachers who called it careless and misleading remarks.

Published
02 August 2011
From
Daily Monitor
Bad science and bogus treatments
Philippines warns against geckos as AIDS treatment

The Philippines warned Friday against using geckos to treat AIDS and impotence, saying the folkloric practice in parts of Asia may put patients at risk. Environmental officials have also expressed alarm about the growing trade in the wall-climbing lizards in the Philippines. An 11-ounce (300-gram) gecko reportedly sells for at least 50,000 pesos ($1,160).

Published
15 July 2011
From
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Complementary therapies
UK: The faith healers who claim they can cure cancer and HIV

A group of faith healers who claim they have miracle cures for cancer and HIV have been condemned as "irresponsible, even criminal" by a professor of complementary medicine, following a BBC Newsnight investigation.

Published
29 June 2011
From
BBC Newsnight (video)
Albinos in Tanzania murdered or raped as AIDS "cure"

Hundreds of albinos are thought to have been killed for black magic purposes in Tanzania and albino girls are being raped because of a belief they offer a cure for AIDS, a Canadian rights group said on Thursday.

Published
06 May 2011
From
Reuters
HIV treatment
TANZANIA: Authorities urge caution on popular "cure-all" herb

As thousands of people flock to the north of Tanzania in search of a popular herbal "miracle" cure, authorities are urging HIV-positive people to continue taking their antiretroviral medication.

Published
04 April 2011
From
IRIN Plus News
Complementary therapies
UK: Herbal medicine to be regulated

Herbal and Chinese medicine practitioners will be allowed to continue trading under Government plans to side-step a European ban on unlicensed treatments.

Published
16 February 2011
From
Daily Telegraph
HIV treatment
Ex-Arusha clergyman claims discovery of HIV/Aids cure

This influential priest broke the news before a group of Maasai traditional leaders, Laigwanan, telling them the treatment was revealed to him by God in a dream. The invention has stirred controversy and fear among government officials.

Published
19 December 2010
From
IPPmedia
Social and legal issues
Tanzania: Faith Healing becoming a major business

Many people living with HIV-Aids have been losing their lives because of shunning formal medical services in favor of miraculous healings through prayers, a medical expert has said.

Published
13 December 2010
From
All Africa
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Community Consensus Statement on Access to HIV Treatment and its Use for Prevention

Together, we can make it happen

We can end HIV soon if people have equal access to HIV drugs as treatment and as PrEP, and have free choice over whether to take them.

Launched today, the Community Consensus Statement is a basic set of principles aimed at making sure that happens.

The Community Consensus Statement is a joint initiative of AVAC, EATG, MSMGF, GNP+, HIV i-Base, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, ITPC and NAM/aidsmap
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