AIDS cure or sick joke by African president?

Amazing if true but very hard to believe.

Patient after patient gave similar statements to CNN. But it was difficult to verify the authenticity of their testimony. The government claims to have scientific evidence, but it did not provide any to CNN.

Jammeh refused to speak to CNN for this report.

CNN also sought medical reports of the HIV/AIDS patients to see whether they are indeed on the mend. The material was not provided. The government would also not release the concoction to CNN for testing.

From my own perspective the claims struck me as identical to the American biotechs who make safety claims yet refuse to release any study details or information regarding the ingredients.

While most drugs do have plant based sources it does seem like an extreme claim and very possible that there is something that mitigates symptoms and nothing more. There again, the situation strikes me as not too different from the corporate giants who treat symptoms with marginally effective, sometimes fatal risks and offer false hope to meet their own objectives. Fen-Phen comes to mind.

Fen-phen became the diet craze of the 1990s when researchers found that when mixed together, two appetite suppressants, fenfluramine and phentermine, caused weight loss. But in the fall of 1997, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration removed fen-phen from the market after it was shown to cause heart defects.

Opportunistic and exploitative policies seem to cross all cultural barriers and it would be nice if we saw this scepticism attached to all claims that are put forth without proof.