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Gambia News : Gambian President ’cures’ HIV/AIDS patients
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has discharged 23
HIV/AIDS patients who had undergone treatment from him in his native
village of ‘Kanilai’, situated some 120km southeast of Banjul, the
capital, government sources confirmed Tuesday.
At a ceremony held to discharge the
patients who have been declared “cured”, Jammeh advised the men and
women to be on guard against re-infection.
“To be cleared of the virus does not mean that one is immuned, so you have to take care of yourselves,” he charged.
The Gambian leader also lamented the lack of enough
resources as a key factor preventing many other patients from accessing
his treatment programme.
“I wish I can treat 5,000 patients a month, but it is
not possible, because the facility is not there to accommodate all of
you; and secondly, it is very, very e xpensive,” he added.
Controversy
The Gambian leader early 2007 sparked a big controversy
when he claimed to have "discovered a cure for HIV/AIDS" then later,
infertility, among others. He says he has been treating people
suffering from the HIV virus, diabetes and other ailments.
He uses African traditional herbs and other
non-scientific means in his treatment programme which he and his
supporters believe really work. But conventional medical practitioners
and scientists think President Jammeh is only wasting the time of
patients because his so-called cure is not effective.
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