Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Swaziland: AIDS toll leads to flood of bogus "miracle" cures
Published in AIDS Weekly, January 19th, 2004
"In a blink of an eye, it seems, Swazis have gone from deep denial of the existence of AIDS to panic as they realize all the people they are burying are not dying of witchcraft. The plethora of AIDS 'cures' is a product of that," AIDS activist Thembi Dlamini told the UN Integrated Regional Information Networks.
According to press reports, the supplier of one "AIDS vaccine" in pill form, manufactured in Thailand, is providing the Swazi army with the drug, although there is no proof of its...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (2004-01-19)
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