No doubt, researchers all round the world are failing repeatedly in spooring out an effective remedy to fight HIV/AIDS while Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh proudly claims to have found an effective remedy to fight this deadly disease. Strangely enough, the style he uses while prescribing this drugs to AIDS patients is quite interesting. He closes his eyes in prayer, rubs a green herbal paste on to the ribcage of his patient, and then orders AIDS patients to have draught of bitter yellow drug, followed by two bananas.
Commenting on the skeptical attitude being meted out to his so-called AIDS drug, President avers:
Whatever you do there are bound to be sceptics, but I can tell you my method is foolproof. Mine is not an argument, mine is a proof. It’s a declaration. I can cure AIDS and I will.
Interestingly, President is not all alone while defending his claims, as some HIV patients are also there to support him. Supporting such claims of the President Mr. Ousman Sowe, 54, who was diagnosed for HIV in 1996 says:
It feels as if the president took the pain out of my body.
Harping upon the same string, Lamin Ceesay, thin from a nine-year battle with HIV, remarks:
My appetite has come back and I have gained weight.
These quotes of HIV patients show that people are finding this so-called medicine effective in fighting HIV/AIDS. May be this medicine is effective and may not be. Therefore, commenting in favor and against this so-called medicine would not be right because it would just make this controversy more intricate.
Don’t you think if researchers try to pull out its efficacy in the light of scientific principles then it would easier to uncover the truth? Because irrational use of this drug can also be detrimental as the experts exhibit their concern stating that taking president’s prescribed anti-retroviral drugs may be harmful, since doing so can weaken the body’s immune system, making the patient prone to infection.
Image credit: State House
Via: MSNBC
