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Deadly Chagas affects millions and needs attention, but calling it new HIV is a publicity stunt

Earlier this week, the medical community was rocked with the release of an editorial that called Chagas disease "The New HIV/AIDS of the Americas." But is that true?

Published
02 June 2012
From
U.S. News & World Report
Women
South Africa: Girl brides abducted as fabled HIV cure

Complicating the matter is a chilling, modern belief, as Nombasa explains: "There is a myth that if you sleep with a young girl who is a virgin and as a man you are HIV positive then HIV can be cured. That is why they are focusing on these young girls.

Published
28 May 2012
From
CNN
Religion and faith
Zambia: ‘HIV healer’ claims lands Lusaka pastor in trouble

KC Dennis Chibuye from the Treatment Advocacy and Literacy Campaign (TALC) on why he went undercover to investigate a pastor claiming to be able to heal people of HIV.

Published
18 May 2012
From
Key Correspondents
Bad science and bogus treatments
HIV: Zimbabwean Senator wants women to dress shabbily, bath less

WOMEN must bath occasionally, shave-off their hair, dress shabbily and get circumcised to make them less attractive to men, a Senator has proposed during a conference on HIV. Morgan Femai, the MDC-T senator for Chikomo, said his bizarre prescription was necessary to help curb the spread of HIV/AIDS because men were finding it difficult to resist attractive and well-dressed women.

Published
13 May 2012
From
New Zimbabwe
Bad science and bogus treatments
Gambia’s President Jammeh: A Man With Magical Hands

In 2007, President Jammeh told local journalists and foreign dignitaries that he has found cure for one of the world’s killer diseases such as HIV/Aids, hypertension, asthma and tuberculosis.

Published
22 March 2012
From
Jollofnews
Bad science and bogus treatments
Inquiry launched over AIDS contrarian's teaching

The University of Florence has launched an inquiry into the teaching activities of an academic who assisted on a course that denies the causal link between HIV and AIDS, and supervised students with dissertations on the same topic.

Published
20 March 2012
From
Nature
Bad science and bogus treatments
Uganda: Government and doctors insist circumcision reduces HIV spread

Local HIV/Aids researchers and the medical fraternity have dismissed the findings of a new research that questions the effectiveness of male circumcision in curtailing the spread of HIV virus. A cross section of medical practitioners interviewed yesterday said they would disregard the findings in latest issue of the Journal of Law and Medicine also published in Thomson Reuters Australia, saying the new research appears intended to frustrate efforts to combat HIV/Aids.

Published
08 March 2012
From
Daily Monitor
Religion and faith
Ethiopians Trade Holy Water for AIDS Drugs

Many HIV-Positive Residents Come to Squatter's Camp for Traditional Cure, Stay for Antiretrovirals, as Death Toll Declines

Published
06 March 2012
From
Wall Street Journal
Bad science and bogus treatments
Death by denial: The campaigners who continue to deny HIV causes Aids

As each of their followers dies, those who campaign against HIV treatments simply move on to the next level of denial.

Published
21 February 2012
From
The Guardian
Bad science and bogus treatments
Uganda: Three Held Over Defective Drugs

A month after two ladies were arrested for selling fake ARVs, three people are in custody for allegedly selling drugs that were phased out of the country under the World Health Organisation's directive.

Published
09 February 2012
From
AllAfrica
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