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Momodou
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 Posted - 08 Feb 2007 : 00:27:44
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Foroyaa Editorial
DOES HIV/AIDS HAVE A CURE?
THE CONTROVERSY LOOMS
Gambia has now become the focus of world public opinion because of the current claim that HIV/AIDS patients are being treated by President Jammeh.
Diseases are enemies to human kind. Every effort must be made to wipe them from the face of the earth. What is important is for a scientific approach to be taken to come to a definite conclusion as to whether HIV/AIDS can be cured or not.
First and foremost, a laboratory test is necessary to confirm that a patient is infected with HIV/AIDS.
Since the Gambia is now the focus of world public opinion The Gambian authorities should now involve the MRC and the WHO in the whole process of identifying those infected with HIV/AIDS, monitor their blood samples as they acquire treatment and inform the world if the blood samples no longer indicate any infection after treatment.
The integrity of the programmes of the National AIDS Secretariat is at stake. The whole world is also observing the situation. Scientific methods should be utilised to study, validate or invalidate claims of HIV/AIDS cure.
This is a very urgent enterprise. Foroyaa will keep the Nation informed of all attempts to reach a conclusion on the debate.
We hope that the World Health Community will put an end to the speculation and create a programme that will enable them to assess all the claims and state the facts as they are.
Is President Jammeh helping HIV/AIDS patients to live better as patients or is he curing them? The world needs an answer. The World Health Organisation needs to give the world an answer.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issue
Issue No. 015/2007, 7-8 February, 2007
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