Poor Gambia! Whatever happened to "Yaya Jammeh accused of Aids subterfuge"?

It just had to be "Gambia" -  a whole nation being accused of lying.

Regards,

Kabir.



On 4/26/07, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Gambia accused of Aids subterfuge
>
> Sarah Boseley
> Thursday April 26, 2007
> The Guardian
>
> One of Africa's leading Aids specialists has accused the Gambian
> government of covertly obtaining blood tests from his laboratory to try to
> convince the world of the efficacy of the Gambian president's herbal remedy
> for the disease.
> Since January, President Yahya Jammeh has been treating people with HIV in
> the compound of the presidential palace with his herbal rubs and drinks,
> which he claims are a cure. To the alarm of the International Aids Society,
> which represents doctors and others fighting HIV/Aids around the world, his
> patients have stopped taking antiretroviral drugs.
>
> Yesterday, Souleymane Mboup, from the University of Dakar in Senegal and a
> leading figure in the IAS, alleged that the Gambian authorities had used
> subterfuge to get blood samples from the president's patients tested in his
> lab. The president claimed this year that tests had proved that his remedy
> worked.
> That was wrong, said Professor Mboup. "The interpretation by the Gambian
> authorities of the results of HIV antibody and viral-load testing on blood
> samples sent to my laboratory is incorrect," he said.
>
> "The results were obtained under false pretences, when a technician
> approached us asking for training on our equipment because he had problems
> operating the equipment in his laboratory. We agreed, and in this process,
> he asked us to test some anonymous samples, which we later learned were from
> patients who had received President Jammeh's treatment. Of those samples
> that were HIV-positive (66.66%), none could be described as cured."
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