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SUNTOU TOURAY <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:24:26 +0000
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fellow folks here. a friend of mine involve in some goodwill work in our country sent me an email about two weeks ago. i couldn't help but alert brothers and sisters that, there is a worry that our country's HIV situation is under reported and some form of cover-up is happening out there. my friend is not a Gambian but has been going to the Gambia for donkey years, she is well-grounded in matter likes this. the reason for contacting me was initially to inform me about an Islamic website, she is not a Muslim but interested in matters of health.  i hope our good news paper editors can do a good job of investigating this case. also if any fellow is working for MRC, please tip off our papers to expose the mess.  
 
here is the email.
 
Hi, a website I find interesting - are you aware of it?
http://www.islamicmedicine.org/views.htm#cir
 
There is some good reading on HIV, but it is under circumcision. It is simply medical reading even for an accountant!
 
Last weekend I was with a Gambian lady who is visiting for UK two months. She has a female doctor friend in MRC. There conversation went something like this "you see those people lined up there, they are HIV/AIDS patients waiting for their medication, when they die they are registered as dying from Malaria. They don't want the family to know so we just put it down as malaria," I just knew this was happening and have never trusted the given percentage figures of HIV/AIDS. I have written vastly about stigma in Africa & can understand it from that point of view. But...
 
For years I have gone deep into websites attempting to find the flaw that tells me the truth about HIV in The Gambia - but you truly cannot get past  estimated figures & mostly dated 2003. 
 
I see that Yaya has shifted his powers to infertility treatment, only speaking of women.  Has no-one told him that men suffer from infertility also and in some African countries the male has a higher percentage of infertility than women.  I have spent many interesting hours this week sifting thru websites on infertility.
 
Teenagers & young couples are crying out for truthful information about there 'bodies & life'  who is going to speak out to them truthfully to alleviate this frustration? 
These partially educated people who are mostly unemployed are like timebombs waiting to go off!  Instead they have to listen to a tyrant spilling out untruths to the uneducated and fearful about his supernatural powers - when all he has been doing is using the same plant for all diseases.
 
I know he is a good herbalist and has been since about twenty years old. I have no problem at all with herbal medicine.  
Well, I was only meaning to highlight the above website to you but unfortunately went a little further, apologies.
Have a good weekend with the beautiful family.
 
Kindest regards,

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