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Herbal use for AIDSNairobi: Champions of traditional medicine told a major conference on AIDS in Africa that they had much to contribute to the war against the devastating epidemic. Speakers at the International Confernce on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa calaimed two herbal remedies were safeer and cheaper alternatives to the anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs used to treat people living with HIV and AIDS. Of about 30 million people living with HIV and AIDS in Africa, only about 1% of them currently have access to anti-retrovirals, and as dramatically falling prices are set to increase that propotion, there is much debates about whether the continent's health-care infrestructure is up to the job of proper and sustained delivery of the drugs. "We have tested, and we have seen that it works well," Erick Gbodossou, the president of the Senagal-based Prometra, and association of traditional healers, said of Metrafaids, a treatment made from five plants. A three-year study, funded by the Ford Foundation, of the treatment was conducted using modern scientific observation methods. According to Prometra, traila on 62 HIV-positive individuala ages 18 to 58 over the last four years showed that Metrafaids reduced the presence of the HIV virus in the body and boosted CD4 lymphocites, and important element of the immune system. "We think that this medicine deserves to be supported, because it can help in this battle, in this reality that'sgoing to exterminate this continent," Mr. Gbodossou said, adding that no adverse side effects had been recorded. <strong>Source: Bangkok Post, September 24, 2003 posted by Prawate on Thursday, February 19, 2004 |
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