So I get an email update from the United Nation Foundation called the UN wire. It has articles about public health, economics, and environmental issues from all over the world. Anyway, I have been following this crazy story about the president of Gambia (Yahya Jammeh). He has claimed that he is curing people of HIV/AIDS with a natural herbal cure. Apparently he goes around to hospitals and give patients herbal potions and rubbing them with and herbal paste. And now he has dismissed the UN official from Gambia ( Fadzai Gwaradzimba) for being criticizing the cure. (You can read the whole article here ). She also warned that this claim may encourage people of West Africa to engage in "risky behaviors". In my opinion the validity of his claims is about equal to saying there is no such thing as a chemical imbalance and that mental illness can be cured with exercise and vitamins.
"And I ask you, Lord, to take this man's hiccups to heal him!" - TV Evangelist
2 comments:
Funny title. Sad story.
I had no idea Tom Cruise was the president of Gambia. But it is indeed a sad story. and maddening that this president is regarded highly enough by his countrymen that they accept his "cure" as real
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