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AIDS subterfuge

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 (IAS), which represents doctors and others fighting HIV/AIDS around the world, his patients have stopped taking antiretroviral drugs. On Wednesday, 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. —

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