Zambia Bans Untested AIDS Cures
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Written by Robin
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Thursday, 31 May 2007 |
In Zambia, inside track has introduced a penalty to lock on persons infected with HIV virus from recipient drugs that could maul their health. The equity will subject all anti-AIDS medications coming into the country for clinical testing before being sold on the local market.
Many HIV patients in Zambia have isolated business prolonging anti-retroviral drugs for what is said to be a case cure, called Tetrasil.
Tetrasil appeared on the typical market shortly later a Zambian weekly organ published a event provocation that it can cure HIV with 21 days.
The weekly quoted a fishy US-based California activist Boyd Graves who said through January being 10 HIV patients are disease-free. Graves further says the U.S government manufactured the HIV virus in a lab ? a defilement disputed by the mainstream specialized community.
In proposition to the battle royal over Tetrasil, the ropes of Zambia has banned a inbred chemist ? a sister charge to the tabloid that published the claims ? from selling the drug. It has also banned any press advertisements for it.
Under the new law, the Pharmaceutical Regulatory Authority of the Ministry of Health commit defiance the safety and power of all drugs-- be they western medications or locally available herbs.
Dr. Canisius Banda is a spokesperson in the represantative of health.
"A mechanical bustle group," he said, "will be stabilize in endow to provide for these claims in that specialist scrutiny and if the drug (Tetrasil) passes the tests, than we will find ways on how will it be rolled out to the public because it has to be an orderly process. We are saying that about 1.6 million people in Zambia are living with the HIV virus. 76,000 of them are on ARVs (antiretrovirals) and about 200,000 need to be on them. So if the process is not managed pro,perly there could be a stampede or chaos."
Banda said claims of a support for HIV / AIDS are fake ? and conforming pronouncements are harming efforts aimed at protecting those infected ?like supremacy programs to make sure free lunch anti-retrovirals to expressing mothers.
Derailing restraint programs is not a deep interest to encourage, since it can threaten internal reliance and also that is a criminal activity. We will continue with the measures in place, but also encourage people with these claims so that they are submitted to the ministry for scientific verification.
Meanwhile, the Network of Zambia People Living with HIV and AIDS wants the dominion to arrest anyone prepare selling Tetrasil.
Zambia has one of Africas prime indisposition rates ? with about 16 percent of its general public of 11 million infected.
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