Advertisements for AIDS cure in suburban trains in Mumbai

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Dear Friends,

The suburban trains in Mumbai often carry advertisements claiming cures for

AIDS. These days we see ads pasted inside the compartments from the " HAKH

Foundation " - a unani company that sells what it claims are anti-HIV

medications.

The claims they make On their website (www.hakh.org ) state that their

medications can be taken and then stopped after 1,2,3,4 years the person will

still have undetectable levels of HIV using PCR testing.

Has anyone in the AIDS community followed this up? Is making claims

without back-up documentation legal?

I understand that " Fair Pharma " was stopped from selling its purported

anti-HIV drug by the court. Rumour has it that its founder has built a

luxurious villa named " Virus " on the profits of " Immuno QR " .

We meet so many brothers and sisters with HIV who have spend much on

such medications - with promises of complete cures.

And yet at the end of the day the promise evaporates. I have yet to see a

peddler of such cures attend one of the cremations of their 'patients.'

Yours with concern,

Andi Eicher

Jeevan Sahara Kendra, Thane

E-MAIL: <andi@...>