Zimbabwe recruits witch doctor fraudsters to help fight AIDS

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Modemac - 14 Jan 2008 12:15 GMT

Zimbabwe draws up an official list of witch doctors who claim to be
able to cure AIDS:

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=84&art_id=nw20080114105518719C861299

The sad part is, it's not to protect people from frauds...but rather,
to get a list of practitioners to help the country reduce its AIDS
infection rate. Then again, this is the same country where
dictator...errr, President Robert Mugabe fell hook, line, and sinker
for a scam artist who claimed to be able to magically conjure up
refined diesel oil from rocks.

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polar bear - 14 Jan 2008 12:27 GMT

> Zimbabwe draws up an official list of witch doctors who claim to be
> able to cure AIDS:
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> for a scam artist who claimed to be able to magically conjure up
> refined diesel oil from rocks.

Give that man a kilt and a balmoral! He's up there with Idi Amin.

pb

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drceephd@insightbb.com - 14 Jan 2008 17:08 GMT

> > Zimbabwe draws up an official list of witch doctors who claim to be
> > able to cure AIDS:
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>
> pb

AIDS in Africa is not what AIDS in the US is. In Africa the diagnosis
is based upon four symptoms: fever, diarrhea, weight loss, and TB. No
lab tests are needed. Any natural healer that can properly treat
these symptoms should be successful. Basically provide clean water,
sunshine, fresh air, proper nutrition, and rest and the body will
heal. No poisons or poisoning allowed with pharmaceutical drugs.

What the authorities may be doing is constructing a list of healers to
purge in the future. These dupes may be signing up to be killed.

DrCee

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jcon - 14 Jan 2008 22:42 GMT

On Jan 14, 11:08 am, drcee...@insightbb.com wrote:

> > > Zimbabwe draws up an official list of witch doctors who claim to be
> > > able to cure AIDS:
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> is based upon four symptoms: fever, diarrhea, weight loss, and TB. No
> lab tests are needed.

Hmmm... Let me guess. Did you get that from Ann Coulter by
any chance?

The figure of merit in the article is CD4 counts in HIV infected
people.

Both of those are lab tests.

-jc

> Any natural healer that can properly treat
> these symptoms should be successful. Basically provide clean water,
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
>
> DrCee

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just john - 14 Jan 2008 22:52 GMT

On 01/14/2008 05:42 PM, jcon told the world:

> Hmmm... Let me guess. Did you get that from Ann Coulter by
> any chance?

Man, if only I had a dime for every time I heard that question asked in
relation to AIDS in Africa.

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