Saturday, May 06, 2006

Uganda: Patients Protest Ban on Honey-Based ‘AIDS Cure’

Khomeini Clients Petition President Museveni on Ban
The New Vision (Uganda), 5/5/2006

KHOMEINI clients have petitioned president Yoweri Museveni, protesting the ban of the drug, which is said to cure AIDS, writes Madinah Tebajjukira…

The 76 petitioners requested the president to give Prof. Sheik Allahgholi Elahi, the proprietor of the Khomeini drug, an opportunity to explain how his medicine works.

They also demanded that the government subsidises the poor to access the medicine…

The government recently put a ban on the Khomeini drug after experts said the drug, which had been on sale since 2000 at sh3m, was made of honey and olive oil. Elahi, an Iranian, was arrested and charged…

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