There is a certain ‘Java Herbal Pill’ which claims “to help HIV/AIDS sufferers get their CD4 back to normal number through a few weeks use. This depend on the condition of their HIV/AIDS phase and if the sufferers also have had any opportunistic reactions.”

This herbal medicine comes in powder, pill, and liquid forms, and promises to “kill the virus in human being body safely within a very brief period. Progress can be seen in 20 – 30 days (with regular usage of the right dose). Sufferers will need to have 10 to 15 pills, three times daily after or before meals.”

Scientists and health authorities have warned that patients put their lives and health at risk by seeking cures in clinics that dot ‘Asia and sub-Saharan Africa offering ineffective remedies for serious illnesses.’

Consequently, British scientists have lodged an urgent appeal to the World Health Organization (WHO) to publicly announce the ineffectiveness of homeopathy as a treatment for serious diseases like HIV, TB, and malaria. It has been noted that patients die after attempting to be cured through homeopathic means instead of doctor-prescribed conventional medicines.

Based on WHO statistics, 33 million people had been infected with the HIV virus by end of 2007. Out of this number, 2 million died of AIDS, including 270,000 children. Two-thirds of the world’s HIV-infected people are located in sub-Saharan Africa. As for malaria, 247 million cases of malaria were recorded in 2006, with nearly 1 million deaths. It is said that ‘a child dies of the disease every 30 seconds.’

With such a dire health scenario, patients all over the world need to be educated on the real issues with homeopathy that patients opt for because of the relatively cheaper prices of its medications. Homeopathic medicines may be equated with placebos as their preparation involves the repeated diluting process with the use of water ‘until there is no trace left of the original compound.’

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Via guardian.co.uk