Pastor arrested for giving fake HIV cure

 

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Fake Pastors in Africa have made their congregation do a lot of things that the world  could not believe including eating grass and even drinking petrol. Oh and the miracle making baby pastor Adeya scam too

A new case believes he can cure HIV.Police in Zimbabwe raided the offices of the religious leader who said he had developed a cure for HIV, Aids and cancer, the state-owned Herald newspaper reports.

Walter Magaya, who heads the Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries, said on Sunday that a herb, called aguma, could destroy the HIV virus.

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His announcement caused a backlash, the Herald says.

“As you continue to take the aguma, you start to see your CD4 count disappearing until you become HIV negative,” the New ZImbabwe website quotes him as telling a congregation.

Information Minister Energy Mutodi confirmed the raid on Twitter saying samples of aguma were seized adding that “there is no cure yet” for HIV.

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Doctors today have no trouble keeping HIV under control in people who are infected, thanks to antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, which stop the virus from replicating once it finds its way inside healthy cells. If it is not making more copies of itself, HIV cannot spread to infect new cells. That translates into healthier, longer lives for people who are HIV-positive.

Yet as powerful as the current drug treatments are, they need to be taken daily to keep the virus suppressed, and they can’t actually rid the body of infected cells. For self-preservation, some HIV does not actively pump out more copies of itself, but instead lies dormant inside certain immune cells.

“The drugs are remarkably good at stopping the virus from replicating,” says Dr. Robert Siliciano, professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who first identified these sleeping virus reservoirs. “The problem is that there is also a form of HIV that is not replicating and is latent, that is not affected by the drugs and not seen by the immune system.” These are the viruses that come roaring back when people stop taking their medications, or take them erratically.

But in the latest report presented this month at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston, researchers revealed the strongest evidence yet that these latent viruses can be activated and eliminated, at least in animals.

In a study involving a form of HIV that infects monkeys, Dr. Dan Barouch and his colleagues at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School showed that a drug that stimulates the immune system and activates the dormant HIV, combined with a powerful antibody that can neutralize the HIV-infected cells, prevented HIV from surging back in five of 11 animals, six months after they stopped taking ARVs.

In the monkeys whose HIV did return, the virus levels were 100 times lower than they were in animals that were not treated at all.

There is no cure for HIV buts scientists may be getting closer. Perhaps little more faith will do.

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