Do you think there truly is a cure for AIDs?

links being difficult with my computer so I’ll just post some thoughts in the mean time.

theoretically speaking, there is a cure for everything. Whether it’s a chemical, antibody, or through nano technology or what have you.

some of the more “sci-fi” sounded medical advancements include self regenerating organs(teams are looking at 2021), regrowing limbs like certain reptiles, or artificial limbs that fuse directly to bone and operate by brain signals(not far off, maybe in a few years even), so I think eventually, we should have something for many, if not most, of our most feared medical ailments.

but in terms of your posted article, I think, like usual, it needs to be researched formally more. The problem is that there are thousands of these traditional healers in africa, who all claim in one way or another to be able to cure AIDS, it’s very difficult to sift through the garbage and discern the usual BS from something that might actually have some legs under it.

ON A HOT SUNDAY EVENING, IN A MANIOC field near the village of Gboto in the small West African nation of Togo, a group of men in city clothes rustle through the brush, periodically stopping to look at bits of uncovered root. At the center of the group stands a stout, gray-haired man in an embroidered African shirt, giving directions. He doesn’t seem to be finding what he’s looking for. He stops to finger a bush with wide leaves.

“This is called ahonto,” he says. “It’s good for renal problems.” But it isn’t the plant he needs.

A few dozen yards further on, he pushes into a thicket and motions toward one of his companions, a muscular field hand carrying a machete. The field hand thrusts his machete into the ground, digs until he encounters a root, and then begins to slice away at it. It takes a few minutes of brisk whacking before he comes up with a length of smooth, tan tuber. The man in the embroidered shirt holds it up, examines it, and nods.

“This is hetsi,” he says with satisfaction.

The man in the embroidered shirt is Dr. Kokou Coco Toudji-Bandje, an African healer who concocts herbal remedies for a variety of ailments. One of these remedies is something he calls Tobacoak’s. He believes it is a “natural antiretroviral.” More specifically, he says Tobacoak’s “destroys HIV in the blood.” Over the past ten years, Toudji-Bandje has used Tobacoak’s to treat over three thousand AIDS patients. Most of them, he says, have gotten better—and some have been completely cured.

Toudji-Bandje is not the only herbal healer in Africa who claims the ability to cure AIDS, but he is one of the best known. Patients fly from as far away as Congo to see him. He has a large air- conditioned villa-cum-office in Togo’s capital city, Lomé. He has a Mercedes and a white Toyota van. According to a few other doctors who have looked into his finances, he has tremendous amounts of money. The one thing Toudji-Bandje does not actually have is an M.D., but he doesn’t seem to miss it much.

(From article, I am not claiming to have written this, and the information inside was not presented of recorded by me)

Thats pretty much all i wanted to be read from the article.

My next questions is, even if this is true, should it be implemented? IMO the world is about at capacity; should we take on methods of population control?

No. Just because some wealthy non-doctor claims his patients have been cured of AIDS due to a root doesn’t make it even a little bit true. How much does he charge patients for his “cure” I wonder?

There are people in Africa and other places who believe that having sex with a virgin will cure AIDS. Certainly doesn’t mean it’s true.

They also believe you can get aids from sitting next to people and wearing condoms. But lets not jump the gun on the whole quick to judge thing there just because some people are ill informed.

PLUS, that wasn’t even my question, so you still lose. Do you think there is a cure for AIDs, organic or synthetic.

Seriously, this is how you conduct yourself @kibaxcheza ?

I answered your question. Read your own question; not just the topic but the details too. I answered it. So sorry it’s not exactly what you were looking for.

Have a good one.

Yes its called condoms aka safe sex

oops sorry didnt read the article

i can act childish, yes; but it saves me from looking like a snob.

all you said was that he is a quack, then asked how much he charges.

If it didnt work at all do you think he would be that successful? If microsoft didnt add a GUI interface to the command prompt or Dos, do you think Bill Gates would have billions of dollars? You didnt answer my question for (Exploit Deleted), you just assumed there was absolutely nothing to it and passed it off as nothing more than a fairy tale, or a blatant lie.

I believe it’s nothing more than a fairy tale or a blatant lie.

There are plenty of rich quacks out there.

And there is reasonable doubt to make one question it. If you think logically about it, there are many holes in both points of view. So maybe I am a little unclear in my question. So please, allow me to ask you again.

Using this article as a sort of example. Do you feel that there is a simple organic, or purely synthetic cure to AIDs? The only thing that is exempt from this question would be things like the 112th element, where they were made in a lab once and have yet to be seen again, or have been recorded to work once of twice.

There are drugs which currently allow people to live reasonably normative lives if they remain compliant with medical instruction.

There is no current cure, although there is ongoing research on a possible future vaccine.

Here is the link to the U.S. Patent office for the cure for AIDS. I’m not saying that it works, but someone out there patented this idea. It involves using silver ions. One does begin to wonder why the FDA has such a problem with colloidal silver.

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5676977.PN.&OS=PN/5676977&RS=PN/5676977

No question in my mind-the question is when.

@Darbio16 because silver is a precious medal…. why throw away money for life?