HIV\AIDS on the increase in region…as 2 confirm being cured by herbal medicine

The Volta Region Coordinator of HIV\AIDS Programmes, Mr. Gregory Amenuvegbe, has expressed concern about the increasing rate, at which the HIV\AIDS is being spread in the region, and stressed the need for an attitudinal change towards the fight against the disease.

According to him, in 2007, the counseling and testing (CT), to detect the HIV status of people, recorded 1,083, out of which 401 were male, and 682 were female, noting that prevention from mother to child transmission (PMTCT), the same year, also recorded 223 cases.

Mr. Amenuvegbe disclosed that January to March this year, recorded 81 cases of (PMTCT), and a total of 431 cases of (CT), were recorded between the same period, out of which 149 were female.

He continued that currently, 313 HIV patients were on drugs, but failed to adhere to control measures in administering the drugs, noting that the control and administration of the drugs was difficult, due to the fact that AIDS patients, after knowing their status and being put on the drugs, register under a false identity, whenever they visit health facilities in the region.

In a related development, two women, Madam Joyce Fiagbe and Abla Amenuvor, have made a passionate appeal to the government, to support traditional herbal medicine practitioners, to help provide the needed assistance in health delivery in the country.

The two made the appeal, in an interview with The Chronicle, after they openly testified on a local radio station, Volta Star in Ho, that they were once AIDS patients, but were cured at the Hope for Life Herbal Clinic in Ho, and said they decided to go public, to inform Ghanaians and the world, that AIDS could be cured through herbal medicine.

Madam Fiagbe said she resides in Accra, and was diagnosed two and a half years ago at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, and read in The Chronicle that a traditional medicine practitioner was curing AIDS, so she decided to try it, noting that after six months of applications of herbal preparations from the Hope for Life Clinic, she went back to Korle-Bu for further tests, which proved to be negative.

She explained that her husband died a year after she went in for the test, and said she strongly believed that he died of AIDS, adding that if they had known earlier, of the herbal cure for AIDS, her husband would not have died.

Ms. Abla Amenuvor said she was diagnosed with AIDS about a year ago, and got cured at the same herbal clinic after four months of application of herbal preparations, and noted that people who were not suffering from AIDS, would not regard traditional medicine as capable of curing the disease, and urged all AIDS patients to visit the herbal center, to get themselves freed from the scourge, saying, “ I was once an AIDS patient, but now I am free,” and asked the youth to protect themselves from being infected.

The Managing Director of the Hope for Life Clinic, Mr. Agbesi Deglo, assured the public that hygienic methods were adopted in the preparation of the herbal medicine, and again said, even though orthodox medicine could not cure AIDS, traditional medicine was being used to cure the disease.