Tanzanians have been asked to be
inquisitive enough and not lured by few people that a cure drug for AIDS
disease has been discovered an aspect that most sufferers tend to stop using
their normal dose prescribed by health experts and opt for those ones which are
not helpful at all. The concern was issued yesterday in Dodoma by the National
Chairman of Tanzania AIDS Commission Dr. Fatma Mrisho at a press conference at
the offices of the National Council of the People Living with Aids disease
(NACOPHA) She cautioned that, people
should not be easily lured by conmen about the availability of AIDS drug, a
result of which many boycott their prescribed drugs and resort to use drugs
which have not been officially registered. “If there is any discovered drug,
then it is the government which has to announce it and not anyone else,
National
Chairman of Tanzania AIDS Commission Dr. Fatma Mrisho
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therefore issue a warning to people to be careful and shouldn’t accept easily
even to some Christian religious leaders who have been claiming to be curing people
with AIDS disease through prayers” Dr. Mrisho said. Either she said that, AIDS
infections have gone down from 12 percent to 5.1 percent in Mainland Tanzania
and in Zanzibar. “On Tanzania mainland alone the percentage stand at 5.3 but
deaths as related with AIDS disease have reduced by 40 percent”, Dr. Mrisho
asserted. She said the only challenge facing the people is lack of awareness
over the disease which many people have been believing on witchdoctors cure
rather than going to hospitals. On his part, NACOPH’s Chairman Vitalis Makuyala
said that the stigmatization on people living with AIDS is still there although
to some extent it has been reduced to a greater extent. “Stigmatization on AIDS
disease sufferers has been reduced to a greater extent compared to how the
situation was before some years back”, he said adding that, in recent years it
has been noticed that many AIDS sufferers are engaged in various economic
activities.
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