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Claims of cure for HIV,
Claims of cure for HIV, Hepatitis C are a ‘scandal’: Egypt presidential =
advisor
Army-made devices that allegedly cure HIV and Hepatitis C have no clear =
scientific basis, says scientific advisor to Egyptian president
Ahram Online, Wednesday 26 Feb 2014
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/95270/Egypt/Politics-/Claims-o=
f-cure-for-HIV,-Hepatitis-C-are-a-scandal-.aspx
Claims by the Egyptian army that it has found a cure for Hepatitis C and HI=
V =
are a “scientific scandal for Egypt,” the president’s scientific advisor ha=
s =
said.
The devices are unconvincing and appear to have no clear scientific basis, =
Essam Heggy told Al-Watan newspaper on Tuesday.
Heggy, who is currently on a visit to the US, said he has papers proving th=
e =
devices are ineffective and he will present them to the president when he =
returns to Egypt next week.
At a press conference on Saturday, army spokesperson Colonel Ahmed Ali said=
: =
=93The armed forces have achieved a scientific breakthrough by inventing =
devices to diagnose and treat Hepatitis C and HIV without taking a blood =
sample from the patient, which gets immediate results at a low cost.”
Heggy said President Adly Mansour and Defence Minister Abdel-Fattah =
El-Sissi – who attended the press conference – did not know the details of =
the announcement in advance and were “surprised” by what they heard.
Heggy said he was not consulted about the announcement and expressed regret =
that Egyptian specialists in Hepatitis C and HIV had not been consulted =
beforehand.
“An issue this sensitive, in my personal opinion, could hurt the image of =
the state,” Heggy said, adding that foreign newspapers could utilise the =
announcement to harm Egypt’s image internationally.
Physician and Major-General Ibrahim Abdel-Atti, the man behind the reported =
scientific breakthroughs, said the HIV and Hepatitis C treatments had a 100 =
percent success rate.
“I started working on this project 22 years ago,” Abdel-Atti said at =
Saturday’s press conference. “It started secretly in the military =
intelligence department but we are now announcing it to the whole world.”
The devices to diagnose Hepatitis C and HIV using electromagnetic waves are =
called C-Fast and I-Fast, while the device to treat HIV and Hepatitis C, as =
well psoriasis, is called the Complete Cure Device (CCD). The CCD will =
supposedly be used publicly in Egypt by June 2014.
A short documentary was displayed at the press conference showing a patient =
who claimed to have been totally cured of AIDS by the device.
Major-General Abdullah Taher, the head of the army’s engineering authority, =
told Al-Ahram Arabic news website that the devices would not be exported =
abroad in order to protect them from “the mafia” of big pharmaceutical =
companies and nations that control the pharmaceutical industry.
A medical source told Ahram Online that the devices had been approved since =
2012, but the treatment device was still being evaluated by the health =
ministry.
In 2011, the defence ministry filed a patent with the World Intellectual =
Property Organisation on the C-Fast device to diagnose Hepatitis C.
Egypt has one of the highest rates of Hepatitis C infections in the world. =
The number of patients reached 8 million in 2008, according to health =
ministry figures, or nearly 10 percent of the population. In some parts of =
Upper Egypt and the Nile Delta infection rates reach 20 percent.
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