Armenicum AIDS Drug Marches Forward

Rememebr Armenicum? There are so many rumors about it that it's hard to know where the truth begins. Basically, it is a supposedly-successful anti-HIV/AIDS treatment that was created in Armenia. You can learn more about it on Armenicum's Web Site.

Armenicum has now been registered in Ukraine and Russia and is pending registration in China.

Recently, Iranian scientists claimed that it was an effective cure against AIDS.

Six years ago, the BBC did an investigative piece on the drug and found that it made things worse, instead. Then again, that was apparently before proper trials were conducted in Armenia.

Source: Yerevan.ru (translated)

The Growth of HIV/AIDS in Armenia

Is there a country out there that can escape HIV/AIDS statistics?

...the officially registered number of people with HIV/AIDS by the end of December last year rose to 429. Last year alone 66 news cases of HIV were registered. The bulk of HIV carriers-76 percent, are men between 20-29. Also nine children with HIV were registered. Most infection comes about through the intravenous injection of drugs (52 percent) and through heterosexual contacts (43 percent).

Since 1988 99 people, of whom 18 women and three children, have died of AIDS.

Other independent estimates put the overall number of HIV/AIDS carriers at about 3,000 people.

Yikes! Armenia has to do something about this, whether a public ad campaign of the dangers, the promotion of contraceptives, or free testing for those who may not even be aware and inadvertently pass it on to others.

Source: ArmenPress