Cure for AIDS? Medicine man says he can cure AIDS

Local healers in Abuja, Nigeria believe to have discovered a cure for AIDS. CNN's Christian Purefoy reports.

By Christian Purefoy Fri February 6, 2009
CNN- http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/02/06/nigeria.medicine/index.html

ABUJA, Nigeria (CNN) -- The small room captured the smells from the wild assortment of herbs, barks and powders scattered in bags at the feet of the local medicine man.

Using the little available light, Baba Chukuri mixed together half a-cup of water, several crushed roots, and passed it to a woman who had come to him for medical treatment.

She drank the mixture and cringed at the bitter taste.

Baba Chukuri is one of many traditional healers across Nigeria offering treatments to hundreds of people daily for a variety of illnesses.

Many of these illnesses include scientifically incurable diseases like AIDS.

"My grandfather was a hunter," he explains, "we used to collect herbs together and he would show me how to make the recipes."

There is no scientific basis to Chukuri's claims but speaking in his Hausa language, he explained how he charges less money than hospitals, so local people can afford him.

"But also people trust me because they see my medicine works," he says.

Seventy percent of Nigeria's population live on less than a dollar a day, forcing many people to come to local healers like Chukuri for affordable treatment.

But with the second highest number of AIDS cases in the world, "bogus" cures for diseases like AIDS are also big business in Nigeria.

However, Nigeria's Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development -- or NIPRD -- are now testing Chukuri's, and other healers, claims.

Dr Yemi Kunle from NIPRD's department of Traditional Medicine believes traditional healers can become allies in the fight against AIDS and other diseases.

"They work with a variety of medicinal plants and these plants serve as leads when we want to develop new products in orthodox medicine," the young doctor explains.

Dr Kunle and NIPRD are testing hundreds of roots and herbs used in traditional medicine from across Nigeria.

NIPRD have developed a sickle cell treatment -- NICOSAN -- in 2000, and earlier this year released a treatment for diabetes.

In their modern labs and herbal gardens they are now working on a variety of treatments for tuberculosis, malaria, and immune boosters against AIDS.

"On HIV, we've screened over 100 medicinal plants, out of which 10, 12, have seen a great deal of activity as anti-viral agent," explained Dr Uford Inyang -- NIPRD's jovial Director General.

Inyang believes the global herbal market to be worth up to $5 billion. If any of the treatments are found to work, the local healers can receive up to 10 percent of the profits in royalties.

None of Chukuri's treatments have yet been scientifically proven to work.

But claiming over a hundred year's of healing tradition in his family, scientists hope the elderly man and his experience will help lead them through the thousands of possible herbal varieties in Nigeria -- to a possible cure.

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[pro5431]

haha sometimes i just think cnn do these videos to make fun of them lol

[gellieuno45]

The cure for aids is FIRE! And lots of it...

[classicalguss]

Ok so, did anyone got cured? Why the hell do such reports from CNN come without giving what the true results have been?? Was there actualy concrete evidence that this man cured HIV? No! At least not on this video, and if it didn't address it in this video, then it probably never happened. Just because he charges less than ACTUAL doctor and hes not white, doesn't make him a nice person. He is grabbing money by lying to people just like all fake Doctors do.

[Greygor1234567890]

@lmarr07

Your worldview is so limited and small I'm sure to you "white people" are the reason (excuse you use) you and your people are oppressed. But to use a term so broad as "white people"and "they" shows how truly ignorant (uneducated of the facts) you really are. Do what ever it takes to get an education, work as hard as you can to learn and strive to find answers, otherwise your doomed and so is your next generation. Big corporations do horrible things no doubt but dnt say its WHITE PEOPLE

[lmarr07]

@Greygor1234567890 You are ignorant to the fact that whites dominate.....and they do it on purpose, get over it bigdog. This aint about your feelings or self esteem, this is how the world is. White people are in control of almost everything, they do what they want. Now im ignorant because I recognize this situation? Do you honestly believe AIDS came from my Africans people putting their penis inside of animals? No AiDS is man made, by elitist whites. And Im ignorant?...

[Greygor1234567890]

@lmarr07

Throughout history, mankind has faced one all powerful hurdle above all else and that's IGNORANCE. Whether ignorance of facts, lack of education, or indoctrination into groups who do your thinking for you, ignorance is the absolute enemy of mankind. Ignorance grows into greed, envy, hatred, racism and untold wars. The things you wrote in your reply are so ignorant, they're unbelievable, and yet you believe them. Those who spread ignorance are equal to any disease, their effects kill 2

[lmarr07]

@Greygor1234567890 his question says white people bcuz white people are the ones who invented the disease in the first place, white people, the owners of all the medicine corperations make money from all these man made diseases. But this doesnt mean ALL white people, are like that. Whether you like it or not, race is a factor when it comes to AIDS and the cure. Ethnic extermination is real. Population control is real. White people would not want this to go national They are all powerful

[dfslay]

10%?!?!?! smh

[Greygor1234567890]

@Mr205BoSs

Yes.....ALL white people on the whole planet are against people being cured of a horrible disease, what kind of thoughtless and racist question is this? People are good or bad in their hearts and minds NOT their skin color.

[Mr205BoSs]

is it true white people wouldnt like this to go national??