Traditional & Alternative Medicine

The AIDS pandemic remains a global threat. Ever since the case of the Berlin Patient who was cured aft er a bone marrow transplant, there is intense interest in developing a cure for HIV. A patient tested HIV positive aft er a routine voluntary counselling and testing. Her CD4 cell count was 528 cells/μL. She took a concoction for 12 weeks and her CD4 cell count rose to 1120 cells/μL. Viral load was undetectable, antibody tests were negative but DNA test remained positive aft er 14 weeks. Th e remarkable rise of CD4 cell count, undetectable virus and negative antibody tests without use of anti-retroviral drugs, is a proof of functional cure.