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Fake AIDS cures doing the rounds

    JOHANNESBURG

    South Africans were warned at the weekend against remedies supposedly capable of curing people living with HIV and AIDS.

    Pamphlets promoting a bogus AIDS cure at a cost of just US $95 have been circulating in eastern Johannesburg.

    Agence France-Presse quoted Nathan Geffen, spokesman for the AIDS lobby group, Treatment Action Campaign, as saying: "These quacks are feeding off people's confusion about the disease."

    The country has the highest HIV/AIDS caseload in the world, with 5.3 million people, or one in five adults being HIV-positive.

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