HIV/AIDs Farce is getting sickening.

I really feel this is my soapbox to preach on at the moment. I have a passion for the Gambian people and seeing them exposed to such prideful stupidness really hits me hard.

I've posted on this numerous times in these following posts...

Gambian AIDs Cure...
Jammeh's AIDs Cure Condemned
AIDs Patients Blaming Jammeh for Crisis

These posts started all the way back in February 2007 - and President Yaya Jammeh is still claiming to heal AIDs patients, thought it's becoming more and more obvious he's doing much more harm than good.

This article in the Freedom Newspaper on the 9th March shows a reporters first hand look into Jammeh's AIDs ward, somewhere it seems he hasn't visited himself in quite a while. It also outlines some of the suspicion the faculty have for anyone from the outside coming in.

I've cleaned up bits of the writing with [brackets] just cause you'll notice it isn't the highest standard of reportive writing. It may still sound a tad confusing, but you should get the general idea.

Two HIV/AIDS patients were finally expelled even when the women cried and pleaded with those concerned persons to talk to the president not to expel them.
One of the ladies from Brikama cried and said her children would suffer if she leaves the place.

Sources close to the hospital stated that some "toubabs" [white men] went to visit those ladies because they had been friends, during their ailments. Upon visiting them they were later asked to leave the place because they had brought people who do not believe in the president's treatment. But the white people did not have [disproving the treatment] at the back of their minds but only to see their friends that they feel sorry for because each of them have a real pathetic story.

In a separate development, the smell of the hospital is sickening. The stench shows a symbol of people dead and smelling. The place looks clean but the smell is horrible. This reporter could not bear the smell and the horrible site of [those being treated] under the medication.

Some were not looking at all well. Some had stopped taking the western medicine [anti-retroviral drugs] and their conditions have deteriorated. Looking at their situation one would say they need more food and proper medication instead of the concoction given to them. Others believe that the concoction given has created the horrible smell [and] that the President himself has avoided [the ward] for some time now [due to the smell]. The sick there need urgent attention or else the President [will] be burying more patients than he [has previously claimed].

I hope you get the idea that this treatment seems to be slowly killing HIV infected people in The Gambia. And the toubabs (white people... a name I heard quite a bit there) are treated with suspicion anytime they try and help.