Page 17 - Presentations - Campaign

What we saw…

• A small study of 62 patients from Senegal living with AIDS (1999) was given

only herbal therapy for 6 months in a research center in Fatick, Senegal.

• After 6 months viral loads went down and T cell counts went up.

• In the Summer of 2018 a group from Morehouse School of Medicine and

Meharry Medical College re-visited 13 of the original patients.

• Repeat viral loads and CD4 T cell counts were done.

• Ten of the 13 patients had undetectable viral loads the other 3 patients had

very low levels (3000; after more than 15 years with NO therapy)

• How can short-term treatment cause a long-term suppression of

virus?

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