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    A database that tracks dubious medical claims.


    Claimant: Comforter's Healing Gift

    Type: Retailing Company

    Claims and Responses

    • Claim no 18: Comforter's Healing Gift Cures AIDS made on 2007-09-13 - Untested and implausible

      Comforter’s Healing Gift, a South African com produces an extract of a plant called sonneblom (not sunflower). According to Freddie Isaacs, the inventor of the treatment and a co-director of the

      • Response no 38: Treatment Action Campaign Complaint to Director of Public Prosecutions on 2007-10-04

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