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Claim number: 18
Claimant: Comforter's Healing Gift
Claim date: Sept. 13, 2007
Forum in which the claim was made: Informal
Claim methodology: Herbal remedies
Frequency with which the claim is made by this claimant: Frequent
Actual claim: Cures AIDS
Plausibility of this claim: Untested and implausible
Summary
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
Responses
- Response no 38: Treatment Action Campaign Complaint to Director of Public Prosecutions on 2007-10-04