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| Claim # | Claimant | Claim date | Forum | Type | Condition ↓ | Plausibility | Responses | Description |
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| 4 | HIVEX | Dec. 14, 2010 | Website and Timeslive article | Treats | AIDS | Untested and implausible | 4 | |
| 5 | Rath Health Foundation | Nov. 30, 2004 | Advert in Mail & Guardian | Treats | AIDS | Untested and implausible | 1 |
Matthias Rath and Anthony Brink placed adverts in the Mail & Guardian and several other newspapers in which they claimed that vitamins reverse the course of AIDS and that antiretrovirals ...
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| 6 | Aconite Medical Suppliers (Revivo) | May 18, 2007 | Website | Treats | AIDS | Untested and implausible | 0 |
Aconite Medical Suppliers made claims on the website www.revivotea.co.za that herbal supplement Revivo works as a treatment for HIV. A consumer complaint was lodged by Mr. Patrick Linzer to ASASA. ... Read more |
| 7 | Gogo's Traditional Medicines (GTM) (Bantam Tonic and Pisces Tonic) | June 6, 2008 | Advert in Sowetan Newspaper | Treats | AIDS | Untested and implausible | 2 |
The advertisement posted by Gogo's Traditional Medicines (GTM) was for two products: Bantam Tonic, which GTM claims increases CD4 count, and Pisces Tonic, which is said to guard against opportunistic ...
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| 8 | Solid Rock Church | April 28, 2010 | Advert in Northcliffe/Melville Times | Cures | AIDS | Untested and implausible | 2 |
The Newspaper Advert posted by Solid Rock Church stated, inter alia: “Bring the blind, the lame, Aids and cancer victims 43 Crutches! 25 Walking sticks! 2 White canes from blind ...
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| 9 | Damaansa Holdings Ltd. (Faith Drops) | April 1, 2010 | Website | Treats | AIDS | Untested and implausible | 2 |
TAC lodged a consumer complaint against Damaansa Holdings’ Internet advertisements promoting “FaithTM” Drops. The advertisements (which were published at http://immune-booster.synthasite.com and www.cancercure.co.za) claim that patients with illnesses including, Malaria, AIDS, ...
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| 11 | Zeblon Gwala (Ubhejane) | Dec. 6, 2007 | Advert in Ilanga Newspaper | Cures | AIDS | Untested and implausible | 3 |
Zeblon Gwala advertised Ubhejane as an AIDS cure
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| 12 | Prof. Billy's AIDS Clinic | June 6, 2008 | Advert in Roodepoort Record | Cures | AIDS | Untested and implausible | 2 |
Prof. Billy placed an advert in the paper, stating inter alia: “Stop Suffering in Silence. There is now a cure for Aids! Call Prof Billy Kariaga Ph.D or call Sister ...
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| 15 | Homeopathy for Health in Africa | Feb. 11, 2011 | Website | Treats | AIDS | Tests are disputed or inconclusive | 0 |
The website states, inter alia: “Homoeopathy works by stimulating and enhancing the immune system and therefore it is precisely in this disease(AIDS) that homoeopathy can be most effective”. It also ...
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| 16 | Kalahari Moshaweng Health Center | Feb. 19, 2010 | Online PDF | Treats | AIDS | Untested and implausible | 2 |
TAC received information that the Kalahari Moshaweng Health Center in Kuruman, Northern Cape, was providing homeopathic and naturopathic supplements to patients with TB and/or HIV under the supervision of MD ...
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| 17 | Mr. Peter Michael von Maltitz | March 15, 2010 | Website | Cures | AIDS | Tests are disputed or inconclusive | 1 |
It was brought to TAC's attention that Von Maltitz claims to have discovered a cure for HIV/AIDS. He is operating from a facility run by Catholic Welfare in Masiphumelele, Fish ...
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| 18 | Comforter's Healing Gift | Sept. 13, 2007 | Informal | Cures | AIDS | Untested and implausible | 1 |
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 ...
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| 19 | Westco International (#119) | Feb. 16, 2011 | E-mail and Google Advertisements | Cures | AIDS | Untested and implausible | 0 |
The e-mail and google advertisements posted by Luis Reichman advertise a product called #119 as a cure for AIDS. The advertisements and e-mails state, inter alia: "The 119 does encapsulate ...
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| 20 | Secomet (Ithemba Lesizwe) | Oct. 1, 2006 | Website | Treats | AIDS | Tests are disputed or inconclusive | 1 |
The Stellenbosch-based manufacturer of Secomet V claimed it lowered the viral load of HIV positive patients. However, Secomet V (marketed as “Ithemba Lesizwe” or hope of the nation) has never ...
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| 28 | HIVEX | Jan. 19, 2011 | Times Live | Treats | AIDS | Untested and implausible | 0 | |
| 30 | Apostle Shada Mishe (AMBUSH) | Feb. 1, 2011 | Website | Cures | AIDS | Untested and implausible | 0 |
The advertisements claim that the product AMBUSH cures AIDS. View the YoutTube advertisement at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V53D1w_Po
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| 34 | Imuniti Holdings Ltd (Imuniti Nutritional Supplement Combo (INSC)) | March 23, 2011 | Statement to JSE | Treats | AIDS | Implausible | 0 |
Imuniti Holdings claims that its product treats HIV in a press statement aimed at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
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| 36 | Abha Light | May 2, 2011 | Website | Treats | AIDS | Untested and implausible | 0 |
Abha Light claims to treat HIV and Elephantiasis in Nairobi, Kenya, using homeopathic remedies.
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| 37 | The Global Natural Healthcare Trust | May 2, 2011 | Website | Treats | AIDS | Untested and implausible | 0 |
This UK funded charity runs a clinic in Orange Farm near Johannesburg in which they treat people with HIV using herbal remedies.
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| 38 | Dr Boxall's | May 10, 2011 | Flyer | Treats | AIDS | Untested | 2 |
Dr Boxall's claims that Sutherlandia Frutescans boosts immunity in people with AIDS
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