Mchape: a wake-up call for AIDS control programs in Africa (a case history for Malawi)

Article Abstract:

Reports of a herbal remedy for AIDS have swept through the sub-Saharan African state of Malawi, sending thousands of people to take the herbal cure, known locally as mchape and advertised by a Christian part-time healer Mr. Chisupe. Among those to try the herbal AIDS cure was the head of the Chitipa District AIDS office, a theater nurse responsible for the Malawi AIDS program. The popularity of mchape has been encouraged by the fear and frustration of those at most risk of AIDS: the African middle-class. The popularity of mchape forced a refocusing of Malawi's various AIDS programs.

Medicine, Herbal, Herbal medicine, Malawi

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The "best proven therapeutic method" standard in clinical trials in technologically developing countries

Article Abstract:

Placebo-controlled trials on HIV patients to prevent perinatal transmission of HIV infection in a developing country can be considered ethically correct whenever these trials conform with the medical standards of the concerned country. Since the clinical trials of HIV patients are in accordance with international biomedical research standards as well as with the prevailing standard therapy of the developing country where the trials occurred, no ethical violation has been perpetrated. Furthermore, the trials may have yielded positive results which can prove helpful in fighting AIDS.

Health aspects, Care and treatment, Clinical trials, Ethical aspects, AIDS patients, Human experimentation in medicine, Human medical experimentation, Placebos

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Social norms and the evolution of drug regulation in the U.S.: implications for access to medications for HIV disease

Article Abstract:

Issues are discussed regarding the influence of the sociopolitical determinants of prescription drug use on access to anti-HIV drugs. These societal determinants are believed to affect how individuals use the drugs.

United States, Drugs

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