Confessions of a News Junkie

Can natural medicines treat AIDS? There is little, if any evidence to claim that natural alternatives to condoms and anti-retroviral drugs are effective in preventing or treating AIDS. Despite the absence of reductions in AIDS for their populations after applying the the natural alternatives, government leaders in South Africa and Gambia and prophets in Kenya, Uganda, and Nigeria claim that dietary concoctions cure AIDS patients. Health officials are strongly opposed to using natural healing methods in order to reduce AIDS because no objective results prove effectiveness from natural formulas.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/20/health/main2495526.shtml

The good news in Africa is that the distribution of anti-malaria pills and mosquito nets have resulted in reducing malaria cases for children with HIV.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/01/health/01hiv.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/01/health/01malaria.html