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Developments:
South African HIV/AIDS Myths Part Two: There is growing interest among Kwa-Zulu Natal's increasingly desperate population in a new device that uses electromagnetic radiation to limit HIV's ability to damage the immune system. Local company Hivex, which is promoting the technology, is funding the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal to carry out clinical trials on 360 HIV-infected patients. As with immune boosters (see part one of this series posted on May 6), the 'treatment' is expensive and there is no evidence that it has any positive effect - scientists at the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies are confident, moreover, that none will emerge.
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