Developments:

Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh claims to have found a cure for AIDS. "I can treat asthma and HIV/AIDS," he told foreign diplomats in January. "Within three days the person should be tested again and I can tell you that he/she will be negative." Jammeh's cure uses herbal medicines whose identity must for now be kept secret. The international HIV/AIDS community is up in arms, seeing in Jammeh's actions alarming parallels with the South African government's "beetroot and garlic" stance on AIDS treatment, which may have led to millions of deaths.