Survivors file suit against ex-Gambian leader over alleged HIV 'cure'

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Survivors file suit against ex-Gambian leader over alleged HIV 'cure'
Associated Press

DAKAR, Senegal –  Three survivors of a supposed HIV treatment program run by Gambia's former leader Yahya Jammeh featuring what he called an herbal remedy "cure" filed a lawsuit Thursday against him, claiming they suffered under the forced regimen.

This is the first time Jammeh has been sued in a Gambian court over alleged abuses during his 22-year rule of this tiny West African nation, the advocacy group AIDS-Free World said.

Jammeh's program was "the most egregious premeditated assault on people living with HIV and AIDS in the history of the global AIDS crisis," said Sarah Bosha, the group's legal research and policy associate.

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A Former Dictator Claimed He Cured Thousands Of People Of AIDS. Some Of Them Are Now Suing Him.
Monica Mark

DAKAR, Senegal — Three people with AIDS who were repeatedly forced to undergo a homemade herbal “cure” in a bogus clinic run by Gambia’s former dictator Yahya Jammeh have launched a case against him, in a rare example of victims bringing an African autocrat to book at a national court.

Lamin Ceesay, Fatou Jatta, and Ousman Sowe described a 10-year nightmare that began when ex-president Jammeh, a high school dropout who ruled the tiny West African nation with an iron fist for 22 years, in 2007 claimed to have found a secret concoction of boiled herbs that cured AIDS in three days— if applied on Thursdays....

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