Claims of cure for HIV,

Claims of cure for HIV, Hepatitis C are a ‘scandal’: Egypt presidential =

advisor
Army-made devices that allegedly cure HIV and Hepatitis C have no clear =

scientific basis, says scientific advisor to Egyptian president
Ahram Online, Wednesday 26 Feb 2014

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/95270/Egypt/Politics-/Claims-o=

f-cure-for-HIV,-Hepatitis-C-are-a-scandal-.aspx

Claims by the Egyptian army that it has found a cure for Hepatitis C and HI=
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are a “scientific scandal for Egypt,” the president’s scientific advisor ha=
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said.

The devices are unconvincing and appear to have no clear scientific basis, =

Essam Heggy told Al-Watan newspaper on Tuesday.

Heggy, who is currently on a visit to the US, said he has papers proving th=
e =

devices are ineffective and he will present them to the president when he =

returns to Egypt next week.

At a press conference on Saturday, army spokesperson Colonel Ahmed Ali said=
: =

=93The armed forces have achieved a scientific breakthrough by inventing =

devices to diagnose and treat Hepatitis C and HIV without taking a blood =

sample from the patient, which gets immediate results at a low cost.”

Heggy said President Adly Mansour and Defence Minister Abdel-Fattah =

El-Sissi – who attended the press conference – did not know the details of =

the announcement in advance and were “surprised” by what they heard.

Heggy said he was not consulted about the announcement and expressed regret =

that Egyptian specialists in Hepatitis C and HIV had not been consulted =

beforehand.

“An issue this sensitive, in my personal opinion, could hurt the image of =

the state,” Heggy said, adding that foreign newspapers could utilise the =

announcement to harm Egypt’s image internationally.

Physician and Major-General Ibrahim Abdel-Atti, the man behind the reported =

scientific breakthroughs, said the HIV and Hepatitis C treatments had a 100 =

percent success rate.

“I started working on this project 22 years ago,” Abdel-Atti said at =

Saturday’s press conference. “It started secretly in the military =

intelligence department but we are now announcing it to the whole world.”

The devices to diagnose Hepatitis C and HIV using electromagnetic waves are =

called C-Fast and I-Fast, while the device to treat HIV and Hepatitis C, as =

well psoriasis, is called the Complete Cure Device (CCD). The CCD will =

supposedly be used publicly in Egypt by June 2014.

A short documentary was displayed at the press conference showing a patient =

who claimed to have been totally cured of AIDS by the device.

Major-General Abdullah Taher, the head of the army’s engineering authority, =

told Al-Ahram Arabic news website that the devices would not be exported =

abroad in order to protect them from “the mafia” of big pharmaceutical =

companies and nations that control the pharmaceutical industry.

A medical source told Ahram Online that the devices had been approved since =

2012, but the treatment device was still being evaluated by the health =

ministry.

In 2011, the defence ministry filed a patent with the World Intellectual =

Property Organisation on the C-Fast device to diagnose Hepatitis C.

Egypt has one of the highest rates of Hepatitis C infections in the world. =

The number of patients reached 8 million in 2008, according to health =

ministry figures, or nearly 10 percent of the population. In some parts of =

Upper Egypt and the Nile Delta infection rates reach 20 percent.
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