'Homeopaths Without Borders' taking woo to Africa

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Homeopathy for Health in Africa is affiliated with Homeopaths Without Borders. The Mission of Homeopathy for Health in Africa: To relieve the suffering of as many HIV/AIDS patients as possible using classical homeopathy.

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It's sad that valuable resources that could be used to pay for real medical care are being wasted in this way.

 

[KingMerv00]

They may be of some use. I suggest they start in regions suffering from drought.

 

[Alan]

They disgust me.

Ignorance does not excuse them from their harmful mistakes, when the correct information has been presented to them.

 

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

Yes, that's exactly what Africa needs - more dangerous misinformation about HIV and AIDS.

 

[Daylightstar]

To relieve the suffering of as many HIV/AIDS patients as possible using classical homeopathy

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Well, it depends on how you define "relieve the suffering".

If HIV/AIDS patients believe their HIV/AIDS is lifting, do they then not have to suffer anymore?
While still being deadly ill?

These homeopaths run a disgusting scam, and should be stopped at the first border they want to cross.

As far as I'm concerned, every person dying before there time as a result from a homeopath standing in the way of medical care, is a person killed.
As far as I'm concerned, every homeopath standing in the way of medical care in this context is a killer.

 

[catsmate]

One only hopes the homeopathic missionaries experience malaria, sleeping sickness, yellow fever, typhus, Dengue fever, typhoid, Schistosomiasis et cetera up close and personally.

 

[Alan]

One only hopes they do not. I would prefer them to just donate to a reputable charity.

 

[Beerina]

And people wonder, "What's the harm?"

 

[Daylightstar]

One only hopes the homeopathic missionaries experience malaria, sleeping sickness, yellow fever, typhus, Dengue fever, typhoid, Schistosomiasis et cetera up close and personally.

While allowed a taste of their own 'medicine', only. Ofcourse.

 

[Milbrandt]

There's a Dutch branch of them too (http://www.hzg.nl), they even have a quality mark by the CBF (well-known organization in The Netherlands), which suggests that they are a good charity.
People might think there's something to it, while the CBF-mark really only says something about how the money is spent (i.e. no managers with too high salaries) and if they follow the necessary procedures. Not about whether it's actually useful what they do.
This was the first organization that pissed me off so much that I actually felt the need to do something. I e-mailed the CBF and they replied me with the explanation I wrote above. I sure would have liked it if they took that quality mark away from them.

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

One only hopes the homeopathic missionaries experience malaria, sleeping sickness, yellow fever, typhus, Dengue fever, typhoid, Schistosomiasis et cetera up close and personally.

The homeoquacks will have inoculated themselves against all these disease with distilled water . . . so one can only hope . . .