Interesting to see where this leads

The Gambian president has claimed that he's found a cure for AIDS - brought to him by his ancestors in a dream. Bringing all my arts training to the fore, I think this issue, as hoax-like as it seems, is actually worth following. Some patients have been taking his herbal concoction for a number of weeks and they claim that they feel stronger and, some go as far as to say, healed. But "experts" are wary, saying that the president has no formal medical training and therefore he is merely giving AIDS sufferers false hope.
What could come of this?

• if indeed he's stumbled upon the cure, the drug companies won't be very happy. Millions in anti-retroviral drugs to be lost. But millions in his cure to be made, for whoever gets the rights to the formula.
• a cure for AIDS would be awesome
• it would scoff the 'professional' medical community. A cure came to him in a dream -i'd rethink my superstitions.
• if the concoction has only functioned as a placebo and has already made AIDS sufferers feel stronger than they have in months, perhaps the disease is all about mind over matter

My prediction is that this story will just ebb and die with the rest of them. In my espionage-induced imagination, maybe the cure is real, and the drug companies will band together to remove this new threat to their livelihoods (think The Constant Gardener) or maybe it will justify this South African professor in saying:

"For a country's leader to come up with such an outlandish conclusion is not
only irresponsible, but also very dangerous, and he should be reprimanded and
stopped from proclaiming such nonsense,"

*sigh* it's a case of damned if you do and damned if you don't (react to the alarming HIV infection rate). My support's with the Gambian prime minister... just hope that he hasn't just made up the whole deal and paid lots of people to authenticate it.

But assuming that he's not, and that profit is put above human lives (as indubitably has occurred before), a brilliant quote:

“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles
and misguided men.”

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Really people, all we need is love.