ARMENIA GENERATES CURE FOR AIDS
YEREVAN, February 22 /Noyan Tapan/. The sensational statement by Interior & National Security Minister Serge Sargssian that Armenia had generated a unique medicine to cure AIDS was also confirmed by the Director of the Armenian Drugs Agency, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia Emil Gabrielian. "Although the medicine has not yet been officially registered, it can be said already now that the results of the test are most promising and there is hardly any comparision to be drawn between this drug and others we know," he said. All of the 13 AIDS-stricken and HIV-infected people showed positive results two months after they started to use the medicine. In addition to the experimentally obtained data, such as the quantity of CD-4-lymphocytes reflecting the degree of human immunity, the virus concentration in blood, patients were observed to feel much better. All researches had been financed by private businesses with the immediate assistance of the personnel of the Republican Center for AIDS Prevention and Control. Interior Minister Serge Sargssian was an active help to the research program, Gabrielian said. In that connection, we would remind you that six months ago, in answer to NT's question if there were AIDS-stricken prisoners in Armenia, Sargssian confirmed the presence of 13 AIDS-stricken and HIV-infected in penitentiaries. Gabrielian believes that Armenia has all appropriate conditions to manufacture the new medicine, the name of which includes the word "Armenicum". The full name of the drug will be announced after it is officially registered and a corresponding statement is made. It can be expected in the near future. *01/-2e c17 $e17 22/02/99