Tuesday
23 February 1999
RFL/RL
Citing "reliable sources," "Azg" writes that Interior and National
Security Minister Serzh Sarkisian's optimism regarding what he says
is a new AIDS drug is "exaggerated." Results are "really encouraging"
but it is too early to say that the AIDS-injected patients have fully
recuperated. Having said that, the paper continues, the discovery may
bring huge dividends to Armenia.
"Respublika Armeniya" claims that the new drug has "cured several other diseases." It is currently being tested on oncological diseases.