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The Armenian ministry of health invites the patients of the AIDS to test the arménicum

Before to have even received the opinion of the international scientific community on the effectiveness of the arménicum, this supposed remedy to neutralize the virus of the AIDS whose Armenian researchers announced the discovery the last month, the Armenian Minister for health called all the patients who wish to take part in the clinical tests to follow a processing in Arménie. **time-out** at the time of a conference de press Tuesday with Erévan, the minister Armenian Haïg Nigoghossian have thus invite the hiv-positive individual and patient of AIDS eager to make look after in Arménie to take contact with the Center republican for the control and the prevention of AIDS, the processing be open with patient which have not the citizenship Armenian; for the latter, it was recommended to contact the " centers anti-cAids of their countries ", which will be given the responsability to deposit demands for this direction with the Armenian ministry of the Foreign Affairs, via the Armenian embassies abroad. It is not said if the patients will have to pay for this processing. The ministry added that the company which produces the remedy would be directly implied in the process of evaluation of the clinical tests, with the Armenian Center of prevention and control of the AIDS. The Armenian ministry of health would deal only with the medical aspect of this countryside, by making share regularly projection of search. This call can appear somewhat premature, whereas the arménicum was not the subject yet of only one article in the specialized press, at least out of the in the past Soviet world. With the scale of the CEI, the Armenian discovery appears to raise certain hopes, even if scepticism is the rule. **time-out** in testify the reaction mitigate of head of processing center de traitement of patient of AIDS of hospital of Zaporojie, in Ukraine, which himself be pleased of all projection in the fight against the disease, of which 45 000 person at least be reach in Ukraine, but doubt of its effectiveness real. The patients treated in his department are even more skeptics and do not want to serve as " guinea-pig "; none of the 18 patients who are neat there is declared ready to exchange the processing - trithérapie- current which proved reliable, counters the Armenian remedy of which one does not know the possible side effects. Information one has to date does not make it possible besides even to establish if the arménicum is a new combination of already existing drugs or a radically new remedy.