Talk:Kemron

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 14 May 2020 and 22 June 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Tmm4400. Peer reviewers: Lolanallie123.

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Historical narrative

User:Sussmanbern wrote a historical narrative on Kemron on this page, but unfortunately stated a current inability to provide sources. I moved the draft of the narrative to User:Sussmanbern/kemron; hopefully someone can provide a source for this information and the history can be adapted into the article. I could not leave the narrative here because Wikipedia is not a forum so I userfied the content until it can be matched with reliable sources for verification. Blue Rasberry (talk) 22:45, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

Someone did add several links to major newspaper articles, for which I am enormously grateful. I think that response was anonymous but I would hope that person would come forward to receive plaudits of praise and gratitude. I had been thinking of a Village Voice article, not available on Lexis or WestLaw, or other internet sources, about the Kemron treatment of Cedric Sturdevant of Staten Island. The article recounting his experiences - including a trip to the clinic in Kenya and then a return to the US - emphasized that a great deal of hankypanky was going on with the Kemron operation. The entire scheme was built as a money-making operation, with no treatments available for the Kenya locals who couldn't begin to pay for any of it. And the entire scheme was chockful of opportunities for the clinic to make alibis for non-cures, mostly by charging so much that few patients could afford to stay for the "full treatment" and then disrupting their supply of the pills once they returned home, so it could be said they failed to take the full dosage. It was the African equivalent of laetrile - with the added gimmick that, in the US, there were accusations of racism used against anyone who expressed doubts about Kemron. But the scam being perpetrated now by the dictator of Gambia is even more conspicuous. And the Gambia scam has an extra barb -- nobody there (including the clinic doctors) dare says that the dictator's methods are not a perfect cure, so AIDS carriers think they are cured and then they possibly spread the disease to new victims! Sussmanbern (talk) 07:21, 10 January 2018 (UTC)