Sight №216 07.06.1999 (1999)

The program is devoted to the fight against AIDS. The drug "Armenicum" - a myth or a new hope.

CNN archive: Oscar Hammershine - the only person cured of AIDS. Interview with a patient about his health.

Doctors emphasize that so far this is an isolated case.

Nikolai Kolesnikov, a volunteer from Kaliningrad, is a guest of "Vzglyad".

Nikolai answers questions about the course of treatment in Yerevan.

Igor Ivanov, a doctor at the Kaliningrad Regional Infectious Diseases Hospital, talks about various people who offered to sell Armenicum.

Patients of the hospital with questions to N. Kolesnikov: how effective is the drug, is it all true.

Filming in Yerevan in May 1999: interviews with patients about the course of treatment.

The chief infectious disease specialist of the Republic of Armenia Levon Mkhitaryan about the beginning of experiments with patients in the last stage of the disease.

Vice President of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia Emil Gabrielyan: to study the effectiveness of the drug, it is important that patients, not researchers, believe us.

Upon completion of the course of treatment, the virus is not detected in the body.

In the studio, Komsomolskaya Pravda correspondent Vardan Aloyan, director of the Republican Center for AIDS Prevention Lev Zohrabyan and Andrey Kirisenko.

Information on the number of patients.

Current statistics of those recovering.

Information on foreign volunteers.

Warning about fraud related to offers to buy the drug or go for paid treatment to Armenia: the drug armenicum has not yet left the territory of the republic, and travel issues are resolved through the Armenian embassies in the CIS countries.

Institute of Virology of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, interview with the head of the immunochemistry laboratory Eduard Karamov: opinion on the drug and related issues.

What exactly is meant by the word "cure".

The need to obtain and study information about armenicum.

Rules for the certification of drugs: secrecy is inappropriate, since it does not comply with current legislation.

Lack of scientific publications on the drug.

Comments by L. Zograbyan: scientific discussion is necessary, materials are being prepared.

Russian Ambassador to Armenia Anatoly Dryukov on the cooperation proposal sent to Moscow. L. Zograbyan confirms readiness to cooperate. I. Ivanov invites Armenian specialists to visit.

An additional request to accept for treatment any of the patients of the Kaliningrad Infectious Diseases Hospital. L. Zograbyan once again emphasizes the availability of treatment: we do not take any money from patients, everything is done free of charge.

Project manager Levon Gevorkyan gives an interview about gratuitous assistance to patients.

The hosts of "Vzglyad" report on plans to discuss the topic at the World Health Organization (WHO).