AIDS in Africa

In the 1980s, the first AIDS patients were diagnosed. Soon it was discovered that the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was caused by a virus called HIV. With the immune system destroyed by the HIV infection, patients lost their ability to fight other infectious diseases and ultimately died.

Since the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic approximately 42.3 million people have died from HIV-related causes globally (WHO 2024), of which ±25 million in sub-Saharan Africa.

In Africa, HIV/AIDS spreads among men and women alike, whereas in many other parts of the world, infections occurred predominantly in homosexuals and drug addicts.

Certain aspects of African sexual practices significantly facilitate the spread of HIV/AIDS in the heterosexual population, like gender roles, unsafe sex practices, poverty driven prostitution and rape. Unawareness of the disease and taboo also play an important role, especially in the early years.

The high mortality rate in sub-Saharan Africa is also due to limited access to healthcare, late diagnosis, and insufficient availability of antiretroviral therapy (ART). Despite the increasing use of ARVs in recent years, many more AIDS deaths are predicted in sub-Saharan Africa in the coming years. Therapy resistance is a growing problem, and many children born with HIV no longer respond to ARVs, facing an early death.

Watch these two videos to learn about our Amma4Africa program for HIV/AIDS, and to meet Jane—a bright young girl born with HIV. She and many more children living with HIV/AIDS need support.

Amma4Africa Program for HIV AIDS

Jane, a positive AIDS orphan

In 2001, UK practitioner Peter Chappell travelled to Ethiopia, where access to HIV/AIDS treatment was extremely limited. After documenting approximately 70 cases, he compiled the patients’ AIDS-related symptoms and explored whether a homeopathic approach could be developed to address the pattern he had observed. Finding no existing remedy that matched those symptoms, and drawing on his background as a research and development engineer, Peter began investigating the possibility of developing an HIV/AIDS-specific resonance-based approach.

The Birth of PC1: A Simple, Accessible Approach

In 2002, Peter developed a resonance he later named PC1. Using PC Technology, he imprinted the symptom totality he had observed in people with AIDS in Africa into water. Because the preparation contains no pharmaceutical or other active chemical ingredients, it was intended as a simple and accessible approach for people affected by HIV/AIDS.

According to Peter’s observations, patients who used PC1 showed encouraging improvements, including increased energy and appetite and reductions in pain and respiratory problems. Many subsequently returned to more active daily lives. These experiences became an important foundation for ARHF’s subsequent work with resonance-based approaches to HIV/AIDS.

Since 2002, PC1 has been used in several African countries by doctors, nurses, and community health workers trained by ARHF. Their reported experiences have been broadly consistent with the observations initially made by Peter Chappell. Clinical studies and field observations have reported improvements in AIDS-related symptoms among people using PC1, together with reductions in opportunistic infections. These observations were accompanied by increases in CD4 counts and reductions in viral load, findings that ARHF considers encouraging evidence of improved immune function.

See also the article: Novel Immune Supportive Treatment of HIV/AIDS – Comparative outcomes study in rural clinics in Africa

References

  • Chappell PL. The Second Simillimum. Homeolinks Publishers: Haren, Netherlands; 2005.
  • Chappell PL, van der Zee HE. Homeopathy for Diseases. Homeolinks Publishers: Haren, Netherlands; 2012.
  • van der Zee HE. Healing Humanity with Homeopathy: Homeopathy for Epidemics, Collective Trauma and Endemic Diseases. Wholistic Healing Publications 2009;9(2)
  • van der Zee HE. ARHF Volunteers Manual 3.0: Basic Guide to Treating Infectious Diseases, Trauma and Chronic Diseases. Amma Resonance healing Foundation: Haren, Netherlands; 2022.
  • Hiwat C, van der Zee HE. PC1 – Answer to AIDS in Africa. Homoeopathic Links 2004;17(4):264-269
  • Schustereder K. PC 1 als homöopathische Arznei bei AIDS: Erfahrungen aus der staatlichen Klinik Baboua in Zentralafrika. AHZ 2007;252(3):109-118
  • Van der Zee HE, Walach H. Novel Immune Supportive Treatment of HIV/AIDS – Comparative outcomes study in rural clinics in Africa. International Journal of Healing and Caring 2024, 24(1) 18-34. https://doi.10.78717/ijhc.2024118

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