AEGiS-Bangkok Post: House panel to put V-1 under microscope

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House panel to put V-1 under microscope

Bangkok Post - October 9, 2002

The House justice and human rights committee has agreed to set up an independent agency to test if the food supplement V-1 Immunitor is effective against Aids after discovering the conditions of some patients in Chumpon had improved while taking the drug.

The panel received a petition last week from a nurse connected to an Aids support group protesting a previous decision by the Public Health Ministry, which ruled the drug was ineffective against the disease.

A group of medical researchers who recently studied V-1 also discovered no basis for the distributor's claim that it could improve the conditions of Aids sufferers.

However, the House committee decided barring V-1 as an Aids treatment would be in violation of patients' constitutional and human rights, said Sathit Pitudecha, deputy chairman of the committee.

The agency would carry out further tests on V-1 before questioning individuals connected to the drug, including one-time advocate Pol Gen Salang Bunnag, and senior government officials, he said.
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