Lucius Banda hits on preachers and prophets in ‘HIV healing’ claims

Balaka North member of Parliament (MP) Lucius Banda (United Democratic Front-UDF) has said  the HIV and Aids (Prevention and Management) legislation should have provisions to deal with overzealous church leaders claiming to cure HIV with prayer, saying they are causing more harm than good.

Lucius Banda (left) and fellow legislator Bon Kalindo in House

In his contribution, Banda said the Bill should have also looked into ways of handling individuals who default medication.

“Malawi being a very religious country has issues of preachers and prophets who claim to heal using faith,” pointed out Banda.

“How do we handle people who default medication after being convinced by the church that they are ok?”

He said the law should  muzzle anyone claiming they can cure AIDS.

Malawi Interfaith Aids Association (MIAA) is on record to have suggested that faith leaders who tell people with HIV to stop taking their life-saving drugs  should face prosecution.

There reports that many people with HIV have died after they stopped taking antiretroviral drugs on the advice of their Christian pastors.. Dodgy traditional healers touting their “cures” for AIDS are also proliferating.

Televangelism has also become increasingly popular in the conservative country and  pastors spend much of their time preaching messages of hope, with the emphasis on healing miracles and how millions have been saved from abject poverty.

A  congregant of the Living Waters Church, commented, “In our church we believe in divine intervention when we are faced with any problem, be it AIDS or poverty. Yes, antiretroviral drugs are important for AIDS patients, but people need Jesus most.

“We have seen people here getting healed and test HIV negative afterwards because of the power of prayer; people who do not get deliverance after being prayed for, lack faith.”

Meanwhile,  HIV and Aids and Nutrition Committee chairperson Deus Gumba Banda said the passing of the HIV Bill was a dream come true for him and the committee.

He said: “This will be one of the finest HIV legislations that also pays attention to human rights of individuals.”

The HIV and Aids (Prevention and Management) Bill was developed by the Malawi Law Commission in 2008 to provide an institutional framework for effective regulation of the prevention and management of the HIV and Aids epidemic in Malawi.

The Bill will also formally establish National Aids Commission, outlining composition of the commission and procedures for appointing commissioners and the chief executive officer.

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Jesus is Lord
6 years ago

AIDS is the judgment of God!

And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Romans:1:27

Prophet major.
Prophet major.
6 years ago
Reply to  Jesus is Lord

Prophet major that verse isn’t talking about that. Do your studies well.

william Robert
william Robert
6 years ago

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Prophet major.
Prophet major.
6 years ago
Reply to  william Robert

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sarah nandutu
sarah nandutu
6 years ago

I was diagnose April 17,2015 and find out I’m HIV positive.I was scared because there is no cure for HIV/AIDS but today some people still don’t believe that there is cure for HIV, it can only be cured through Africans root and herbs,and our doctor’s here in USA few of them know’s about the African herbal medicine can cure Hiv but they chooses to hide it from us just to make a sales of ARV DRUGS. I did a research online finding way to get rid of my disease,I saw a comment about a herbal doctor on internet Name Dr… Read more »

Kholowa mkabudula
Kholowa mkabudula
6 years ago
Reply to  sarah nandutu

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Prophet major.
Prophet major.
6 years ago

Both numbers are Nigerian. 234 is international code for the fraud capital Nigeria

Prophet major.
Prophet major.
6 years ago
Reply to  sarah nandutu

514 from Nigeria iyi. Kodi ma Nigeria akupezeka bwanji Pano? Awiri so far onse akupereka ma number a Ku Lagos. Samalani a Malawi. Nyasatimes please delete these fraudsters comments

Harrison Tembo
Harrison Tembo
6 years ago
Reply to  sarah nandutu

If this herbal really works our pharmacist and chemists must have bought, reprocessed and analysed the active ingredients and come up with a medical cure link they did with quinine.

Harrison Tembo
Harrison Tembo
6 years ago
Reply to  sarah nandutu

Even when we are talking of the 3rd 90 achieving viral suppsuppression, individuals may test negative using rapid testing. Go back for a DNA DBS test brother, you will cry because you are still HIV infected.

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