Faith healers are out in force in Nigeria. There is a problem with the medicine. Medicine is so far from most people's understanding of what medicine looks like. When it comes to a terminal illness many people are desperate for a solution. The same goes for chronic diseases. You just want it to end. Even something as minor as nearsightedness is a nuisance, and many people fall for scams to get rid of their glasses. However you look at it, the deadliest moment lies in the hands of treatments for diseases such as cancer, HIV/AIDS and diabetes. I have seen some signs of alternative medicine practitioners insisting that these diseases can be cured. Maybe not AIDS - in India people still fear HIV/AIDS patients and believe all sorts of superstitions about how the disease is transmitted - but I have seen signs promising a cure for diabetes. This is not due to the goodness of their hearts or the desire to do good, but because they are either unscrupulous charlatans hoping to earn a few bucks from the hands of desperate people, or they sincerely believe that they have the power to cure these diseases. illnesses. This is where religion comes in. Faith healers may sincerely believe that they are able to heal people through spiritual mechanisms. In the US this takes the form of these immense revival meetings where sly production values ​​allow these faith healers to have impressive audiences to demonstrate their powers. We know that this is simply an extension of the placebo effect. We know that drama and pageantry play a vital role in the treatment of patients, and that in our more ethical medical practices we no longer have to be unscrupulous with drug claims. But there is a large and significant group of 0END.0 anti-medicine people. ...... middle of paper ...... Their faith in HIV+ is affirmed and strengthened. The pastor also makes a lot of money from this as word of mouth spreads about his “good” work. HIV/AIDS patients who forgo medications are easily cured because they either die (and may even spread the disease to others). others ensure that more people can benefit) or if they survive, they can easily be ostracized since HIV/AIDS patients are already ostracized and the disease's link to immorality means that it is easy to murder any angry victim of this scam and simply ignore it. After all, they contracted HIV/AIDS because they were once immoral. If the healing has failed, it must be because they never really accepted the power of God. And all that happens is that the shepherd gets richer and more people fall into his flock and more HIV patients are sacrificed for satisfy his greed..