Calls to the company's Las Vegas headquarters today were
greeted by a recording explaining its voice mail was full.
Jules Levin, executive director of the National AIDS
Treatment Advocacy Project, which runs HIV treatment and
education programs in minority communities in the New York City
area, criticized the company's announcement.
``Any self-respecting researcher who has something that
might help people with HIV should present it at a peer-reviewed
medical meeting,' he said. ``I think they should be investigated
for securities fraud.'
Testimonials
Letters from five patients allegedly treated with Plasma
Plus were posted on Uniprime's Web site late yesterday. They were
added to a section with auto salesmen's testimonials.
``I feel totally healed,' wrote Alfonso Valentin Salto
Sanchez in a letter in Spanish and English.
Uniprime said it ``received documentation from the
government of Spain verifying the authenticity of the patients
who have been treated' with Plasma Plus.
The company, which owns auto dealerships in Rochester, New
York, and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, said it wouldn't release
the documentation before getting a patent on Plasma Plus.
``Some people are going to think there is something to this
and maybe try to take this and stop taking their medicines,'
said Levin. ``It's very irresponsible.'
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