Hope from a Red Fruit

A fruit from Papua has proved it can boost the health of HIV/AIDS patients—a natural wonder, or just a false hope?

December 7, 2004

AN innocuous red fruit, kuansu, has raised questions in the mind of Agustina, and in the rest of the world, too. Could this fruit from Papua really offer the possibility of a return to normal life? It has so happened that Agustina Saweri, 23, suffering from HIV/AIDS, has encountered a minor miracle in the red fruit (Pandanus conoideus). Kuansu has given her new hope. “In the past I was like a living skeleton that could only lie about in bed.

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