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| Egyptian doctors demand army say what happened to AIDS cure |
which is demanding on that the army release information about a promised cure for AIDS and hepatitis it has delayed since the last year.
The military s engineering wing made the widely ridiculed claim that it had invented devices that could detect and cure the diseases, but last summer said it needed until the end of December to carry out further tests before releasing them to the public.
Tn theLast month, prosecutors ordered an investigation into the devices, after a lawyer filed a complaint against the inventors, who include a now-retired army chief engineer and another military officer. The complaint accused the inventors of misleading the public.
"If it is working, they should say so. Otherwise they should apologize to the patients who have been waiting for this miracle cure for the past year," said Mohammed Fattouh, a doctor and Association board member.
"And in that case they must hold some people to account and make sure mistakes like this do not happen again."
The assertion hit a sensitive nerve in Egypt, where Hepatitis C is an epidemic. Some studies estimate that up to 10 percent of 86 million Egyptians have it, making it the country with the highest prevalence in the world.
The demonstrators, mostly doctors, stood on the steps of the association s building in order to avoid arrest for unauthorized protest. Thousands sit behind bars in Egypt as a result of a draconian protest law decreed during a crackdown following the 2013 military overthrow of the Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi.
Military officers involved in the project declined to comment.
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