TWO Africans with HIV in Edinburgh died after they stopped taking medication on the advice of their pastors.
TWO Africans with HIV in Edinburgh died after they stopped taking medication on the advice of their pastors.
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By Russell Leadbetter
The deaths, of women in their 30s, occurred in the last five years.
Reverend Marion Chatterley, a priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church and spiritual and pastoral care co-ordinator at the charity Waverley Care, said that while the power of prayer was “acknowledged”, any advice to patients to ignore medical resources was “clearly unhelpful and misinformed.”
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