'€œBring me people sick with AIDS who can'€™t walk'€, urges the poster stuck onto Durban bus shelters, with a cellphone number attached. The number leads to a man who called himself '€œDr Mama Grace'€ who operates from a small building on Grey Street in downtown Durban.

Ceragem is a Korean massage bed registered by the American Food and Drug Administration in the US for the treatment of minor aches and pains in arthritis '€“ but in South Africa it is being touted as an AIDS cure.

The former minister of health in Cameroon claims he has developed an AIDS '€œvaccine'€ that has '€œcured'€ 23 people of the disease, but when asked to produce those he had cured he could not.