After five years of heated debate, the National Institutes of Health has decided to undertake a nationwide clinical trial of Kemron, the drug touted by the Nation of Islam as a cure of AIDS, despite a previous finding by the World Health Organization that the drug had no effect on the HIV virus. Nation of Islam Health Minister Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammed, who once told a Baltimore crowd that AIDS is "the perfect genocidal weapon" manufactured by the white government against black people, runs the Abundant Life Clinic in Washington, D.C., which has been chosen as one of the drug's testing sites.

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