Background on the fake HIV/HCV device (C-Fast/CCD Complete Cure) and Dr. Mohamed Fatouh

Background on Dr. Ahmed Monis' fake Egyptian treatment/device C-Fast/CCD
and Dr. Mohamed Fatouh and his Complaint

For background on the fake treatment/device:

Newly Added (7 Apr 2015)  :

1. Egyptian Medical Syndicate: Statement on the interrogation of the perpetrators involved in military-announced #KoftaGate Fake HIV AIDS CCD C-Fast Device Cure
2. Egyptian Medical Syndicate:  Statement confirming Non-Exclusion of any physician in virus cure device interrogations
3. Testimony confirming the exclusion of the main interrogated perpetrator, Dr. Ahmed Monis (military-backed) from interrogations:
   - Almasry Alyoum Newspaper (Arabic) Article - 1, Article-2
   - Dr. Mohamed Fatouh (Arabic)
4. Deutsche Welle (Arabic): Dr. Bassem Youssef on the military device: The biggest scientific scandal in Egypt history
5. Huffington Post: Top Egyptian Comedian Slams Military For Saying It Can 'Cure' AIDS And Hepatitis C
6. Trial of Dr. Mohamed Fatouh postponed for 11 April 2015 : Deciding on the appeal on the fine of $2700  (EGP 20,000)
7. Bustle

 The original list:

1. Science Mag: Expat virologist takes to YouTube to challenge 'pseudoscience' behind Egyptian devices
2. NATURE MIDDLE EAST: The false science behind Egyptian army’s AIDS and HCV cure
3. CNN: Egyptian army's AIDS-cure claim gets harsh criticism
4. Ahram (Egypt): Claims of cure for HIV, Hepatitis C are a 'scandal': Egypt presidential advisor
5. Egypt Independent (Egypt):  President orders review of AIDS-detecting device
6. CairoPost(Egypt): President’s scientific adviser delays return to Egypt
7. International Business Times: Egyptian Military Ridiculed over 'Cure for Aids'
8. NYTimes: Disbelief After Egypt Announces Cures for AIDS and Hepatitis C
9. Bustle: AIDS Cure Found By Egyptian Army, It Insists, So It's A Shame It's Almost Definitely A Scam [Many cross-reference links]
10. McGill Daily SciTech : The state versus the expert Demarcating scientific authority
11. Atlantic Council.: The Army’s Miracle Cure: Today’s Joke, Tomorrow’s Tragedy
12. Egyptian Chronicles (blog): #KoftaGate : Dr. StrangeLove or how We Cured AIDS and HCV “Chapter-1” 
13.  Egyptian Chronicles (blog): #KoftaGate : Dr. Strangelove or Trust Me I am a Doctor “Chapter-2” {Updated}
14. Egyptian Chronicles (Egyptian blog) #KoftaGate : Let’s Burn those heretics at the Stake !! “Chapter3”
15. The New Zealand Herald: Egypt's military delays device that 'cures' Aids amid ridicule
16. The Telegraph: Egypt army embarrassment after it 'cures' Aids
17. Mashable: Egypt's 'AIDS Curing Device' May Be A Fake Bomb Detector
18. The Washington Times: Egypt’s army claims it found cure for AIDS, hepatitis C
19. Egypt Independent: Forgive us Essam Heggy
20. The Huffington Post: Top Egyptian Comedian Slams Military For Saying It Can 'Cure' AIDS And Hepatitis C
21. Arabist: Kofta-Gate [Many cross-reference links]
22. Pepijn van Erp. (blog): Update on #KoftaGate – Egyptian Miracle Detectors and Cures for Hepatitis C and AIDS  [Many cross-reference links]
23.  The Quackometer Blog: Egyptian Government Duped by Nonsense HIV Detection Machine
24. AMY MANTRAVADI: THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT CURES AIDS!  [Many cross-reference links]
25. The device international patent
26. Guardian Liberty Voice: Egypt Army Claims to Have Cured AIDS, Hepatitis C
27. The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy: Command and Consequence in a Strongman State
28. NOW News. Mercury Media: No cure for pseudoscienceEgypt’s military “misusing science,” generating “false hopes,” says science writer
29. Masress (news aggregator & index): Claims of cure for HIV, Hepatitis C are a 'scandal': Egypt presidential advisor
30. El Balad (Egypt): Egyptian army delays rollout of ‘AIDS detecting machine’
31. Al-Monitor: Egypt's 'kofta' scandal sign of missing checks, balances
32. Egypt Independent (Egypt): Egyptian NASA scientist slams media disregard to space landing achievement
33. Muftah: The Countdown to “Kofta Gate,” Egypt’s So-Called Cure for AIDS  [Many cross-reference links]
34.  #BBCtrending: Egyptian public sceptical about military’s HIV ‘breakthrough’
35. BuzzFeed: Why The Miracle Cure Offered To Egyptians With Hepatitis C Isn’t Funny
36. Vice News: Egyptian Army Mocked for ‘Miracle’ AIDS CureShareTweet
37. The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy: Koftagate: Dashed Hopes and Wasted Resources
38. SF Gate: Egypt claims of cure for HIV, Hepatitis C
39.  Comment Middle East: AIDS, HCV and Kofta The scientific comedy and the social moral tragedy
40.  The Commentator: Egypt claims miracle cure for HIV and Hepatitis
41. The Commentator: The big retreat. No Egypt HIV miracle cure after all
42. Al Arabiya: Egypt’s army claims AIDS-detecting ‘scientific breakthrough’
43.  Moftasa (blog): Update on the HIV & HCV miracle cure
44. Moftasa (blog) : CC cures HIV/AIDS [cross-reference links]

For background on Dr. Mohamed Fatouh

1. Dr. Fatouh Clinic on Facebook
2. The Middle East Monitor :  Egyptian doctors continue strike, mass resignations
3. firedoglake.com: Health Workers Deliver First Aid to Protest Movements
4. Ahram Online: Tahrir doctors issue urgent appeal for colleagues to head to the square
5. LA Times: Mosque becomes hospital for protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square
6. Russia Today: At least 90 injured in Cairo as military close eyes on attack against protesters (PHOTOS)
7. smke: Organizing a revolution: the Tahrir Doctors’ experience of using social media
8. For a huge number of articles and reports, please make a google search on the sentence "Tahrir Doctors"
9. Tahrir Doctors Society (founding member) : Website , Facebook, Youtube, Twitter
10. Email
    mohamed_awad838@yahoo.com
    mfatouh838@gmail.com
    
    Facebook
    https://www.facebook.com/surgeon88
     

For background on Dr. Mohamed Fatouh' complaint

Ccomplete translation of Dr. Fatouh complaint document (The complaint
Dr. Mohamed Fatouh filed in the Egyptian Medical Syndicate Headquarter's Professional Ethics Department against Dr. Monis)

Translation:

In the name of Allah, The Merciful, The Compassionate

To Prof. Dr.: Head of Egyptian Medical Syndicate of Egypt
To Prof. Dr.: Head of Professional Ethics Department, Egyptian Medical
Syndicate of Egypt

I am presenting this complaint to you to investigate it, against Dr.
Ahmed Monis, Professor of Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Ain
Shams University, who is a registered doctor in the syndicate records,
for the following:

1 - He announced that he was part of invention of a device that he
claimed can treat many viral diseases, and conducted media marketing
to the same device in published, visual, and radio media without
reference to of any scientific tools, and known scientific research
procedures in the invention of the device, which resulted in harming
the reputation of Egyptian physicians inside and outside Egypt.

2- He willfully harmed the health of millions of Egyptian patients,
physically and psychologically, through participation in marketing the
device, which resulted in a portion of patients quitting their current
treatment, waiting for this alleged treatment to be available.

I ask you to investigate the causes of this complaint, and apply the
most severe penalties according to the Professional Ethics Regulations
against him if found guilty,to make him an example for anyone thinking
of harming the reputation of Egyptian physicians, or harming the
health of Egyptian patients for personal gains.

With high and due respect,

Presented by
Dr. Mohamed Fatouh Mohamed Awad
Surgery Consultant
Cairo Medical Syndicate Council member
President of Tahrir Doctors Society
Dated: 30/06/2014


For background on Dr. Ahmed Monis attack against Mohamed Fatouh in court

The lawsuit Dr. Ahmed Monis made against Dr. Fatouh for slander
and libel / defamation, concluding that:
- The complaint test contained false attributes to Dr. Monis like: "misleading the public" which is considered insults and defamation to the notable professor.
- Publishing of Dr. Fatouh's complaint on his own facebook wall, saying
under it "we will never have fears anymore, we will clean means we will clean" .. and giving the device the name "kofta device".. are defaming the device
and the professor.
(Kofta are Egyptian Arabic word for grilled bars of meat, the
spokesman of the team Dr. Ibrahim Abdel Atti said in the official
announcement:

"We will take AIDS from the patient, then made it a Kofta bar, then
give it back to the patient to feed on it"

For more information on the words "kofta" in that context of the device invention, please follow these search results: "kofta device doctor".



For background on Dr. Ahmed Monis 

Ahmed Monis is a  Professor of Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, AinShams University
Dr. Ahmed Ali Monis Clinic website & personal information
- Twitter (not verified) :https://twitter.com/ahmedmonis
- Youtube (not verified) :https://www.youtube.com/user/ahmedmonis1/