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From his latest HIV drug and love for cars and women, Prof Obel bares all

Controversial Aids researcher Prof Arthur Obel at his Loresho home last week. [Jenipher Wachie, Standard]

Prof Arthur Obel is hard to please. Friend and foe say he is proud and unpredictable. Others call him an arrogant and intellectual snob.

But the professor of medicine doesn’t care: “Let them call me whatever they want; even a witch doctor if they wish. It does not change what I know about myself.”

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