A researcher, Prof. Madubuike Ezeibe, has called on Federal Government to carry out a clinical trial of the drug he invented for the treatment of HIV/AIDS, Aluminum-Magnesium Silicate.
A clinical trial is a study that explores whether a medical strategy, treatment, or device is safe and effective for humans. It shows which approaches work best for certain illnesses or groups of people.
Ezeibe, a professor of Veterinary Medicine, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, made the call in Umuahia on Monday.
The don who presented a paper on the potential of the drug as both antiviral and raw material, at a world conference on Ethnopharmacology in Chicago, United States, on May 2, 2016, said that more than one year after he invented and presented his findings at different international conferences, no authority anywhere in the world had disputed the research findings.
“I, therefore, appeal to the federal government to institute an inter-ministerial committee to carry out clinical trial of the drug in six centres across the country without further delay.
“The committee should comprise federal Ministries of Health, Education, Environment as well as Science and Technology, with, at least, 1000 sample patients from each state of the federation.
“Some of the findings of the research include that silicates have molecules that are 0.96 nanometre in size while HIV has molecules as big...See more @ NewsInNigeria.org
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