FG dismisses HIV/AIDS cure claims
The Federal Government through the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) and the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) has rejected the cases by a Professor of Veterinary Medicine and Clinical Virology at the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike, Abia State, Maduike Ezeibe, to have found another medication for the cure of Human Immuno-insufficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).
A publication in a Nigerian daily paper, not The Guardian, cited the educator as saying that the medication, created with "Aluminum Magnesium Silicate" was tried on ten people living with HIV. The daily paper detailed a clinical result of a capacity to "achieve all cells" and making HIV "a vanquished living being."
Executive General, NACA, Dr. Sani Aliyu, and Chief Executive Officer NCDC, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, in a joint explanation yesterday said there was no confirmation from the distribution that the creators got moral freedom from a proper body in Nigeria to direct this review, and just uncertain proof that educated assent was looked for from the apparently defenseless patients.
They said there is truly no reason for a claim to cure of AIDS in this review and are worried that the reputation given to this cases will prevent patients with HIV from taking life-sparing against retroviral drugs (ARVs) and give them bogus any expectation of a cure.
The announcement noted: "It will be an extraordinary insult to this powerless gathering of patients for the media to disperse this cases without sound logical confirmation. There are for quite some time set up, attempted and tried courses for the disclosure, advancement and approval of present day medications before they can be enrolled and utilized for treatment in people and creatures."
NACA and NCDC approached all scholastics to take after legitimate and experimentally satisfactory techniques in directing their exploration and to abstain from making untimely claims equipped for wrecking the gigantic advance made in the most recent two decades on the war against HIV/AIDS.
The administration organizations said a large number of lives have been spared therefore of cutting edge antiretroviral treatment and individuals living with HIV can now anticipate an ordinary sound future. They, notwithstanding, said they will keep on supporting the hard and determined work being finished by researchers in Nigerian colleges and research establishments around the nation. "We are constantly prepared to join forces with our researchers on all parts of HIV research gave this is in accordance with global best practice," they noted.
NACA and NCDC approached editors of media houses in Nigeria to look for remarks from the authority of important government parastatals and proficient bodies when it gets new research discoveries identified with their ranges of duty. "We guarantee you that we will react quickly and helpfully to any inquiries. We additionally encourage the editors of media houses in Nigeria to bolster their journalists to pick up a more profound comprehension of the complexities required in the clinical trial prepare. In the keep running up to the following due date, it is anything but difficult to fall into the trap of accomplishing more damage than great, and the results of this can be savage in the wellbeing division. We will bolster the development of strong science news coverage in Nigeria," they noted.
They approached all patients living with HIV that are as of now taking their pharmaceuticals to keep on doing so and to see their specialists on the off chance that they have any worry.
As indicated by the announcement, the NACA helpline (6222) is accessible on working days from 8am-8pm for people in general looking for more data on HIV ailment.
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