According to channelstv, “A Professor in the University of Benin, Isaiah Ibeh early this January announced the development of a new drug which could potentially ‘cure’ HIV and AIDS.”
Professor Ibeh; the Dean of the School of Basic Medical Sciences of the university, told reporters in Benin that a series of successful tests have been carried out with the alleged herbal drug.
He further added “We are at the threshold of making history, in the sense that we seem to have with us something that will permanently take care of what over time seems to have defied all solutions. “We are talking about the latest discovery of an oral drug made from plants extraction in Nigeria for the possible cure of the pandemic, HIV and AIDS virus.’’
According to him this research project stands since 2010 and has culminated in the development of “Deconcotion X (DX)–Liquid or Bioclean 11 for the cure of HIV and AIDS”. “The existing retro viral drugs are intervention drugs for the management of AIDS but our new discovery is a possible cure.
“We have tried to look at the product first; its toxicological analysis and discovered that it has a large safety margin. “This means that if animals or human beings are exposed to it, they will not suffer any serious harm at all from the exposure. “It also helped us to know the quantity we can conveniently give to animals and will feel secure that nothing untoward will happen.
“We have also done the bacteriological analysis on it, after which we looked at its effect on the virus and the result was quite revealing and refreshing.” Ibeh also said that the drug had been exposed to series of medical examination both in Nigeria and in the USA. He added that the drug had performed well on patients with the HIV virus and had shown evidence of total restoration of damaged tissues.
“The result showed an increase in the body weight of the individual administered with DX. “The body weight was statistically significant when compared with the control group.” He said that further tests were being conducted to determine “at what point will a patient become negative after being administered the drug?”.
“This verification is necessary because it is what is used to measure whether infection is still there or not. So we need to know the siro-convention time. “But preliminary results showed that of the five latest patients orally administered with the drugs, our findings is that up to seven months , three of them were zero negative while two were sill faintly positive.’’
In other to sustain further research development and testing, Professor Ibeh appealed for support from the Federal Government and relevant bodies to assist the university.
In past, many professors, researchers and organisations have attempted and tried and are still trying over for the very best cure for the deadly decease called HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) and/or AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). Lets hope this might be the answer that Africa so badly needs.
Important advice to note
Just to reterate, there is no cure for HIV, but treatments are much more successful than they used to be, enabling people with the virus to stay healthy and live longer. Emergency HIV drugs.
So far the best prevention is safe sex which is using condoms; by so doing, anyone could accerting their level of exposure relatively better.
If you think you have been exposed to the virus within the last 72 hours (three days), anti-HIV medication may stop you becoming infected. But this is only if you have been having safe sex, but something happened which prevented that at one instant.
For it to be effective, the medication, called post-exposure prophylaxis or PEP, must be started within 72 hours of coming into contact with the virus.
The quicker PEP is started the better, ideally within hours of coming into contact with HIV. The longer the wait, the less chance of it being effective.
PEP has been misleadingly popularised as a “morning-after pill” for HIV – a reference to the emergency pill women can take to prevent getting pregnant.
But the description is not accurate. PEP is a month-long treatment, which has serious side effects and is not guaranteed to work. The treatment involves taking the same drugs prescribed to people who have tested positive for HIV.
Now I know Africa is most often disadvantage in this but, you may be able to get PEP from:
sexual health clinics, or genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinics; hospitals – usually accident and emergency (A&E) departments. If you already have HIV, try your HIV clinic if the PEP is for someone you’ve had sex with.
Not all these places in every part of the country will have PEP or be able to give it. GPs usually do not provide PEP.
If you are diagnosed with HIV, you will have regular blood tests to monitor the progress of the virus before starting treatment. You will not normally need to start treatment until the virus has begun weakening your immune system. This is determined by mainly by measuring your levels of CD4, which are infection-fighting cells, in your blood.
Treatment is usually recommended to begin when your CD4 count falls below 350, whether or not you have any symptoms. The aim of the treatment is to reduce the level of HIV in the blood and prevent or delay any HIV-related illnesses.
Source; www.nhs.uk
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