Aluminium-magnesium silicate can cure AIDS

Professor of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Professor Maduike Ezeibe, yesterday announced the development of a new drug that can cure HIV/ AIDS.

Ezeibe told the Daily Trust in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, that the Aluminium-Magnesium Silicate has passed through “a series of successful tests.”

“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 seemed to have defied all solutions. We are talking about the latest discovery of Aluminium-Magnesium Silicate in Nigeria as possible cure for HIV/AIDS virus,’’ he said.

He said research on the project started in 1994, when plasma samples from five infected patients were confirmed positive for HIV.

Ezeibe added: “The existing ret-roviral 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 helps us to know the quantity we can conveniently give to infected persons and will feel secure that nothing untoward will happen. We also did a bacteriological analysis on it, after which we looked at its effect on the virus and the result was quite revealing and refreshing.’’

The professor said the drug has been exposed to series of medical examinations, both in Nigeria and in the United States. He added that the drug has worked well on patients with the HIV virus and had shown evidence of total restoration of damaged tissues.

Ezeibe appealed for support from the federal government and relevant bodies.