END OF HIV: Nigeria Scientists Make Landmark Breakthrough In AIDS Treatment

A group of Nigerian scientists have found
what could be a novel treatment for
Human Immune-deficiency Virus, HIV,
infection that may slash the cost of
treatment.
The team of scientists, including graduate
students and researchers from the
Michael Okpara University of Agriculture,
Umudike, Abia state, University of Nigeria,
Nsukka, and the Federal Medical Centre,
Umuahia, Nigeria have been able to show
that synthetic Aluminum-magnesium
silicate (AMS) has antiretroviral effects
that could lay a perfect track for
affordable and effective therapy for HIV.
Results of their work titled “Assessment of
Antiretroviral Effects of a Synthetic
Aluminum-magnesium Silicate” published
in the British Journal of Medicine &
Medical Research and featured on
SCIENCEDOMAIN international shows a
significant reduction in the titres of the
virus when HIV positive plasma was
incubated with AMS.
Head, Department of Veterinary Medicine
at Michael Okpara University of
Agriculture, and the lead scientist,
Professor Maduike Ezeibe, said the
discovery could provide an ultimate cure
for the virus that has defiled so many
scientific efforts to curtail it in the past.
Ezeibe reacted aluminium silicate with
magnesium silicate to obtain the synthetic
aluminum-magnesium silicate devoid of
impurities.
Giving further details Ezeibe noted:
“Molecules of aluminum-
magnesium silicate have platelets
that possess both negative and
positive electrical charges on their
surfaces and their edges. HIV on
the other hand is negatively
charged. So the simple scientific
understanding that opposite
charges attracts ensures that the
HIV virus binds to the AMS and is
discharged from the body
alongside.”
“AMS is normally used as a
stabilizing medicine that does not
really have toxic effect on the
patient, so it makes it a suitable
agent for mopping up HIV virus
from the body,” he said.
The author noted also that “Adsorbing out
HIV means that millions of new virions
usually released from each infected cell
would be inhibited from establishing new
infections in more cells,” adding,
"Thus, HIV would be prevented from
overwhelming the body immune systems
and the Acquired Immunodeficiency
Syndrome (AIDS) stage may be prevented,
in which case cure could be achieved,"
Ezeibe said.
Pastor E.A Adeboye prophesied at the
beginning of this year, 2014 that there
would be medical break-through in
Nigeria this year and it is manifesting
already. UCH carried out their first open-
heart surgery and it was successful and
now there's a break-through to the
epidermic that has troubled man for
decades HIV / AIDS.