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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Another Breakthrough In AIDS Treatment!

Another Breakthrough In AIDS Treatment!

A team of Nigerian scientists have found what could be termed a novel treatment for Human Immune-deficiency Virus (HIV) infection that may reduce greatly the cost of treatment.
The team of scientists includes 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.
The group were 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.
Reports say:


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.

14 comments:

  1. From the creation God greatly blessed Naija, but some human factors are preventing us from maximising our God-given potentials.

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  2. Minister for Science and Tech, where are thou??????

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  3. Who said our country isn't endowned?Gods own country!!!Success to you guys mehn.

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  4. Naija talent no go Area, every has it! We shall take our place in the world soon. Support Goodluck Jonathan for better naija! Godluck 2015

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    1. go sit down jor..........how long jona don dey there?

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  5. Nigeria is a great and talented Nation. if and only if we will stop being selfish. we are made for greatness. God bless Nigeria.

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  6. So u min we should start fucking without condom ba?....#komfam

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  7. Nigerian scientists are aome of the best in the world.

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  8. Nigeria is a great along with skilled Region. I hope this definitely places a stop to help HIV along with surely these people discover the aids cure vaccine.

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