Nigerian researcher in phytho-medicine and Director of the Institute of Natural Medicine, University of Abuja, Dr Ben Amodu, has said he has invented a cure for HIV/AIDS....CONTINUE READING
He called on the Federal Government to carry out a clinical trial of the drug he invented for the treatment of the disease.
Addressing a press conference at the secretariat of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Abuja, Amodu said focus should be redirected to the use of alternative medicine in curing diseases that have defied orthodox practice.
In the past, there have been claims by researchers in Nigeria, who said they had found a cure for HIV; but the National Agency for the Control of AIDS and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control have repeatedly dissociated themselves from such claims.
Amodu, who is also the managing director of African Alternative Medicines Hospital, however, argued that diseases termed incurable could now be cured, saying his assertion was based on results from various patients within and outside the country treated and cured with herbs.
He said: “Our claims were subjected to a number of parameters. Before now, we have been treating and curing HIV/AIDS and I make it bold to say so because this is what can be verified.
In other parts of the world, when they have discovery, they come out to say it, but when come comes to Nigeria, they tell you not to talk. Why? For something I have done and I know I’ve gotten it, why would I not speak?”
“I want to give a challenge. Any media organisation should give me any AIDS patients and see if I won’t cure that person…CONTINUE READING>>
