Skip to main content

FG Orders Investigation Of Claims To HIV Cure


The Federal Government has mandated the National Institute for Medical Research and the College of Medicine, Ibadan to do proper study of the two claims to HIV cure in Nigeria.

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, disclosed this on Monday in Ilorin at the Federal Government Town Hall meeting for the North Central Zone.

A Nigeria university don, Prof. Maduike Ezeibe, recently claimed to have found a cure for the virus.



The minister, who was responding to questions on the position of government on the claims, said getting a cure would be of public health interest to the country.

According to him, Nigeria has about three million people infected with HIV, the second highest number in the world after South Africa.

The minister, however, said that there were modalities recognised globally for disclosure of cure which must be followed.

“What we need to do is to make sure that things are done properly.

“The process to undertake is the animal experiment to be sure it is efficacious and safe before moving to human.

“At the appointed time when we have the results, we shall come public,” he said.

Adewole said that the government was close to achieving the promise to make 10,000 Primary Health Care (PHC) service centres available to Nigerians.

He disclosed that the European Union was investing in 650 PHC centres and the British government was funding 950.

The minister said the FCT Administration was working to replicate the Federal Government model of PHC centre in the 225 wards in the territory.

On his part, the Minister of State Mines and Steel, Mr Bawa Bwari said government had settled legal encumbrances hindering development of the Ajaokuta Steel Company.

Bwari said that government would soon commence the process of inviting new investors for the start-off of the company to boost industrialisation. (NAN)

Source https://leadership.ng/news/570297/fg-orders-investigation-of-claims-to-hiv-cure

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

IBB set to return to public domain

TWENTY-FOUR  years after he stepped aside on August 27, 1993, following the crisis that trailed the cancellation of the controversial June 12, presidential election, self-styled military president of Nigeria,  Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida is about to return to the public domain again. Award-winning  film maker, Obi Emelonye  earlier in the week announced plans to commence production of  “Badamasi”, a biographical film on the former military leader. Pre-production of the film is scheduled to begin next month and will run till June, 2017. Intimating the press earlier about the project, Emelonye, who flew into the country from London, said, “Badamasi” is a story of love, war, politics, violence, diplomacy, coups, corruption and governance laced with heavy dose of Machiavellian intrigue. He said, his decision to embark on this project was informed by the need to profile a Nigerian leader in a historical, but biographical film, a treatment that has been me...
Post a Comment
Read more

Countries with the easiest Visa procedures for International Students

Over time, studying abroad has actually become more accessible to students in a number of countries. You only need to do your research well enough to reveal these countries with good tertiary institutions and relatively easy visa procedures for international students, and take advantage of their offers.  Jumia Travel, the leading online travel agency, shares 4 countries with the easiest visa procedures for international students.  Canada  Canada is considered as one of the top study destinations in the world because of its great universities, reasonable cost of living and beautiful environment and landscape. The country has quite an easy procedure for students to apply for study visas. The process basically requires the student to first apply for and gain entry into a Canadian university and then obtain a Canadian study permit, which is renewable for the length of the students study period. The best part of a Canadian study visa is that, not only can an individual stu...
Post a Comment
Read more

CBN recovers over N51.9bn illegally deducted by commercial banks and returns it to the customers.

The Central bank Nigeria has recovered the said amount of money which were illegally deducted from the customer’s account by most Nigeria Commercial banks in all part of the country. These ill acts by the other banks were bitterly condemned by the chief bank (CBN) because it depicts the country’s banking standard and harm the poor masses. The CBN Acting Director, corporate communications, Mr. Isaac Okorafor, made these open without fear or favor in Port Harcourt during an ongoing interactive section with many stakeholders, south-south zone, and other Union leaders. Mr. Okorafor gave details on how the aforementioned money was discovered and refunded to the poor customers after massive complaints by the customers on illegal funds deduction s from their various accounts by our Nigerian banks. He revealed that the Apex bank is out for the commercial banks if other further news are received from customers. He further stated the actual amount which was illegally deducted by the commerc...
Post a Comment
Read more