A Professor of Veterinary Medicine and Clinical Virology at the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike (MOUAU) in Abia State says he has cured over 500 Nigerians and foreigners of HIV/AIDS with the medicine he invented. The medicine is known as Medicinal
Synthetic Aluminum Magnesium Silicate (MSAMS).
He also said that investigation into using the medicine to treat cancer was in progress.
Prof. Maduike Ezeibe, the Head of Department of Veterinary Medicine in MOUAU, said he has spent over N5 million on the 22-year-old research effort for the invention of a medicine for the cure of HIV and offering free treatment to the patients. He said more patients were still pouring in.
The veterinary medicinal expert told newsmen in his office in Umudike that the he has successfully defended, worldwide, the drug he invented for the cure of HIV and that it has been accepted.
Ezeibe, who said he has gotten the patent right to produce the drugs in Nigeria, is, therefore, appealing to the Nigerian government to help him get the international patency for the medicine, saying it has the potentials of spinning dollars for the country like crude oil.
“We have done extensive tests on animals because that is my own area, I am a veterinarian,” he said. He added that when people started coming to him, he asked their doctors to write applications on their behalf, after reading their literature on their medicine.
According to him, 10 persons, comprising three men and seven women in Abuja were treated of HIV/AIDS between eight and 10 months.
He also disclosed that apart from being anti-retroviral medicine, MSAMS has ability to make other medicines work better.
“In other words, I am saying that Nigeria is wasting time because we have something that can give us plenty money, that can even compete with petroleum because HIV, by God’s grace, will soon disappear. But other medicines will always remain there, thousands and millions of them, that need to be potentiated,” he said.
“The anti-retroviral, yes, there is money to make there; there will be more money in using it to potentiate other drugs.
“What I am saying is that Nigeria should patent this medicine. I have been given the patent right in Nigeria, I have the sole right to produce this medicine in Nigeria. But outside Nigeria, yes, the law cannot protect me and I don’t have the ability to pursue it outside Nigeria, I want the government to take over and patent the drug internationally.
“It becomes national resource because what we are using to produce the drugs are found locally in the country, it is even in Abia here. This thing can give Nigeria billions of dollars,” he added
