Scientists Make Amazing New Breakthrough- HIV/AIDS

 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 nd
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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."

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