Maurice Iwu And A Team Of Scientists Records Breakthrough In the Treatment HIV/AIDS
By www.dailytimes.com.ng
http://www.spyghana.com/maurice-iwu-and-a-team-of-scientists-records-breakthrough-in-the-treatment-hivaids/

Former Chairman of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Professor Maurice Iwu is among a team of scientists that has recorded a breakthrough in the treatment of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).

Iwu and his team mates have discovered an oral botanical drug called Crofelemer which the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved as healthy and potent for the treatment of the dreaded disease.

The latest invented drug is the second botanical, and an orally administered drug to be approved by FDA since 2006.

The former INEC chairman is an acclaimed pharmacologist and tropical medicine expert.

It would be recalled that the first botanical drug to be approved in the United States was a tropical green tea extract, Veregen, in 2006.
However, the drug, Crofelemer is the first to be approved in the United States to treat HIV -associated diarrhoea.

Crofelemer was from the latex of the South American sangre de drago tree (dragon’s blood, Croton lechleri). A red, blood-resembling latex leaks from the tree when its bark is cut, and it is this substance that contains the novel polymolecular structure crofelemer, originally developed and standardised by Shaman Pharmaceuticals. Fulyzag is the second botanical drug approved by the agency. The drug’s approval marks an important event in the decades-long history of crofelemer.’’

The latest ‘’Healthnews,’’ in a report entitled, ‘’Nigeria’s Maurice Iwu, others record breakthrough in HIV/AIDS treatment: Amazon tree-derived medicine cleared for usage in HIV patients with diarrhea,’’ stated, ‘’On New Year’s Eve of 2012, the US Food and Drug Administration announced its approval of crofelemer, marking the second time a botanical, and the first time an orally administered botanical, has received drug approval from the Administration. The first botanical drug to be approved in the United States was a topical green tea extract, Veregen in 2006. Both botanical drugs meet all US pharmaceutical requirements and can be dispensed only by prescription.

“The latest breakthrough owes its success to a pioneering research carried out in the United States by a team of scientists which included Nigeria’s Professor Maurice Iwu, an acclaimed pharmacologist and tropical medicine expert.” The news said.


^^^^ Finally Iwu has found something useful to do.That is why Nigeria has not tackled its critical issues head on due to putting the wrong people in the wrong places.After which they refuse to change them even where it becomes evident they are not performing. Atleast Iwu is better off a researcher in his original line of study.If he had remained in INEC only God knows his fate.CONGRATs sha!!! Good one.