As the world waits with bated breath for the outcome of the on-going clinical trial of HIV vaccine in South Africa, scientists in Nigeria appear to have hit the bulleye in the search for the effective medical cure for HIV/AIDS.

A research team at the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike (MOUAU), Abia State led by Prof. Maduike Ezeibe has been able to prove that Medicinal Synthetic Aluminium-magnesium Silicate (MSAMS), which it developed, can cure HIV/AIDS.

The result of the clinical trial of the antiretroviral efficacy of MSAMS in male and female HIV/AIDS patients was published in the British Journal of Medicine & Medical Research 18(11):1-7, 2016; Article no BJMMR.29018.

It was also among the papers presented last Wednesday at the World Virology Conference 2016 held at Texas, U.S. Though Ezeibe could not attend the conference because of his inability to raise money for his flight tickets, the organisers insisted that he sent a video presentation, which was played and applauded at the conference.

Speaking with journalists at the weekend on the apparent lukewarm attitude of Nigeria’s health authorities to his medical breakthrough, the professor of Veterinary Medicine said that since 2014 when he was issued with the national patent right (Ref. No. NG/P/2012/639, 2014) no further step had been taken to commercialise it or get the international patent right by Nigeria.

“We Africans lack confidence in ourselves,” he lamented, adding that the medicine that he had discovered to have antiretroviral properties is an old medicine which had been in use.

“The only science we did is that we discovered that it has charges – negative and positive and since HIV has positive charges, the MSAMS use its negative charges to attract and destroy HIV,” he said.

He said that HIV/AIDS had remained incurable because of the small size of the virus and immune deficiency it causes hence any anti-retroviral medicine that could effectively tackle the problem must be smaller (nano-particles).

According to him, particles of HIV could be as small as 110nm which was why they easily crossed physiological barriers to ‘hide’ in cells of the brain, bone marrow and testes, which existing antiretroviral medicines with bigger molecules could not reach.

Ezeibe explained: “HIV destroys lymphocytes (immune cells that clear infections from organs that are inaccessible to medicines. So, nothing was known that could terminate its infections (and) for that the infection was said to be in ‘sanctuary’.”

The professor reasoned that since Aluminum-magnesium Silicate (AMS) molecular platelets (nanoparticles) are smaller (0.96nm) than HIV, the nanoparticles cross physiological barriers to act on all body cells.

But the snag was that AMS is not found as mineral deposits in Nigeria whereas there are large deposits of Aluminum silicate and magnesium silicate in the country both of which are used as medicines for treatment of animal and human diseases.

So in order to get a purer form of AMS, Ezeibe reacted the two medicinal minerals (Aluminum silicate and magnesium silicate) and the Aluminum magnesium silicate was born, the synthetic medicine that has now been proved to cure HIV/AIDS.

“We are using medicine that is so small that wherever HIV goes it can get there, catch it and destroy it,” he assured.

The efficacy of Ezeibe’s synthetic medicine is already generating interest among medical doctors and those that were involved in the clinical trial have already joined his research team after using the drug to treat their patients with astonishing results.



Interestingly, on the day Ezekiel’s research breakthrough was being presented at the world Virology Conference in Texas, he was also making a presentation before the Senate of MOUAU. It is now expected that the university authorities would take up the advocacy to recognise and commercialise this important breakthrough in medical science by a Nigerian.

Its not a suprise to sight such attitudes coming from our Government towards people who's strive for glory will end up bouncing back on the Nation tomorrow.

Its obvious, his research works are over looked by the Nigerian Health Authorities for support, maybe because they felt been a veterinary Professor he has no business with HIV/AIDS research, failing to understand that the Genesis of almost all human diseases have a zoological relationship with Animals, making him fit to go ahead with his research work in that regard.

The most important thing is not about what science professor is involved with the research work the most important thing is encouraging that Nigerian Professor who can unravels the HIV/AIDS puzzle that has giving people all over the world and scientist alike a sleepless nights for decades.

This is absolutely ingenious!!!

Fantastic discovery. True definition of out-of-the-box thinking... And coming from the world of veterinary medicine.... Wow! This is truly amazing

Been going thru the work myself and I must say that I am impressed with the prospects of this magical discovery.

Medicinal Synthetic Aluminium-Magnesium silicate (MSAMS) nano-particles seem so super effective against HIV indeed.

Honestly, the war against HIV/AIDs has always been a Nano-war because these Hiv viruses have a powerfully evolving lipid bi-layer and protein coat and also has binding receptor sites so tiny even for the many of the most powerful electron microscopes.

From David Ho to Watson + ColdSprings harbor labs, USA and to the Johns Hopkins Virology team, the HIV virus is a hell of a puzzle to solve because of its ability to go dormant and "hide in the remotest and tinest areas" of the body cellular network only to re-emerge and cause worse mayhem when you think the "normal anti-retrovirals" have done their job of surpressing the virus.


Professor Maduike Ezeibe and his team are truly unto something and must be dogged to hold on to the beauty of what such discovery can do to change the world of virology and more. Wow!!! A 2-4 weeks dose of M-SAMS cellularly will kill the HIV virus in all nook and crannies of the human body by drawing/attracting the virus to itself and attaching to its specific receptor points to cause a reaction that will "destroy" the protein coat of the virus thus destroying the virus itself.... Wow!!!


This could be earth-shaking if our health ministry can provide the support. MOUAU should take Prof Ezeibe and his team super seriously and drive this work forward.

The international science community gotta see this and test for themselves. ENVY AND JEALOUSY MUST BE JETTISONED AND CREDIT GIVEN TO WHOM IT IS DUE. We are talking about the lives of millions here and not personal glory but yes Credit must go to whom it is due... To Prof Ezeibe and his team of researchers.

This is beautiful. And if the support is not forthcoming yet... Prof Ezeibe should have in mind the Barry Marshall story of how he cured Peptic Ulcer and destroyed the Ulcer/stress myth.

He must be doggedly dogged.....


Congrats on this work Sir. Nigeria has more to produce and offer in the world of science.....


I just hope the Big Pharma companies making billions of dollars from the sales of the normal anti-retroviral cocktails, taken throughout a lifetime by HIV patients who wanna live longer despite having the virus, don't try to scupper this work.

Thankfully, his work is in a good and reputable journal, the british journal of medicine and medical research and was also presented by a video at the international conference of virology.

But I wish the likes of BMJ (British medical Journal), The Lancet and other worldclass A-rated journals take up this work. Prof Ezeibe can also utilise "BioRxiv" to further make his work super visible.

He ought to be on Google scholar also. Mehn! I'm so excited with this news. And to think that back in 2011 he also published a work on MSAMS and its use in tackling the Avian influenza Virus, shows this man has been working his socks off in the labs.

Prof Ezeibe... You've gotten a new research protege/young learner in me. #AfricaOnTheRiseInScience