The Russian Central Research Institute of Epidemiology has developed a new gene therapy medicine for people living with HIV, head of the federal health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, said on Wednesday.
“The Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor created a fundamentally new drug for gene therapy, gene prophylactic treatment and molecular vaccination against HIV.
“A highly active antiviral drug called Dinavir, which will soon be clinically tested, has been created,” Popova said on the sidelines of an international conference on HIV and AIDS in Moscow. The official noted that Russia was facing a number a number of problems related to treatment of HIV and AIDS, including high prices for
treatment and lack of proper medications.
This is very much similar to the problems posed by HIV treatment in Nigeria. Millions of people have been infected with HIV since it was first discovered in early 1980s, prompting the development of drugs that would help tackle the deadly virus.
This is good news to Nigeria where it is estimated that every 5 out of 100 persons (5%) has HIV/AIDS. The number of people living with HIV vary from 1 to 12 in every 100 persons in the various states of the country. In 2004, an estimated 3.2 to 3.8 million Nigerians have been infected by HIV making Nigeria the third highest prevalence rate worldwide; next to South Africa and India.
Though the rate of daily infection of HIV has dropped significantly due to efforts of the federal government, civil society organizations, multinational organisations, private individuals, among others; people living with the disease in Nigeria are desperately looking for “HIV cure”.
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Sam John T. Smile
Bad news... It would have been a good news if the drug is manufactured and produced in the market for public consumption before announcing it. But with this announcement, America will ensure the drug is silenced and never surface again. That is the bad news. America will never allow a permanent cure for HIV AIDS.
Endy Edeson
Sam; Why won't America allow permanent cure of HIV? Is it because Russia and America are rivals? Sam John T. Smile
Mba Obinna
Great