UNIBEN Denounces Prof Ibeh’s Claim OVER Cure for HIV/AIDS

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NIGERIA

                                   

Authorities of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), have disowned the Dean of School of Basic Medical Sciences of the University, Prof. Isaiah Ibeh, who claimed to have invented a possible cure for the dreaded HIV/AIDS.

                                                  Prof Ibeh          

Prof. Ibeh had on Tuesday announced the breakthrough in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in Benin, capital of Edo State.

“We are at threshold of making history in the sense that we seem to have with us something that will permanently take care of what overtime seems to have defied all solutions.

“We are talking about the latest discovery of an oral drug made from plant extraction in Nigeria for the possible cure of the pandemic, HIV and AIDS virus,” Prof Ibeh had said in the interview.

But reacting to enquiries from journalists in his office, the Provost, College of Medical Sciences of UNIBEN, Prof. Vincent Iyawe, said the university has not endorsed the claims of Prof. Ibeh for now because the institution was not “carried along” in the research.

“The school would like to take credit for a breakthrough, but the school cannot align with the breakthrough because the college was not consulted, the university was not consulted, he did not carry anybody along.

“There are protocols and procedures.  Going from stage to stage, we give it clinical trials which will take it to the Federal Ministry of Health to do clinical trial and many other things involved. We will equally have to take it to NAFDAC, and many other things have to be done before you come out with your claims, and even take it to the World Health Organization,” Prof. Iyawe said.

According to the College Provost, all the university was doing was to protect Prof. Ibeh and the integrity of UNIBEN.

When asked for comment on his next line of action, the inventor of the alleged HIV/AIDS cure, Prof. Ibeh declined, adding, “I will naturally maintain a studied silence.”