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[brother]

Quote: By Barnaby Phillips in Abuja

Nigeria is in the grip of controversy over the unproven claims of a doctor who says he has found a cure for the HIV virus.

It is not the kind of place you would expect to stumble across one of history's great scientific breakthroughs - but the Nigerian public are queuing up in droves outside Dr Jeremiah Abalaka's private clinic in a dusty township outside Abuja.

He denies they are desperate people who have fallen for a con-trick. Rather, they are the lucky ones - amongst the first people in the world to discover that HIV can be cured.

"They are coming because the drug is working, the drug is working," says Dr Abalaka.

"The person who comes to me who is losing weight, who has recurrent fever, by the time he takes a shot or two, he discovers he's feeling better, he's putting on weight, he's sleeping, his fever has disappeared."

Patient trust

Dr Abalaka says he does not only have a cure for HIV - he even has a vaccine to prevent you contracting the virus.

He says he has already cured 29 people - not enough to write a scientific paper on his findings, but with 800 patients now signed up, that will soon come.

In the meantime, he is becoming a rich man - his medication costs hundreds of dollars. His patients will do anything to get the money - and they have faith in him

"I believe, and I'm getting better," one told me. "I feel much better. I trust the doctor, he's doing the job."

But the treatment comes at a price.

"I've sold all my properties, everything I have, I've even sold my house, to come here and pay for the course, and to save my life."

Soldiers 'cured'

Dr Abalaka is the man of the moment in Nigeria. Newspaper editorials extol his virtues almost every day.

A senior general recently announced that 30 soldiers who had the HIV virus have been cured by him. Soldiers guard his clinic, and he says he is now supplying the military with more vaccines.

Government officials are wary of criticising Doctor Abalaka in public.

More than a year after this controversy started, a definitive statement on his alleged findings has not been made.

Paul Okwulehie is an official of the government's aids control programme.

"In order not to rush into rash, erroneous conclusions, government has to act slowly but steadily and surely and logically, in order for government to make a definitive pronouncement," he said.

Wonder vaccine

Dr Abalaka says it would be unreasonable and unpatriotic for him to reveal the scientific details of his cure right now - but he will do so when he has the Nigerian president's support.

In the mean-time, he has laid down a dramatic challenge to his detractors.

"I will publicly take HIV-infected blood - fresh blood - and I'll inject myself publicly.

"If I fail to develop HIV, having done that, that is scientific proof that something is preventing me from catching it - the vaccine."

In fact, Dr Abalaka says he has already injected himself with HIV-infected blood six times, but his vaccine has always protected him.

Some other Nigerian doctors have started using his cure, and have reported encouraging results. A major international drugs company has become curious about his activities.

In private, Nigerian Government officials are appalled by the confused and hesitant response to the Abalaka phenomenon.

With more than 5% of Nigeria's huge population believed to be HIV positive, the country is on the verge of a terrible epidemic - answers are urgently needed.






http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/740523.stm


This article is from 8th May 2000

[brother]

The story continues

London journal publishes Abalaka's HIV vaccine report

Quote: ABUJA— MEDICAL  Director of Medicrest Specialist Hospital, Dr. Jeremiah Abalaka has had his report detailing his attempts to cure and prevent HIV/AIDS published for medical experts in search of cure to the disease to appreciate.



Abalaka’s report, which was published by Elsevier Limited, in a London-based medical journal, Vaccine, emphasizes a vaccine-based solution to the problem.


In the preceding editorial to the report by R.E. Spier of the School of Biomedicine and Molecular Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, U.K., Spier said there were several features of the report that set it apart “from the papers that appear regularly in this journal.


“Firstly, readers will notice that I have agreed with the author that he need not present a detailed description of how he made his vaccine. He will, however provide those details in full to those who contact him directly and are prepared to sign an agreement about the use to which the information may give rise.


“Additionally, he has provided this author with a detailed account of the process he uses so that I am able to assure readers that to the best of my understanding, the method he employed is at least a plausible approach to a vaccine.”


Spier said that another  area of contention was the validity of the “essays quoted in the report. While Abalaka did everythning in his power to make sure that these gave reliable indications of blood parameters following treatment/vaccination, it is always possible that such data may be fabricated.


“My assessment of this situation is that data are as real as they can be. As the method section relates, some of the testing was based on the use of kits derived from recognized Western laboratories and the patients who were interested in knowing more about their condition and its progress bore the costs of the tests.


“Another question is, are the quoted assays telling us the way the situation really is? It is well known, and recognized by Abalaka and others, that the way samples are handled can affect results considerably and this is particularly so in a country like Nigeria, with a hot ambient temperature most of the year.


“Indeed when all the assays data are put together, there does not seem to be much effect of the repeated treatment/vaccinations on either increases in weight or increases in the CD4+ counts, though these rose slightly in the regression analyses”.


He added: “There are two further pieces of this work that need comment. One is that Abalaka noted that the antibodies for both HIV and Hepatitis-C virus as well as Hepatitis-B surface antigen changed from positive to negative levels following the treatment/vaccination procedure.

“In any case these data are remarkable as they fly in the face of current concepts of immunology. They are presented here to stimulate further checking and investigating. We should also take note that there is much current work in the West on the co-infection with the GBV-C virus to lower levels of HIV in human patients”.


He noted the claim by Abalaka that he had infected himself with “heterologous blood of a patient who is known to express high levels of antibody to HIV”, consequent upon which he had his blood tested in recognized laboratories in London, which confirmed the negative findings of the African laboratories.


Spier stated in the final analysis: “As ever in the developing world the time is short and the prevailing situation demands action. The infection rate of the indigenous population is rising and the lethal consequences are all too apparent. Desperate situations call for desperate measures. I believe Abalaka has risen to this challenge.


“I also hold that within the limitations of his situation he has sought with diligence and conscientiousness to faithfully record the evidence as it appears to him; warts and all. The standards he has achieved are not those of the developed world, but I believe he has at least opened an approach that were greater resources available to him, might well be examined in more detail and in ways that generate data that those in the developed world could consider reliable and conclusive. It is in this light that I agree to publish the report of Dr. Jeremiah Abalaka”.



http://www.odili.net/news/source/2004/sep/21/304.html


This is from 20th September 2004

[brother]

The incredible story carries on

Quote:




Derided at home, Jeremiah Abalaka takes vaccines to World Congress
By Okanu Emelumba
Saturday, September 2, 2006



Despite the derision given his vaccines in the country, irrepressible advocate of alternative medicine, Dr. Jeremiah Abalaka is to address a World Congress on Vaccines, Immunization and Immune-therapy holding in Montreal, Canada to prove efficacy of his vaccine.

In what may sound like a case of a prophet not giving recognition in his homeland, especially after successive governments had passed his vaccines off in the country, taking a cue from Dr. Tim Menakaya who announced a ban on it in 2000, the outcome might open new vistas for ‘Prophet’ Jeremiah afterall.

“Come November, specifically, between 6 and 9 of November this year, I will address the Scientific programme of the World Conference on Vaccines on his contribution to the fight against HIV/AIDS. My paper is titled A Preliminary Evidence of Efficacy from an open label trial of therapeutic HIV Vaccine derived from the blood of HIV positive donors.”

The battle within
At a period when the world is in a mad rush for anti-retroviral drugs, Abalaka insists Nigerians and the world at large should take advantage of his therapy as the solution to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. But that was a fight he started seven years ago when he stirred the hornets’ nest with a big bang in the medical history of Nigeria.

A general surgeon with additional training in immunology, Abalaka had every reason to be concerned about the spread of this deadly virus, he had in 1996, turned himself into a guinea pig for experimentation.

Without government support, Abalaka, through his lean resources, researched and developed a vaccine that is expected to curb the menace of HIV. Then came another big obstacle. But the then Health Minister, Dr. T. Menakaya announced a ban on the doctor’s HIV vaccines and passed Abalaka off as a quack.

That singular action drew his ire. “I planted the yam. I used myself as a guinea pig. And when it was time to reap from my sweat, they told me I couldn’t. Can you imagine this happening in my country, Nigeria?”

Off to court
Swiftly, Abalaka moved to the Federal High Court, Abuja with the Justice Chukwura Nnamani presiding. He prayed the court to order an interlocutory injunction restraining the Federal Government and its agents from banning his vaccines. In a record two months, Nnamani delivered justice. Abalaka won. But after justice was delivered, there was a lull occasioned by powerful and persistent propaganda machinery against Abalaka’s HIV vaccines. At a point, Nigerians were wondering if Dr. Abalaka was still treating HIV/AIDS patients with his vaccines.

“I got justice in a record two months. Since then, I have been applying my vaccines on willing Nigerians and non-Nigerians. Even the Australian Government, after obtaining the details of what my HIV vaccines contain, granted permission to a patient from there to import my vaccine for his use. But here in Nigeria, all we know is to pull down other fellow citizens. I still say it that I have effective and safe HIV preventive and curative vaccines for whoever wishes to have them. Yes, I indeed have a cure for the dreaded HIVpandemic.”

Global exposure
This is not the first exposure coming the way of Abalaka’s vaccine. “In September 2004, a pre-eminent international UK-based medical Journal, The Vaccine, published my HIV vaccine’s research. The following year, another medical journal, the International Journal of Andrology, published my work in Chinese language (remember that roughly one out of every five human beings is Chinese). No doubt, these are huge feats of uncommon acclaim. So, we felt there was every need to make the doctor talk on these landmark developments. Someone volunteered his phone number. A brief chat on the phone did the magic.”

Today, his hospital, Medicrest Specialist Hospital is a beehive of activity. Located at Gwagwalada, Abuja, it is a place where any bike rider will show effortlessly. Could it be that simple? Well, it was indeed that simple. The very first bike rider knew the place.
The Medicrest Specialist Hospital is in Central Gwagwalada. When you arrive there, you are immediately confronted with the Hospital’s walls. Security is not compromised. You must be on appointment to walk through the huge black gates.

Despite the fact that Dr. Abalaka, who hails from Kogi State was widowed in 2002, he remains a very simple man with an infectious smile on his face.

‘Why they frustrated me’
But one thing he would not conceal is that some people in high places were against his vaccine. “From the beginning, government agents knew my vaccines were authentic. But, they moved to frustrate my effort. They had their reasons. Trust Nigerians. Many would do anything to earn free money, even at the expense of the lives of numerous HIV/AIDS patients.”

According to him, the vaccines were frustrated because “certain people in power preferred the HIV/AIDS donations from developed nations for controlling the HIV/AIDS disease to any effective and safe curative and preventive remedies that do not come from the developed nations. They know that if they support my HIV vaccines in any way, those donations would cease.”
How they are spending the various donations coming for HIV/AIDS, he said still remains a different kettle of fish altogether.

 



http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/living/2006/sept/02/living-02-09-2006-004.htm


This is from 2nd September 2006

[brother]

I have always heard and believed that large pharmaceticul companies would never really want a cure for anything as there is so much money to be made from treatment to slow down the disease, and people who do find cures are usually bought out or suppressed by the might of these large firms and the discoveries (cures) usually never see the light of day so they (large pharmaceticul companies) can carry on making their huge profit margins and this story imo proves that point to an extent.

Your thoughts please.

[brother]

Quote: Nigerian doctor claims Aids cure
A Nigerian doctor claims to have found a cure for the virus that leads to Aids.

Jeremiah Abalaka, of the Medicrest Specialist Hospital in Gwagwalada, developed the ''cure'' from the blood of HIV positive patients.

He claims to have invented both a preventative vaccine, to stop people from becoming HIV positive, and a therapeutic vaccine, to cure those already infected.

Abalaka, whose claims have been published in the scientific journal Vaccine, claims to have ''cured'' 20 people who were formerly HIV positive.

Abalaka, a general surgeon with training in immunology, says he has tested his cure on almost 4,000 HIV positive patients over six years.

To test the preventive vaccine, he says he inoculated himself before injecting himself with HIV-positive blood on six separate occasions. He says he did not contract the virus.

He then tested the vaccine on about 300 HIV-negative people and says none has yet developed the infection, as far as he knows.

His work has caused huge controversy in Nigeria, causing wrangles between Abalaka and the Nigerian ministry of health.

"I have successfully developed safe, preventive and curative vaccines against HIV," Abalaka told New Scientist. "I would like to see the world looking into my work to confirm or refute it."

But Saladin Osmanov, acting co-ordinator of the joint World Health Organization/UNAIDS HIV vaccine initiative, warned that Abalaka''s vaccine had not been independently reviewed by experts.
Provided by The Student Zone (United Kingdom)


http://www.thestudentzone.com/articles/article.php?CountryID=22&ContentID=1506

[Xenos 2Fan]

If it is true then its a great victory against this terrifying illness. I'm still very hesitant to believe this story. I hope it is true so that we may put aids into the annals of history.

I would not put it past pharmaceutical companies to suppress a cure since everything in the modern world comes down to the bottom line. Sad but true.

[brother]

Don't you find it strange that with 4000 people cured the WHO has in 6 years failed to test his vaccine and makes no comment against it either and just leaves the corrupt Nigerian Health Ministry to have a war of words with him.

[Xenos 2Fan]

brother wrote: Don't you find it strange that with 4000 people cured the WHO has in 6 years failed to test his vaccine and makes no comment against it either and just leaves the corrupt Nigerian Health Ministry to have a war of words with him.

Yes I agree with you. It is strange that no one has come forth to test his drugs/vaccine. That's why I find the story hard to believe. Perhaps the WHO just does not take this guy seriously. I just don't know. :dunno:

[thebrix]

Xenos 2Fan wrote: If it is true then its a great victory against this terrifying illness. I'm still very hesitant to believe this story. I hope it is true so that we may put aids into the annals of history.

I would not put it past pharmaceutical companies to suppress a cure since everything in the modern world comes down to the bottom line. Sad but true.

Well ... friendly fire:

http://www.nigeria-aids.org/reports.cfm?read=1

I must admit I cried BS when I read that the scientist would not release his results unless the President of Nigeria backed him; the normal process would be for the results to be released, as quickly as possible, for peer review ...