Former Public Health Minister and researcher on HIV/AIDS, Prof. Victor Anomah Ngu, 82, and inventor of VANHIVAX vaccine, says he has made a breakthrough in the fight and cure of HIV/AIDS. Prof Anomah Ngu says that his vaccine has cured 18 people of the disease. Anomah Ngu, who was in Buea on Saturday, April 5, at the behest of the Catholic Men Association, CMA, Buea, Buea Diocese, after his insightful talk on HIV/AIDS threw more light on the potentials of VANHIVAX in this exclusive interview with The Post. Excerpts:
Your research work and the VANHIVAX vaccine have become issues of national concern. How much attention have you received from government?
To be frank, it's not very good, especially with the former Minister of Public Health, Urbain Olanguena Awono. He was not very pleased to see me. He didn't treat me too well.
What have been some of your impediments as you make efforts to bring your vaccine to the world?
Some people are still very much in the old school of life. They find it very difficult to accept what we're doing. People are still very ignorant of what we're doing. I can forgive them for that.
What is your relationship with fellow researchers who are in your domain of research?
I have been working with Americans and French researchers. We signed an agreement with them to last from 2002-2003. After these years, I have not heard from them. I don't know if they're making progress since they left.
Prior to your discovery of VANHIVAX, some international organisations had been reportedly pirating your findings. How did you react to that?
A lot of people have tried to copy what we've been doing, yet they have not really understood how we do it.
How successful has VANHIVAX been so far?
Each patient comes with his/her specificity. But the reliability is good. It can cure easily. If you are not so well, we can try and improve on your immune systems, not with drugs. Drugs don't improve on the immune systems.
Some of the people you've cured of HIV are not willing to testify to the public, why not do it on their behalf?
I don't have to do it against their will. I respect their privacy. They don't want to be exposed. I treated somebody in 1988, I asked him to come and testify, he asked me to pay him for that. I was embarrassed! When he was sick, he was thrown out of his family. At the time, there was no treatment, no drugs.
I took care of him, gave him food, cured him and gave him a job. Now, he works with the UN AIDS Programme. He travels first class.
How long does it take to treat somebody whose immune system is still normal?
Two months perhaps. Two or three injections will be enough. If not, that's when the trouble starts.
What will you tell people who don't believe that HIV/AIDS can be cured?
My message is quite simple. We've cured at least, on records, 18 patients. If these 18 patients cannot convince them, then nobody can. People should come and be treated. Even those who have advanced in the disease should come. The sooner they come, the sooner we can start. We have patients who come to us with CD4 of 1. They have taken drugs and it has dropped to CD4 of 3, 4. That makes it easier. Some are already dieing, when they come to us.
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How far have you gone with the international recognition of VANHIVAX?
I have opened a website for the vaccine. The following countries have recognised the vaccine; Nigeria, South Africa and Venezuela. Somebody came from Venezuela to record all what we've been doing with the vaccine.
We understand the government gave you FCFA 5 million to promote your activities, how beneficial has been the money?
It has been useful. I have bought a few things with it. However, five million these days can't take you very far; only equipments have cost me FCFA 7 million.
After VANHIVAX what next?
We want to code the virus in large quantities; HIV1.
What's the future of your clinic after you?
I hope it will go on. I am making efforts for other countries to accept what we're doing and for them to run it. It cannot be run from Yaounde, Cameroon. We want them to be interested, they give us some royalties and we give them the green light to go on. We don't intend to teach the whole world, we cannot.
When did you start research work on VANHIVAX?
I started since 1988. As soon as I retired from the government, I devoted full time to this.
Apart from HIV/AIDS, what other ailments do you treat at your clinic?
We treat Hepatitis B and C, Cancers (all types).
Monday, 07 April 2008 at 02:16 PM in Interviews | Permalink
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Dear esteemed professor: Your research on this very important disease is laudable and no doubt based on scientific principles. But this research must be replicable by the scientific community so that the whole world can give you credit, and you reap the just reward from your labor.
I am vey curious why this is not the case and why so many people the whole world over continue to die everyday from this intractible disease that you have ostensibly discover the cure. I mean if you have really discover the cure, you really merit a Nobel Prize and $$$$$ will beat a path to your door
Posted by: Donbon | Monday, 07 April 2008 at 07:50 PM
I would like to thank the professor what he has supposedly achieved this far but permit me also criticise the professor for his inability to push his vaccine to international recognition. I think its simple to do. If the professor is actually convinced that he has got the right formulae to treat HIV/AIDS, then I believe there is always an international forum where he can take his ideas to and depate if not defend it. It is then at this point that great researchers who find the formulae meaningful will begin to promote the vaccine further. I donot know if prof. has already taken this step but i think its a necessary first step.
Posted by: TabiSweden | Tuesday, 08 April 2008 at 03:49 AM
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