{{Zambian Government is set to begin clinical trials next month to establish whether a local herb called Sondashi Formula can cure HIV\/Aids, state television reported on Thursday.}}<\/p>\n
Zambia deputy Health minister Patrick Chikusu said the formula contains “ingredients that block the virus that causes Aids from entering the body cells”.<\/p>\n
“The HIV\/Aids clinical trials in the local herb Sondashi Formula will commence in the next fourteen days, “Dr Chikusu told the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation.<\/p>\n
The country\u2019s former Legal Affairs minister Ludwig Sondashi developed the herbal remedy.<\/p>\n
Lusaka Government recently announced it had set aside about $15164.5 for clinical trials on the herbal remedy.<\/p>\n
Dr Sondashi, also a lawyer, has said he is determined to break through the international market with his herbal remedy which he maintains cures HIV\/Aids.<\/p>\n
In 2007, the former minister dispatched his medicine to South Africa for laboratory tests. <\/p>\n
He has maintained that the efficacy of his traditional remedy, claiming it has cured some people.<\/p>\n
Effects of the HIV pandemic are still visible in Zambia by the increasing number of orphanages around the Southern African nation.<\/p>\n
About 20% of the adult population is infected with HIV in the southern African nation.<\/p>\n
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