{{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.}}
Zambia deputy Health minister Patrick Chikusu said the formula contains “ingredients that block the virus that causes Aids from entering the body cells”.
“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.
The country’s former Legal Affairs minister Ludwig Sondashi developed the herbal remedy.
Lusaka Government recently announced it had set aside about $15164.5 for clinical trials on the herbal remedy.
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.
In 2007, the former minister dispatched his medicine to South Africa for laboratory tests.
He has maintained that the efficacy of his traditional remedy, claiming it has cured some people.
Effects of the HIV pandemic are still visible in Zambia by the increasing number of orphanages around the Southern African nation.
About 20% of the adult population is infected with HIV in the southern African nation.
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