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GHANAIAN CHEMIST MAKES HEADWAY IN HIV CURE

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? A leading edge research in drug creation for a more viable treatment of HIV has been made.


The examination which was finished in somewhere around six years found new focuses in the HIV infection that medications can be created in the treatment of the sickness.


The exploration was embraced by a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Ghana (UG), Legon, Dr Jerry Joe Harrison.


As per him, drugs targets explicit proteins in the infection "and this is one that we never knew, and now that we realize we can utilize it to foster more successful medications against HIV".

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In a meeting with the Daily Graphic after a public commitment on the point "Pursuing a riddle: Unmasking the secret on HIV polyproteins for potential medication improvement" coordinated by the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of the UofG, Dr Harrison said the new exploration found new focuses on that drug explicit proteins could be created for the HIV infection.


Up until recently, as per Dr Harrison this medication focus on that had been found was not known however with the new exploration, which was finished in the United States of America (USA), medications can be delivered to focus on the infection in the human body explicitly. He said anyone could get to the data on the new medication sythesis remembering individuals for the medication advancement field, drug organizations who are keen on creating HIV medications and people who need to investigate and comprehend how the viurs duplicates itself, at no expense.


The majority of the trial work of the examination which he said was supported by the National Institute of Health, USA was finished in the USA and settled in Ghana.


Benefits and impediments


Emeritus Professor Ivan Addae-Mensah, Department of Chemistry, UG in a board conversation recognized Dr. Harrison for the advanced exploration.


He said the momentum research has had the option to go into the personal sub-atomic level to decide the construction of one of the stages through which the replication of the HIV infection goes. This he expressed serves to intentionally plan a compound that would proceed to meddle explicitly with that specific stage and stop it.


In any case, he said this technique enjoys its benefits and disservices as the HIV infection had the capability of changing as and when it is gone after, it additionally attempt to stay away from annihilation.


Notwithstanding, he said in the event that one can focus whatever number enzemes as could be allowed and obliterate them rather than the general screening of medications to figure out which one inhibites which enzeme.


He said the flow research was an import part of an enormous 'zigsaw' that should be fixed making sense of that the exploration would additionally help in planning more powerful techniques for the treament of HIV. A Professor at the University of Ghana's Nutrition and Food Science Department, Matilda Steiner-Asiedu who addressed the Provost of College of Basic and Applied Sciences, UG, Professor Boateng Onwona?Agyeman, approached the understudies present to apply what they realize at the college to settle life issues.


She recognized Dr harrison for considering new ideas during his examination to have the option to emerge with the outcomes and approached all to utilize cooperation in anything they do.


Dr Mary Anti Chama, Head of Department of Chemistry who addressed the Dean of the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Prof. Sandow Mark Yidana, said the revelation has given another knowledge into the science of the HIV cells.

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