Findings on traditional anti-AIDS medicine to be announced

The Medical University of South Africa (MEDUNSA) has announced it is just months away from concluding research on an anti-AIDS traditional medicine.

The chief researcher at MEDUNSA's department of family medicine, Patrick Maduna, said the university would make public its findings on the local herbal mixture by the end of the year, but declined to commit himself on the effectiveness of the drug.

He said MEDUNSA would shortly embark on collating and making sense of their research results.

The South African Broadcasting Corporation's radio station, Safm, quoted Maduna as saying: "However, just interacting with the people who are on the project, there are definite indications from a number of those people that they have signs of improving."