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  • HIV, HPV red flags fly over 2025 Valentine’s Day (2)

    HIV, HPV red flags fly over 2025 Valentine’s Day (2)

    The Tree Man gave me a health shocker when I saw his photograph for the first time on the internet about 20 years ago. I was researching  Human Papillo Virus and I thought I was seeing a small tree or, at best, a thicket which had grown and formed itself in human shape. Alas, The Tree Man was, really, a man, whose skin had abnormally grown semblances  of small plants on his body. What could have gone wrong with his body? The first time I published his photograph in this column, its caused butterflies to fly in the stomachs of many readers, especially those who had small warts growing in different parts of their bodies.Who would know he or she has warts on the body and that the troubles of the The Tree Man came from warts who would not be afraid that he or she, too, could be become a tree man or a tree woman, and not take exception to the publication? This is one of the reasons I appreciate public health campaign of the World Health Organisation (WHO) to make Nigerians girls and women vaccinate against infection of Human Papillo Virus( HPV). This virus is a root cause of the problem of tree man, and has been shown to cause cancers and other unforgettable and disabling health troubles in the cervix and Vagina.Nevertheless, I stand with those persons who have reservations about vaccinations for all sorts of  reasons, especially the fear that only the future can tell what abnormalist will come with each vaccination.  As a child, my parents submited me  to the authorities for polio and small pox vaccinations.May be that is why I am polio and small pox free till today.That has not left me off guard.Haven’t we been hearing for decades that vaccination against small pox may be a root cause of the cancer pandemic world wide today? This is why this column will offer  some  plant medicines suggestions for fighting human Papillo Virus. Before then, I will like to introduce to you the tree man…

    Dede  Koswara, The Tree Man

    The following report comes from the internet…

    “The  Tree Man was Dede Koswara, an Indonesian man who suffered from a rare genetic disorder called Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis (EV). This condition made him extremely susceptible to human papillomavirus (HPV), which caused uncontrollable growth of warts resembling tree bark on his skin.

    “Koswara’s warts started growing when he was 10 years old, and by the time he was an adult, they had spread to his face, arms, and legs, making everyday activities extremely challenging. His condition earned him the nickname “Tree Man” due to the tree-like appearance of his warts.

    HPV is a common virus that can cause various diseases, including: Warts…Benign growths on the skin or mucous membranes.

    Cervical cancer…A type of cancer that affects the cervix in women. Other anogenital cancers…Cancers that affect the anus, vulva, vagina, or penis.Oropharyngeal cancer…A type of cancer that affects the throat and tonsils.

    Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis (EV)… A rare genetic disorder that makes individuals highly susceptible to HPV and increases their risk of developing skin cancer.

    “Koswara’s story was widely shared, and he underwent several surgeries to remove the warts, but they continued to grow back. Unfortunately, he passed away in 2016 due to complications related to his condition”.

    Wart and HPV

    Valentine’s Day 2025, that is last Friday, provided the health community in Nigeria an opportunity to talk about HPV and the relationship with cancer formation in the private  place of young girls and women. This is because  many persons itching to lay off emotional or other forms of steem from stress easily late themselves hurtle down heel at this time in the hope of regaining some balance. Girls and women become easily more endangered in such a season than men are.  It is often not written on the faces of men that they are HPV positive. A careful woman  may not easily discover that she bears HPV within. Some of them have organs which only special medical examination can detect. Even when they are visible, how many women know what they portend or can recoil at the last moment? Perhaps the ones that may put off a woman may be the open sores which may heal now and then during remissions. Beyond all of these, HPV is transmissible through the skin. Beyond skin transmission, also, all sorts of unwholesome events take place in the act. A long time ago, this column feature a gentleman under the title…The Man Who Puts His Mouth in The Wrong Place. In the days of youthful exuberance, I would have hit the nail on the head or call a spade a spade and not an agricultural implement, as we say. His gums were roughened up, his teeth shaking in their sockets and the mucus lining of his inner cheeks bombarded with mucus-filled tiny growths, the type Yorubas call Owo Eyo (cowry money)  because they have the circular shape of coins . A lucky man he was. He recovered in months, on  Propolis Syrup, sprayed into the mouth and swirled around with his blisters, and patched tongue.He was a victim of oral sex. Some women, too, fall victim to men who, through oral sex, may introduce HPV or other pathogens into their bodies through their mouths.Women may suspect a man if he is unusually  fatigued, itches even anally and discharges or experiences painful urination.Some of the signs a girl or woman may watch out for are…genital warts, Small, flat, or raised growths on the penis, scrotum, anus, or groin area, anal warts, small, flat, or raised growths around the anus, penile lesions, abnormal growths or sores on the penis, Anal itching or bleeding, Itching, bleeding, or discharge from the anus. The age brackets WHO is targeting especially for HPV vaccination is the 11-18 years generation.This generation of girls is likely to still be in secondary, sexually active, careless about sexual safety and unable “to do something when they see something”. This is one of the main reasons, as I said earlier, why HPV vaccination is fascinating.

    Options to Vaccination

    In nature, there is nothing which exists, however powerful, which has no antidote. That is why snakes flee from bitter kola and an army of African black ants, rocket and stubborn as its may be, will disperse when its encounters wood ash on the way. A few decades ago, a doctor in Europe produced a machine that could easily become a master piece invention of our time. It was founded on the principles of healing diseases with natural vibration or natural radiations. If you know the vibration or radiation status of any germ, and you can set the machine to produce a counter vibration or radiation, and you  can hold a terminal of the machine to pass the vibration or radiation through your body to the pathogen, you will block  the pathogen from existence and destroy it just as one radio station frequency can jam another radio frequency out of operation. The medical establishment rejected this machine and branded its author a crank, to protect pharmaceutical medicine and established medical practice  from possible effacement. In Lagos, I tried to produce this machine from the simple electrical design she got out free in that book. But I could not find an electrical engineer who was interested in such a project.

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    This leaves us with the life forces or radiation in plant medicine  which may have been designed as a stepping stone to this age of technology when mankind, working with mother nature and utilising her principles, would elevate proceedings on earth to higher levels. Medical science tells us pharmaceutical medicine  cannot successfully address viruses. That is why virus challenged persons may  live with them for life. They have been challenges to this world view. First, can we not minimise bacterial and fungal load to zero tolerance with such proprietory formula as Amazon A-F, to minimise work load of the immune system and then fortify it with Amazon  A-V designed against viruses with about 10 medicinal  extracts from well known antiviral plants? I witnessed the recovering  from occult blood and ulcerative colitis by a Septuagenarian who used Pau D’arco to save himself from surgery. I have heard of how prosta care helped many persons on catheter recover from their prostrate gland trouble. We may observe from www.medicinenet.com how the fellowing herbs fight Inflamation, viruses and even slow the growth of cancers… oregano, lemon balm, tumeric, licorice, Astragalus, garlic, holy basil, black elderberry, Echinaea, zinc, Rishi mushroom, myrrh e.t.c. What may be the biggest evidence may be the story of Dr Samuel Johnson. I reported recently that this Nigerian  practised medicine for 47 years in the United States before he was struck by prostate cancer, and of how the ravages of stage 4 prostate cancer made his doctors give him only three months to lived, where upon he returned to Nigeria to die, but was given a protocol of herbs which quelled the cancer and he  has lived on for almost one year. This week, I sought audience with him again. He is willing to share his story. He offered free consultation on the remedies he used. Currently, he is busy on a huge medical project in which he is supported by the United nations Development Project (UNDP) and the African Development Bank (ADB). His survival story promises to be a very interesting one for all men challenged with prostate cancer.

    Girls, Women and Mother Nature

    In the first part of this series, I mentioned the admonition in a spiritual work which inspired my interest in natural medicine. Its says: Neither Drug Nor Injections But The Right Kinds of Foods And Drinks Alone Bring Lasting Health. I was inpired also by the admonition that no tumour or cancer can grow in the human body with a healthy liver.  I have also learned from this work that our environment is not a decoration but filled with messages for the wise to learn from. Why do green plants fill everywhere? In my  thirties, older men and women who were custodians of this Creation Knowledge told me the blood of man was made from the blood of plants. It was in my 60s, about 30 years later, that four scientists who won the Noble Prize in medicine unlocked the secret for me. Their work said the green Chlorophyl pigment of plant and the Haemoglobin, the red pigment in the red blood cells of humans, are  of the same structure…Carbon, Hyrogen, Nitrogen and Oxygen. The only difference is that Magnesium holds this structure together in chlorophyl while Iron holds it together in Haemoglobin. Thus, when we eat green plants or drink their juices, the body uses them to recharge and to cleanse our blood after replacing the Magnesium with Iron.This knowledge led me to write an article in the 1990s titled…. Let’s drink green, the earth is not green for the fun of it. Soon after, the first chlorophyl drinks and powder products appeared on the shelves of Nigerian health food stores.

    The greens and their Chlorophyl have Oxygen content in them.Germs cannot survive in oxygenated environment.How many girls and women consume chlorophyl drinks? The liver easily detoxifies itself when bigger principles are consumed in foods. Many girls and  women hate to eat bitter things. However, some of them change when I tell them of a Yoruba  saying of the elders… Ota Enu Ni ore Inu (The mouth’s enemy is the friends of the organs!).Thus, rather than waste the next Aloe Vera leaf gel on hair treament, juice and drink it on  a meal or empty  stomach. Its miracles will impact the hair from within! Eat orange peel, plantain peel, banana peel e.t.c. Dr. Max Gerson theorised that cancer and other tumours develop only when  there is not enough potassium  in the cell or when  there is too much  sodium in the cell. The cell will therefore have a weak Sodium- Potasium Pump, lose oxygen intake and become fermentative.These and other factors may be why the breast and the cervix have become prone to cancer in our generation. I tend to believe Dr Max Gerson because many Nigerian women today cannot do without Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) in their  cooking as a taste enchancer. You may say  that  MSG occurs naturally in foods. Yes, that is  organic MSG formulated under different conditions of radiations than the factory-made in organic MSG.  In nature, the radiations which form MSG and other nutrients do not attack or destroy themselves as they happen in factory formulations.

    This is not where I am going in respect of  HPV, vaccination for girls and women.

    The Germ Theory

    Some persons believe HPV Vaccination is necessary. Others believe it is a ruse to milk poor nations. After all, the U.S gave Africa 500 U.S.D HIV drugs to make the users become dependent on them before the  subvention is withdrawn. No one as yet knows implications of HIV vaccination.All we are hearing is that HPV can cause cancer.That  was how Louis- Pasteur sold the idea that  germs cause diseases and pasteurisation began which killed the life force in fooods, and Dr Edward Jenner, Robert konch  and their  likes began vaccination medicines against small pox, bacteria and other diseases in the late 18th century.

    Isn’t it only now  that we are wondering  why two persons were exposed to GERMS in the same environment and one was infected but the other was not?  President  Donald Trump forced Americans to flee Nigeria during  COVID-19 upsurge, saying  Nigerians would “die like flies” Did we? Did not Americans and Europeans “die like flies”? The answer to Louis Pasteur’s Germ Theory is that it is the immune system which determines whether exposure  to germ will cause disease, not the germ itself. What will work for the immune weakling in this regard is the speed at which the body can produce its Primary anti-oxidants. Glutathione, Super Oxide Dismutase(SOD) and  Catalase. Glutathione, the must important, is produced from three amino acids…Glutamic acid, Cysteine and glycine. SOD comes from Zinc and Manganese.There are other anti-oxidants and phenolic compounds no doubt. I would like, finally, to touch  on two other important factors regarding whether, with or without HIV, cancer can occur in the cervix, at least from natural medicine perspectives. One  is that the cervix like the vagina, is slightly acidic for self protection. Semen, on the other  hand, is alkaline.Besides, it comes with anti- body antibodies to supress for a while the anti body of those areas for the safe passage into the uterus of sperm cells which require an alkaline environment for their survival. When a  woman’s body is accessed too often even by the sperm  of her spouse and sexual partner, there is tendency for the alkalinity of sperm  to neutralise the  acidity of this region and lay it open for the manifestation of germs and viruses which may result in  cancer, especially  when the  livers function is subnormal! The girl and woman of today are irresponsible when its comes to sex.Female animals reject sex when they are not on “heat” for reproduction.Girls and women, forgetting or ignoring that their bodies  descended from the animal, and that they should control it, may accept sex every day.

    Energy Medicine

    Finally,we are too familiar with  orthordox medicine which is Western medicine. Energy Medicine is Eastern or Asian medicine. Over there, it is agreed that the body of man  is not man, who dwells in the body as a  Spirit Energy kernel or the Bibical Breath of Life. This Overself or Spirit has seven “sockets” into which the body inserts plugs, in seven different locations known as The Chakras. Each chakra corresponds with the location of an endocrine gland system. Beginning from the base of the spine upwards, these chakras are in the (1) spine(2)pubis(3)Solar plexus(4) Heart region(5) throat(6)Eyes(7) crown. When the Chakra is burnt out or not supplying energy well, the  region it supplies power, like an electricity transformer that is down and causes black -outs, begins to ail and is prone to weakness, cold or deterioration.The vagina, reproductive system,bladder, prostate gland are in the second chakra region. You  may obtain from the internet why the Chakras fail and how, from therapies within the soul or overself, it may be revived. Externally, the current leading solution is the wearing of Quantum Energy Boxer to supply the body quantum energy from quantum energy minerals wired into the boxers.  Some other persons may well prefer Colour Therapy. Each chakra manifests a peculiar colour. That of the first chakra is red, while that of  Second Chakra is orange.The Virgina and the cervix  may share first and second chakra energies and, therefore, profit from red and orange colours.Other chakra colours are yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.

    In earlier columns, I wrote about how one may make and drink solarised water in glass bottles of colours appropriate for Chakra location.We live in a free  world. So, the search for protection against HPV and cancer is a personal one.Nevertheless, we should remember always that the earth is not green for the fun of it.That is the heart of natural medicine.

  • HIV, HPV red flags fly over 2025 Valentine’s Day (1)

    HIV, HPV red flags fly over 2025 Valentine’s Day (1)

    Where would you be and what would you be doing tomorrow, February 14 , 2025  Valentine’s Day? Painting the town red or just watching the world go by?My boosts long hung and  other Valentine paraphernalia neatly wrapped and stored at the bottom of a trunk box of old vestiges of this day in history, I will be in one corner of my house fellowing the effervescence in spirit with my inner eyes.

    Valentin Day was  intentioned as a day  to show love  but is now  characterised by the hunt for company or companionship.Company hunting is the search for external  content or physical content or physical human body content with which to engage  in physical surrender. The search for  companionship is an exploration for a soul, homogeneous or not, complementary or not,for a joint task, high or low,  through marriage or plantonic friendship for example.

    I still doubt if either comes  near what St. Valentine taught us.Every February 14, reminds me of the Love of God, a split part of which each one of us is as a spark of light or of energy from out of His Radiation. We bear  this knowledge slumbering deep within us, and are meant to awaken  the memory in the course of our  germination like seeds sown in the world of matter, unite with it like flowering photosynthetic plants which, at their level,  seek the energy of sunlight for their flowering and fruiting. This idea reminds me of  Nigeria, an over-blessed nation in my view. Many countries are bombarded by snow for months every year. We are not. Many enjoy shadowy  sunlight for  about  two hours every day for months and then lapse into months of near complete darkness.We have 12  hours of sun-lit day and 12 of night fall sometimes lit by the moon’s reflection of  sunlight. The wind torments some countries, sometimes overturning motor vehicles and breaking  houses. We have  no such  thing. In some areas of the earth, earthquakes are common.We have not been visited by any since I was born 75 years ago. Recently, the air was reported  to  be catching fire in some countries. We have no such  experience.Perhaps we had  fair share of them  in the days of our ancestors  when Atlantis was smitten by a decended moon to take western parts of the American continent away from the western parts of Africa and create  an Atlantic Ocean  in between. Whatever it is, we are blessed with  huge crude oil deposit, large array of minerals resources, a fertile land for agriculture, an intelligent people who, unfortunately, have lapsed into spiritual indolence since the days of the sinking of Atlantis,forgetting  everything about their spiritual  ancestry and chained to their brains and hence their physical bodies and  their material environment!

    So, it will not be surprising that,tomorrow, the town  will be reddened, irrespective of cries of woe here and here that the economy had gone rotten.

    How much  more beautiful would it  have been if, led by the Church, the Mosque and leaders of traditional religions, we all  could take a break from bread and butter hussels and hassels on Valentine Day, to acknowledge the love of God and His Infinite Goodness, and rekindle the fire of our Spirits to live only in reverential devotion to His  Will, Honour and Glory. In this state of  being, we would desist from being a thieving people in public or private life. We would till the land  to feed ourselves and not depend on other nations for  food. We would not flee our  land, alloted to us in the wisdom of God, to be vagabonds or prodigal citizens in other lands. The strong  would not take advantage of the weak. Men would be  manly, protective of women, and women would be womanly, true or faithful guardians of the longing in us for God, and not lead the way down hill to perdition, as they do today, selling their charming bodied on the social dung hill. I sense that, tomorrow, many girls and women would parade the streets almost naked in search of body-hunting men and that true men will hiss on them or tongue lash them if they do not physically assult them.

    HIV and Trump

    As 2025  Valentine Day  approached, United States (U.S) President Donal Trump fired a policy shocker at the  global HIV community of challenged persons and their doctors and care givers. The policy  to withdrew U.S. subsidy on HIV medications was unrelated to 2025 Valentine’s Day, but I saw correlations in them, nevertheless. In 2019,  President Trump made a smaller cut than he as just done, and it was reported to cause one million HIV deaths globally. Genuinely or politically, President Trump had been challenging what many people in his country had been doing with their bodies which he considered wrong or unnatural.Unfortunately, there is little he can do about them. For they are distorted souls. As distorted souls, they are either male spirit kernels or seed germs in female human bodies, or male spirit kernelds in female human bodies or human body which are in various degrees of trans migration, that is inwardly abnormal due to their own decisions, irrespective of what, outwardly,we observe them to be. HIV disease may or may not be a consequence of any of these things, but it is sexually transmittable and U.S. money had  helped  to make  treament drugs cheap  globally and, perhaps, helped to prevent its spread  world-wide. Now with U.S. withdrawal, drugs prices may rise and become unaffordable especially in Nigeria, and the HIV population may enlarge. Nigeria has a population of about 1.5million HIV challenged persons which international data estimate at 10 million persons. Akwa Ibom State tops the table with 5.5 per cent of its population, fellowed by Benue 5.3 per cent, Rivers 3.8 per cent, Taraba 2.9 per cent, Abia 2.1 per cent e.t.c.  Congugal irreverence on a day such as tomorrow or on the aftermath days may rock the boat towards perdition where treaments of HIV disease is of limited to pharmaceutical drugs and injections rather than confronted with the right kinds of foods and drinks which alone bring lasting health. With the U.S. aid cut , the cost of drugs will escalate.Thus, the fear of HIV cannot be divorced or disengaged from tomorrow’s carnivals.

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    HIV, TOOTHLESS BULL-DOG

    Fear of HIV on a Valentine’s Day is not the heart of this column today. I am more concerned about whether HIV has not lost to plant  medicine its original all- conquering terror.  I am on the side of arguments that HIV may never have existed,  that it was the product of  power play between France and the United States to deceive poor nations that a new devastating disease had been discovered, to inform them this disease  was incurable for life, to develop new pharmaceutical drugs that will at best check its excesses, to drain the pocket of poor nations into those of rich nations. Many researchers believed  what was termed HIV was a mere  conglomerate of existing immune and  energy-sapping diseases which, individually or in their various combinations,may or does yield to existing drug medicines.These researchers are called HIV DENIALISTS. Dr F. Batmanghelidj, the Iranian who caused a paradigm shift  in medicine by making medicine accept water  not just as a solute but as medicine in its own right, theorised that the so-called HIV was an autoimmune problem which is reversible.

    Dr. Batmanghelidj, who was celebrated in this column last year under the title… 2024 World Teachers Day:Icons of  Natural Medicine, believed there was no such virus. Dr. Batmanghelidj, an Iranian whose life ambition was to make medicine as simple as possible for lay persons to understand and intelligently discuss, put so-called HIV cells in test tubes and fed them some nutritional substances. He had come to the notion that what we called HIV cells were actually fragmentations of genetic nuclei in the absence of an amino acid named CYSTEINE and ZINC, a fertility and stress mineral which serves about 200 purposes in the human body. This value range from fertility, senses of taste and smell, health of hair, nail and skin, protection of the prostate gland against the damages of Inflamation, enlargement and cancer to those of stability of the  genetic nucleus and, of course, boosting of the immune system.

    Dr. Batmanghelidj found that cysteine and Zinc caused the so- called HIV cell to evolve into normal, stable cells. This left some researchers and doctors in bewilderment.However, it strengthened belief of persons like me in the correctness  of the conception that Neither drug  nor injections but the right kinds of foods  and drinks and medicines bring lasting health. This conception became a natural personal experience for me when I succumbed to some symptoms of COVID-19 but returned to life in about two weeks. I reported my experiences on this page afterwards in the column I titled… CORONAVIRUS:LOOK-ALIKE SYMPTOM JOIN THE LEXICON, posted on FACEBOOK at (John Olufemi Kusa).

    Since Dr. Batmanghelidj work with Cysteine and Zinc, Selenium has joined the league of HIV bursters in the  hands of complementary and natural medicine physicians. It is now well suggested that a defficiency of essential amino acids and Zinc may trigger so-called HIV like symptoms.Essential and non-essential amino acids are important for the intergrity of cells at the molecular level, as are other substances as Vitamins, minerals, anti-oxidants, phenolic,poly phenolic compounds and, in the last few years, Quantum Energy. “ A Zinc finger” is said to hold the amino acids in place in the cell nucleus like  the “clips” which hold clothes securely from wind or storm on a clothes line. Selenium intake is critical in HIV therapy, going by several studies.More people who eat food from selenium deficient soils are said to be more HIV prone than persons who eat selenium-rich foods. Men are said to be more prone to HIV than our women  because they lose Selenium in ejaculations and may not replenish the losses while women  are  the beneficiaries and, therefore, less prone.The value of Selenium is expressed in the HIV-infected normal cell. Dr Batmanghelidj and his colleagues call the “infective viruses” fragments of genetic nuclei. By fragmentation, they mean the genetic code or the formula for maintaining the body has been broken into pieces and it is this piece that are mistaken for viruses. These HIV infected  cells are   said to reproduce their kind and not normal cells, thereby increasing the viral load. Meanwhile, there could be a disproportionate elevation of the viral load against the immune system army expected to fight the virus. The principal fighters in this army are the T-4 CELLS. The battle line  divisions are, thereby, not equally matched. Selenium changes this battle ground scenario, it is said,  by freezing the HIV cells so that they cannot reproduce. Meanwhile, Zinc encourages thymus gland  to enlarge to normal seize. In many adults, it is said to have shrunken to about one quarter of its normal size under zinc defficiency.Many persons rely on only food sources of zinc when increasing scenarios demand the consumption of alot more.Supplementation of zinc in the diet under HIV therapy causes the thymus gland to enlarge.It is inside this gland that T-4 immune cells are matured or graduate for deployment into battle. Therefore, the larger the thymus gland, the more the number of T-4 cells that should mature in it. When the therapy is running well,  and the HIV cells cannot reproduce, and more T-4 cells are being supplied, the  viral load freezes and the T-4 COUNT  increases. With the growing dimunition of the viral load,isn’t  the so-called HIV scourge conquerable?

    Dr. Roger Moore, who also featured in the aforestated icons of natural medicine, taught us about the new biologyof health.This is about acid and alkaline balances in the body. An  acidic internal hygiene or environment and  blood delimits the immune system and the organs, while  an alkaline system at about 7.34 on a one to 14 pH scale in which valued above seven are alkaline inhibits  microbial existence or growth and improves cellular health. In HIV therapy, therefore,acid-forming foods must be eliminated and alkaline- forming ones encouraged.Red meat, fried foods, poultry chicken and egg, bread(white or wheat) milk are acid forming. Alkaline foods include fruits and their peels, lightly cooked vegetables, fruit and vegetable juices e.t.c. A time table for different juice intake  may be drawn (see THE GERSON therapy on-line). For alkalising,  I like herbs such as Chlorella, Wheatgrass, Alfalfa, and Aloe Vera gel. Other herbs which fight viruses and alkalise the system include…Oregano, sage, fennel, basil, ginger, ginseng, tumeric, curcumin, Rosemary, dandelion e.t.c. Some of them may be eaten raw as salad with food. I eat orange peels and banana peels in my meal. They are more nutritious than their fruits.There are  more things to say about HIV conquering plant medicines than space will permit.Sufffice it to say that, in about 25 years,I have observed many challenged persons bounce back to life from the”death sentences” that their diagnoses once presented  to them. Their systems of opportunistic  diseases  disappeared on dietary coconut oil.They  express no skin rash or give-away cough and bear normal weight.They live normal lives.

    Jobelyn

    I write often about this Nigerian herb formula which gave the first hope, arguably, to HIV challenged persons, following a study of soldiers at the military  hospital in Ikoyi, Lagos. So  impressive were the findings that this hospital presented them  at a global military hospital conference in Bethesda, United States. Some Nigeria universities, too, have done HIV and other clinical trials with this product with exciting results.The University of Tunis, following up on Nigerian studies, reported some “cures”.

    The Cancer Cloud

    There has been so much talk about cancer at this time which makes it worthy again of attention on this page, but from a different light from previous commentaries. This time, there is a massive campaign that girls and women step forward for immunisation against HPV(Human Papillo Virus).The bottom line of the campaign  is that HPV, which may be picked up from conjugation with infected men, may cause cancer of the cervix.

    Cancer may be a difficult nut to crack, indeed. Neverthless, there have been cancer survivours who, transformed by nutrition and herbs from the scourge, have lived healthy lives. Bill Henderson reported many of such cases in his book Cancer Defected. From my experience, some cancer patients who resorted to nutrition and herbalism lived longer than their doctors thought they could. As I write, I remember a woman Aged 51 who suffered from oesophageal  cancer. Her weight collapsed to 38kg. Her abdomen and stomach were perforated for a feeding tube to be fitted in. Aloe lite was a regular feature in her liquefied meal. Her weight grew to 65kg in a few months. But she passed soon after under the ravanges of chemotherapy. A formal Special Assistant  to Governor Babatunde Fashola survived it to the amusement of Mrs Bukola Azeez, CEO of Budget travel. Too many factors that  space does not  permit mentioning here support natural  cancer therapy.One of them is occassional time spent in the HYPER BARIC OXYGEN  CHAMBER.  Cancer does  not  survive in oxygen environment.Infact, Dr.Mark Gerson believed the oxygenation was a cause of cancer.  In the extension of the knowledge of CREATION during THE COSMIC TURNING-POINT in the 1920s, mankind was afforded the opportunity to know that blood diseases would be a feature of the years ahead and that cancer could not develop in any part of the body if THE LIVER was optimally healthy.

    For this organ, this column  often suggests   CARQUEJA, MILKTHISTLE, DANDELION, JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE, CLUB MOSS, PAPAYA LEAVE, ALO VERA, NONI JUICE, MOI MOI LEAVE, GREEN TEA, CURCUMIN, TUMERIC, e.t.c.

    Girls and Women

    As I have already shown above, this part of the column is addressed exclusively to girls and women. They are the ones the international community and their country are asking to step forward for vaccination or immunisation against Human Papillo Virus (HPV) which he said to cause cancer of the cervix and, perhaps, other parts of their genitalia. They pick HPV from infected men during intercourse.Today’s woman is more sexually exposed to sex than were our mother and grandmother. Today’s man is like a butterfly which sucks nectar from any beautiful plant. Some men are so loose that they cannot hold themselves before anything in skirt. I will ever remember the lamentation of a woman that a man’s brain is now on the tip of his organ. In this scenario, every girl and woman, indeed,needs protection against HPV. In the next part of this, series, I will explain some natural forms of protection against HPV. However, this is not to encourage you to let yourself go tomorrow or on any other day, painting the town red. 

  • C’River targets teenage girls for HPV vaccination

    C’River targets teenage girls for HPV vaccination

    Girls between ages 9 to 14 years of age have been named as major targets for this year’s Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccination and awareness creation exercise in Cross River State.

    With an estimated number of 342,000 deaths and 604,000 new cases globally, the virus is said to be one of the health challenges in Cross River State, one of the South-south States in Nigeria. Nigeria loses nearly 8,000 women annually to this health crisis, according to research.

    HPV infection is a viral infection that commonly causes skin or mucous membrane growth known as (warts). There are more than a hundred varieties of HPV. Some types of HPV infection cause warts while some lead to various kinds of cancer according to research. The virus can be contracted either sexually or skin-to-skin contact.

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    However, as conversations continue to hold amongst health experts on how to curb the virus, and also ahead of the vaccination exercise scheduled to hold May 27th to 31st, 2024 across the State, Dr. Mary Ojong-Ejoh from Samarwin Initiative an IVAC-DCL trained HPV vaccine Advocate has led an awareness creation exercise to the University of Calabar, (UNICAL) where she spoke with senior management staff and lecturers of the University about the virus and the exercise.

  • Lagos’ dismal record in HPV vaccination

    Lagos’ dismal record in HPV vaccination

    Sir: Lagos State is the most populous state, the commercial capital of the country and economic hub of West Africa having held the status of the federal capital territory from 1968 until 1991. By these distinct attributes, Lagos is arguably, a pacesetter, thus nicknamed ‘Centre of Excellence’. It therefore places a high demand on the state to be in the lead of every positive programme that can contribute to the wellbeing of citizens particularly its residents.

    Unfortunately, the reverse is the case vis-à-vis the November 2023 report released by National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) on Human Papillomavirus popularly known as HPV. The Human papillomavirus (HPV) is responsible for about 95% of cervical cancer. HPV is the most common STI (sexually transmitted infection) globally, with an estimated 80% of sexually active individuals infected at some point in their lives. The cervix is the lower part of the uterus (womb), cervical cancer occurs when there is uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the cervix.

    In Nigeria, cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women, accounting for approximately 16% of all female cancers. Globally, cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer among women with an estimated 604,000 new cases and 31,421,000 deaths annually. Cervical HPV infection also affects male gender though in very low percentage. Nigeria has a population of 56.2 million women ages 15 years and older who are at risk of developing cervical cancer. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Nigeria has an estimated 12,075 new cases of cervical cancer and 7,968 deaths from the disease each year. Cervical cancer is the second highest occurring cancer in Nigeria amongst women. Current estimates indicate that every year, 12,075 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer and 7,968 die from the disease. It ranks as the second most frequent cancer among women in Nigeria and the second most frequent cancer among women between 15 and 44 years of age.

    From verifiable records, over 135 million doses of HPV vaccines have been distributed since they were licensed, and data continue to show that the vaccines provide safe, effective, and long-lasting protection against cancers caused by HPV.

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    Now, in a phase cumulative coverage by states for HPV vaccination rate using MAC campaign targets (80% of target point), data as at November 16, 2023 shows as follows: Taraba – 98%, Akwa Ibom – 97%, Nasarawa – 93%, Abia – 93%, Kano – 92%, Bauchi – 87%, Jigawa – 87%, FCT – 84%, Adamawa – 83%, Osun – 82%, Kebbi – 80%, Enugu – 74%, Ogun – 70%, and Lagos –31%. Source: NPHCDA.

    From the above, Lagos’ record of 31 percent against a target point of 80 percent is not cheering. The question is what happened this time?

     Whilst Taraba, Akwa Ibom, Nasarawa and Abia states struggled for lead in the record, three states that did not meet the target point are Enugu (74%); Ogun (70%) alongside Lagos with 31%. Lagos by its strategic position in the scheme of things has the highest number of visitors and tourists on a daily basis, and therefore such a poor attention to health issues as this may be dangerous.

    As a matter of fact, any infectious disease in Lagos can be speedily transmitted to other states and beyond without delay due to the high number of tourists in the state in-and-out every day. The margin between the two states (Enugu and Ogun states) that also didn’t meet the target compared to Lagos is so wide that a question needs to be asked on what happened. Thus, only Lagos policymakers can provide accurate answers.

    To call a spade a spade, this record is incompatible with the status of ‘Centre of Excellence’ which Lagos is known for. A state like Lagos should lead and not the other way round. People’s health and wellbeing matters and a stitch in time saves nine!

    • Carl Umegboro, Abuja.
  • First Lady to girls: get vaccinated against HPV

    First Lady to girls: get vaccinated against HPV

    First Lady Oluremi Tinubu yesterday flagged off the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine for the prevention of cervical cancer among girls aged 9-14.

    She said cervical cancer remains a common form of the disease that needs to be halted. 

    The First Lady urged parents to encourage their daughters to get vaccinated.

    Senator Tinubu, at an event in Abuja, said regular screenings must be encouraged.

     ”Girls who are under 18 years of age and sexually active should avail themselves of the opportunity of this vaccine to avoid a future of ill-health and possibly, death.

    “The introduction of HPV vaccine into our routine immunisation schedule is a significant step forward in our mission to protect the health and future of our nation’s womenfolk and it will lead to a structured and systematic way of achieving a cervical cancer-free generation,” she said. 

    Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof Mohammed Ali-Pate, urged parents to ensure that their daughters get vaccinated against cervical cancer 

    He assured them that the HPV vaccine is safe as it has been tested in other parts of the world with tremendous results.

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    The Sultan of Sokoto, Abubakar Sa’ad III and the President, the Christian Association of Nigeria, ArchiBishop Daniel Okoh both pledged to sensitise their followers on the need to embrace the vaccine. 

    They commended the government for introducing the vaccine, which they said will save future generations of Nigerian girls and women. 

     The vaccination targets over seven million girls, which is the largest number in a single round of HPV vaccination in the African region.

    The introduction is the high point of years of campaigns by healthcare experts on why the HPV vaccine is needed to curtail the rising cases of cervical cancer among young females.

    Girls aged nine to 14 years will receive a single dose of the vaccine, which is highly efficacious in preventing infection with HPV types 16 and 18 that are known to cause at least 70 per cent of cervical cancers.

    In Nigeria, cervical cancer is the third most common cancer and the second most frequent cause of cancer deaths among women aged between 15 and 44 years.

    The vaccine will be administered by the Federal Ministry of Health, through the platform of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), in some states, perhaps, due to a limited number of vaccines procured.

    A statement by the World Health Organisation noted that a five-day mass vaccination campaign in schools and communities will be carried out during the inaugural rollout in 16 states and the Federal Capital Territory.

    The statement reads: “The vaccine will be incorporated into routine immunisation schedules within health facilities. The second phase of the vaccination introduction will start in May 2024 in 21 states.

    “The vaccine is being provided for free by the Federal Ministry of Health, through the National Primary Health Care Development Agency with support from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health Organisation, and other partners.

    “With support from the WHO country office in Nigeria and other partners, over 35,000 health workers have so far been trained in preparation for the campaign and subsequent vaccine delivery in all health facilities. Vaccination sites have been established in all 4,163 wards across the 16 states included in the phase one rollout, to ensure no eligible girl is left behind. Mobile vaccination units have also been set up to ensure that remote communities can access the vaccine,”

  • Cervical cancer: FG to introduce HPV vaccines for women

    Cervical cancer: FG to introduce HPV vaccines for women

    The federal government on Monday, August 28, said it is set to introduce the lifesaving Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines to help women prevent cervical cancer on September 25, 2023.

    It stated that while many have been killed by the disease, the administration of the HPV vaccine to girls between the ages of 9 and 15 years would prevent them from coming down with cervical cancer.

    The government, therefore, urged religious leaders – Christians and Muslims to help raise awareness in their congregations about the free HPV vaccines, dispel myths and misconceptions about the vaccine, and encourage their members to embrace better health-seeking behaviours.

    Speaking during the bi-annual review meeting of religious leaders on Primary Health Care (PHC) delivery, the coordinating minister of health and social welfare, Muhammad Ali Pate, represented by the senior special adviser to the minister, Emmanuel Odu said: “I acknowledge the contributions of our faith community to healthcare delivery in the country, as we are aware that some of our religious organizations provide healthcare services at the primary, secondary and even tertiary healthcare level. This is most commendable, as I urge you to keep it up, as the government alone cannot do.

    “The federal government under the leadership of His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is determined to change the narrative by making health affordable and accessible to all Nigerians. We will therefore need the support of the faith community as we roll out the Federal Government’s agenda for the health of our people. We will be relying on your influence to build trust and enhance community ownership of all our health interventions.”

    In his remarks, the executive director and chief executive officer of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Faisal Shuaib said: “In our endeavour to reach every corner of our nation, we acknowledge the pivotal role religious leaders play in this noble pursuit. They possess the power to disseminate critical information that can influence behaviour, dispel myths and encourage preventive practice.

    “Concerning progress made on one of the deadliest diseases affecting our mothers, sisters and daughters – cervical cancer. This cancer is caused by the Human papillomavirus (HPV). On September 25 this year, we’ll be introducing the HPV vaccine that prevents cervical cancer when given to our daughters between the ages of 9 and 15 years.

    “In their roles are spiritual guides, they own the power to influence hearts and minds, and their words carry weight and inspire action. I urge you to join hands today with the medical community in championing the course of HPV vaccination nationwide. By encouraging HPV vaccination within your congregations, you become advocates of life and guardians of health. HPV vaccination is more than a medical breakthrough, but a testament of our unity and the sanctity of life.”

    The president-general of the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), and Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Abubakar III said: “When we are talking about the health issues of our people, first and foremost you must talk about how to feed the common man. Without food, no drug will work. Government must face this reality, and if care is not taken it will be worse next year. I am not predicting, but we have to work on ourselves because of the issues we see on the ground.

    “We have full hope that we will get out of the woods. We are not losing hope. I am not campaigning for Asiwaju’s renewed hope, but we must have hope in what Almighty Allah can do for us, but we must do for ourselves.

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    “This forum will review all health issues, successes, failures and what must be done. We are ready to do the needful. The Government can count on us – traditional and religious leaders. We believe in telling the people what the government is doing. If the government does anything right, we clap for them, and if they do anything wrong, we caution them not to go that way.”

    The national president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Archbishop Daniel Okoh added, “We are delighted that primary health care in Nigeria is beginning to get the kind of attention it deserves. More importantly, religious leaders are given the opportunity to dialogue by way of review about what is happening in this particular sector of our national lives. Even on health issues, a lot of Nigerians still prefer to listen to their religious leaders before listening to their doctors, even the government.

    “Our places of worship have been used for sensitization, for administering vaccines and our health facilities have been in collaboration with the government for a very long time now, especially for primary health care.

    “With initiatives like this, we are optimistic that improved healthcare will be made accessible to those who before now have been far from it, especially those in the rural areas. We pray that this bi-annual meeting carries out the objective of the government aimed at providing healthcare to all Nigerians. We recommend that we continue this kind of collaboration.”