KHAIRPUR, Feb 20: A doctor has claimed that he has discovered treatment for the HIV/Aids disease, declared incurable after innumerable medical research institutes across the world equipped with state-of-the-art machines failed to find out a cure for the deadly virus that progressively destroys man’s immune system.

Dr Mohammad Rafique Awan who is doing PhD on “Indigenous Traditional Medicines as Anti-HIV Agents” from the Department of Microbiology of the Shah Abdul Latif University under the guidance of Prof Dr Shaikh Aijaz Rasool, dean of Faculty of Sciences of the University of Karachi insisted the Aids’ treatment was possible through herbs.

He made the disclosure while speaking at a one-day seminar on "Aids is curable through herbs" at the SALU’s Allama I. I. Kazi hall on Monday that the disease’s treatment was 100 per cent possible with the help of medicines he had prepared from herbs.

Minimum duration for treatment was nine months and the maximum was two and a half years, he said while replying to questions from the seminar participants.

Dr Awan who runs a private clinic at Rimpa Plaza in Karachi said while talking to this scribe that he had tested his medicines on a number of patients and claimed that so far ten HIV positive patients had been cured and the condition of six including women was improving.

He denied disclosing the patients’ names for the reasons of privacy and said that he would finish his thesis within a couple of months. KU Vice-Chancellor Prof Pirzada Qasim who was chief guest at the seminar appreciated Dr Awan’s discovery, which he said, would prove to be a message of hope.