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Covid-19: Present your ‘cure’ for evaluation, NAFDAC tells claimants

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May 13, 2020
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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has challenged Nigerians who claim to have developed cure for Covid-19 to present it to the agency to enable it pass through internationally recognized process of evaluation.

The Director-General of NAFDAC, Mojisola Adeyeye, stated this in a statement in Abuja, Wednesday.

It would be recalled that many Nigerian scientists and herbal practitioners have over the past few weeks claimed that they have developed cure for Covid-19.

Adeyeye reiterated that NAFDAC “will continue to encourage all stakeholders to present the products of their research findings and allow these remedies go through internationally recognized process of approval through pre-clinical and where applicable, clinical trials.”

She disclosed that as at the time of issuing the press statement, “NAFDAC has only received application from one company for a product the company is presenting (for approval) to the Agency for the treatment of the symptoms of Covid-19, and not for the cure of Covid-19 as a disease.”

She emphasized that any claim of a cure must be subjected to clinical evaluation through well controlled, randomized clinical trials following an approved clinical trial protocol.

“As the Agency that has been saddled with the mandate of safeguarding the health of the citizenry, NAFDAC will continue to make sure that only medicinal product (including herbal remedies) that have proven safety data will be approved for use by the public.

“As the body with the mandate to regulate the conduct of clinical trials in the country, NAFDAC is committed to encouraging and supporting sponsors with appropriate guidance to expedite the development of effective interventions to treat or prevent COVID-19,” she said.

The NAFDAC Director-General explained that as part of the efforts to advance herbal products development, she set up what she christened, Nigerian Herbal Medicine Product Committee (HMPC).

The platform, according to her, brought together manufacturers, academia, researchers and relevant stakeholders to bridge the gap often created between traditional medicine practitioners (possible patent holders) and drug manufacturers, whose responsibility it would be to formulate the products.

“This collaboration, brokered by the Agency, aims at translating research of herbs into products of commerce with proven safety & efficacy.

“The committee has met three times since inception, on March 15, 2019, September 6, 2019 and the most recent one being a virtual meeting on Thursday May 8, 2020.

“Call for expression of interest for the COVID-19 related medicines was made; several researchers and practitioners have responded and are being guided to submit such medicines to NAFDAC for expedited review,” she explained.

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