Prof. Ngu wins 2003 Leon Sullivan Achievement Award

Other honourees included:

• Honourable Donald Payne, Congressman 10 District, New Jersey, USA
• Honourable Ronald Dellums, former Congressman and Chairman, Constituency for Africa (CFA);
• Congresswoman Donna Christian-Christensen, Virgin Islands, Chair, Congressional Black Caucus, Health Brain Trust;
• His Excellency Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, M.O.N. Executive Governor, Abia State, Federal Republic of Nigeria;
• Dr. Bernice Catherine Harper, Hospice Founder/President, Foundation for Hospice in Sub-Saharan Africa (FHSSA);
• Luddy Hayden, Manager, International Government Relations, Chevrons Texaco;
• Barbara Johnson, President Apple Transportation Company , Chairman, Women In Development Committee.

The aim of the fourth symposium was to examine the challenges faced by AIDS orphans in Africa. The terrible disease has made a devastating impact on young adults, children and women in Africa, a continent whose AIDS orphans could leap from the current 13 million to 40 million by the year 2010 if nothing concrete is done to check the spread of the plague. Participants at the symposium also scrutinized the work of non-governmental organizations, private voluntary organizations, bilateral and multilateral institutions that are making significant efforts to reduce poverty and the impact of HIV/AIDS on children, young adults and women.

The event was honoured by OIC International, African Diplomatic corps in Washington, members of the United States Congress and heads of Non-governmental Organisations.

Each year the Leon H. Sullivan Achievement Award is given to individuals who have made landmark contributions in efforts to foster the cause of Africa and the goals that were pursued by the late Reverend Leon Sullivan, founder of Opportunities Industrialization Center International.

Perhaps what is worth mentioning as far as the 2003 honorees are concerned is that two Africans are on the list, namely Professor Anomah Ngu and Dr. Orji Zor Kalu, Governor of Abia State, Nigeria. Both personalities were commended for the remarkable efforts deployed in their respective countries to curb the continental plague called AIDS.

As a politician, Dr Kalu has left no stone unturned to address the AIDS pandemic in his State.

As for Professor Anomah Ngu, his work in the area of AIDS therapy was highly acclaimed. As a matter of fact, this maverick physician has discovered an HIV auto vaccine called VANHIVAX, which is prepared from the virus of HIV infected patients and administered to them.

The highly personalized, cheap, protein-rich and therapeutic auto vaccine is seen to cause a drop in the viral load of the patient and an increase in the weight and CD4 (immune cells) count of the patient as testified by many erstwhile dying HIV infected persons who renewed with life thanks to the auto-vaccine. The 2003 Leon Sullivan Achievement Award can only boost the morale of Professor Victor Anomah Ngu, this indefatigable 76-year medical researcher who schooled under the rigorous supervision of Professor Alexander Flemming (Inventor of Penicillin), and whose hat is already studded with the Max Bonn Prize in Pathology conferred in 1954 by the Queen Mother of England, the Albert Lasker Medical Research Award in Clinical Cancer Chemotherapy (1972) and the Dr. Samuel Lawrence Adesuyi Award and Medal by the West African Health Community (1989). By Zesseu Tankwa Claude, Online Editor.