Doctors in the Ivermectin Interest Group have welcomed the University of the Free State s decision to conduct a clinical trial protocol to determine the efficacy of ivermectin for the treatment of Covid-19. File Picture: Moeletsi Mabe/African News Agency(ANA)
Clinical trial on efficacy of Ivermectin welcomed
By Lyse Comins
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Durban - Doctors in the Ivermectin Interest Group (IIG) have welcomed the University of the Free State s (UFS) decision to conduct a clinical trial protocol to determine the efficacy of ivermectin for the treatment of Covid-19.
But the group have cautioned that in many countries double blind placebo controlled trials would be considered unethical because of the considerable number of people that would die unnecessarily to confirm what was “most likely to become a known fact .
They had not received any response and a third patient had since died.
The applicants ask for (among others):
The failure of SAHPRA to approve the Section 21 applications be reviewed and set aside and that the court approves the Section 21 applications;
A declaratory order that ivermectin is a safe drug for the use of humans, subject to it being properly administered in a controlled manner under the management of a treating medical practitioner; and
A declaratory order that qualified medical doctors and pharmacists are entitled in terms of Section 14(4) of the Medicines Act to compound medicine, on the prescription of a medical practitioner, which includes Ivermectin.
Citizen reporter Corporates contributed 30% of philanthropic income in 2018, compared to 14% in 2013, while individual donors (including bequestors) increased funding from 4% in 2013 to 8% in 2018. Picture: iStock
The survey, conducted in 2019 and based on data from the 2018 calendar year, indicated that 11 universities raised an impressive R1.61 billion in 2018, which increases to a total of R1.91 billion when income from Sector Education and Training Authorities (Setas) was added.
Out of the 26 universities in South Africa – the 11 that took part were the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT); University of Cape Town (UCT); Durban University of Technology (DUT); University of the Free State (UFS); University of Johannesburg (UJ); University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN); University of Pretoria (UP); University of Stellenbosch (SU); Tshwane