Pharmacologist investigated for alleged bogus anti-Covid-19 treatment
By Nathan Craig
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DURBAN - A Durban pharmacologist is being investigated by the health ministry for claiming that he developed an anti-Covid-19 drug treatment.
On December 6, the Sunday Tribune published an article where a clinical pharmacologist claimed to have developed the HIM20 drug treatment which he touted as the world s first, orally active and specifically anti-Covid-19 drug.
But since the publication, he was reported to Health Minister Zwelini Mkhize by Professor Salim Abdool Karim, co-chair of the ministerial advisory committee and director of the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa.
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TANYA Reid is a painter mainly working in oils but sometimes watercolour and/ or mixed medium. “I also do a bit of ceramic work but painting is my favoured discipline,” says the Newbury artist who studied fine art at the Durban University of Technology in South Africa, majoring in art history and painting but also studied print making, textiles and ceramics as part of her degree.
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Tanya moved to Newbury with her British husband and three children in 2012. “I have lived in many different parts of the world and find I draw influences from all of them.”