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Professor Charles Ssali
MBChB
FRCS
The founder of Mariandina Aids
Research Foundatio
CURRICULUM VITAE
SURNAMES: SSALI LWANGA KABALU
FIRST NAMES: CHARLES
NATIONALITY: UGANDAN
DATE OF BIRTH: 03/ 09/ 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH: MASAKA, UGANDA
SEX: MALE
CONTACT ADDRESS:
MARIANDINA AIDS RESEARCH FOUNDATION
24 Kenton Road
Harrow Middlesex
HA1 2BW
TEL: 0208 864 8972
FAX: 0208 248 3775
E-MAIL:ssali@globalnet.co.uk
Present position: Director of Aids research in non-government organisation
Mariandina Aids Research Foundation established in 1993.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND.
1940 - 1946
Primary Education at Kitasa parish school. Passed in grade A. 265
marks out of 300.
1947 - 1953
Secondary education at St. Henry’s College Kitovu. Passed Cambridge
School Certificate with 5 distinctions and 4 credits. Best results
in East Africa for that year. (1953)
1954 - 1955
HIGHER SCHOOL CERTIFICATE
Was admitted to Makerere University Kampala for the higher School
certificate which I passed in 1955. I continued with pre-clinical
training in anatomy and physiology for two years followed by clinical
years in Medicine and Surgery leading to the degree of MBCHB in
1960
1960 - 1962
The Internship at Mulago Hospital was from January to December,
1961. I worked in general medical practice from 1962 after the internship,
I worked in Entebbe Hospital for six months followed by one year
in Bombo Hospital where I was in charge of Medical and Surgical
problems including obstetrical and gynecological patients.
1963 - 1967
I returned to Mulago hospital as a senior medical officer in the
department of ear, nose and throat. I had obtained a scholarship
to understudy the consultant in Ear, Nose and Throat as part of
my post graduate training to specialise in ear, nose and throat
surgery. I was later awarded a scholarship by the central government
of Uganda to study at the ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS at LINCOLN’S
INN FIELDS, LONDON in 1964. I passed the primary FRCS in London
in April 1965. I proceeded to do practical training in the specialty
of Ear, Nose and Throat at the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh.
I worked as a registrar at the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy Fife
Scotland. Later on I worked at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh as
a registrar as part of my training. I passed the final examination
of Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1967 April. This is
the highest examination degree in medicine and surgery.
1964
Got married to Miss Margaret Nansamba.
1967
I returned to Uganda and started working in Mulago Hospital as a
senior registrar in the department of Ear, Nose and Throat. I was
responsible for all the surgical and clinical work in the department
under the supervision of Professor Steen.
RESEARCH BACKGROUND
1973
For a period of 5 years I carried out research on the following
conditions;
1. ATROPHIC RHINITIS: I published a paper on “The treatment
of Atrophic Rhinitis.” A new and curative treatment (middle turbirectomy)
JLO 1973, Vol. 8, 397 - 403. This treatment formed the foundation
of modern treatment for this condition. This condition known as
kibobe in Luganda had no known curative method of treatment that
was effective against this very disabling condition found all over
the world. It afflicts mainly those in the developing world and
the most affected are the poor and the malnourished. It causes a
smelling nose which is forbidding and people affected are shunned
in society. Women affected cannot get married because of the foul
smell coming from their noses. My invention of treatment created
a new era for these people allowing them to mix well in society.
I got messages of congratulations from Malaysia and India for having
discovered this relief for the people in India. The treatment is
still used all over the world as I published it in the Journal.
2. RHINO SCLEROMA: I published a paper, “The treatment of
Rhino scleroma” JLO 1975, Vol. 89, 91 -99. This treatment is still
standard in text books. This condition known also as Kokolo in Luganda
is a condition that is found all over the world as well as in Uganda.
My research and discovery of treatment for this condition created
a breakthrough in the management of this condition which had no
known effective method of treatment for those afflicted. It can
distort the face, the nose and the throat of an individual to make
one look extremely ugly and frightening. This appearance is the
greatest disability apart from the ultimate death which results
when the condition is not treated. I discovered and standardised
the treatment for Scleroma and my method is the one used in text
books as standard treatment up to today.
3. LARYNGO TRACHEOBRONCHITIS: “Steroids and Restoration
of body fluids in liquid form as the basis of proper management
of Laryngo tracheobronchitis” by C. L. Ssali, Mulago Hospital Kampala
-- Proceedings of the 1974 Annual Scientific Conference of the East
African Medical Research Council. Since the time of publication,
the treatment changed to this regime all over the world up to date.
(“The child in the African Environment growth development and survival.”
Editors: R. Owor, V. L. Ongom, B. G. Kirya, East African Literature
Bureau. Nairobi, Kampala & Dar es Salaam). This is a condition
that affects children of between the age of 2 to 5 years causing
respiratory obstruction caused by inflammation in the throat and
nose and lungs. The original way of treating this condition was
to put a tube called tracheotomy to allow breathing to continue
otherwise the child would die. My research produced a new method
which this condition is treated successfully without using the tracheotomy
which used to cause permanent damage and scars in the chi’sreathing
passages.
1974 - 1979
I was appointed the Professor and head of Department of Ear, Nose
and Throat diseases with the following responsibilities which included
teaching medical students and running the department as a specialist
in Ear, Nose and Throat. I was the consultant for the government
of Uganda and Makerere University in matters of related problems.
1979 - 1984
I left Uganda and went to Kenya. I was appointed consultant surgeon
in Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya with responsibilities:
Treating patients and teaching medical students.
1984 - 1987
I left Kenya and settled in the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and I took up work as consultant in the National Health Service
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain. I worked in Stevenage General
Hospital, London, Princess Margaret Hospital, Windon, UK, Victoria
General Hospital, Kirkcaldy Fife, Scotland, as a consultant, surgeon
in ear, nose and throat. I was consultant in the Royal Infarmary
Carlile, England.
1987 - 1988
I was appointed consultant in ENT in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,
Riyadh Central Hospital. I resigned from this position and returned
to the United Kingdom.
1988 - 1992
I resumed my duties in the National Health Services of the United
Kingdom. Again I worked as Locum consultant in E.N.T. together with
Dr. James Tivendale in Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy Fife, Scotland
and other district hospitals up to the month of August 1992. During
the time I was in the United Kingdom, I did part-time research privately
to try and solve the AIDS/ HIV treatment problem. I had made some
significant breakthrough in the formulation of a prototype pill
for which I obtained a British patent registered No. 2224649 on
the 20th of August 1992. I left the United Kingdom to start up my
own research centre in AIDS/ HIV treatment in Kampala, Uganda.
Director of research on HIV/ AIDS treatment; The objective was to
find ways by which the virus causing AIDS could be controlled using
medical treatment. The achievement as of now is a variety of pills
code named Mariandina A, B & J that have been used to treat
HIV/ AIDS patients with good results in over 17,000 patients up
to 1997.
The reasons for starting my research in AIDS was because the whole
world research effort had achieved no effective treatment for the
condition that was rapidly spreading in the world among the 15 -
45 year old age group. I decided to use the experience I had acquired
during my research years in Makerere University between 1969 and
1979 during which I published the results of my first discoveries
in various diseases enumerated in the research background. I was
not financed from any source and therefore I depended on personal
resources for my next research program in the causation and treatment
of AIDS. The founding of Mariandina was for the purpose of solving
this AIDS pandemic by using affordable treatment methods since I
knew that the discoveries of Western Countries’ pharmaceutical companies
may never be affordable by third world countries. The result of
seven years of my research resulted in the discovery of capsules
code named Mariandina A, B & J that are affordable and effective
in the treatment ofIDS/IV and it’s complications. These capsules
are composed of a combination of vitamins, minerals, essential enzymes
and micronutrients vital for body functions damaged by the virus
of HIV. They also contain powerful antioxidants, flavanoids and
immune enhancing herbal extracts. The publications have appeared
in various Journals namely, the Journal of Transfigural Mathematics
Vol. 2. No.2 1996, published in Berlin, the Exposure, No. 70 December
1995 Kampala, Uganda and the Medical Review, vol. 2, No. 1, Jan/
Feb 1996, Uganda, East Africa.
I have participated in the following International Conferences presenting
my research.
1. Under the auspices of the Association of Research Scientists
of Africa (ARSA), I staged a scientific symposium on Mariandina
research presented in the International Conference Centre, Kampala,
Uganda attended by Uganda Medical Association Doctors and Uganda
Aids Commission representatives and the Ministry of Health personnel
and the Minister of Health as the guest of honour on the 22nd of
November 1995.
2. Voxjo University International Conference on AIDS in Africa on
the 23rd of November, 1996.
3. Attended conference on nutrition and HIV/ AIDS, from 22nd to
the 25th of April in Nice, France. The researchers from various
countries of the world including Britain, USA, Canada, Australia,
Japan & Africa presenting their recent research findings on
the value of various food items including vitamins and micronutrients
concluded that they had a very significant value in the treatment
and alleviation of AIDS and boosting of the immune system. This
proved that the research we have carried out in Mariandina research
foundation have been in the right direction toward the solution
of AIDS/ HIV management strategies.
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