Professor Charles Ssali Lwanga Kabalu was the founder of the Mariandina Research Foundation. The Mariandina Wellness range of food supplements was developed after 10 years of scientific research by Professor Charles Ssali who was a fellow of the Royal College of surgeons in Edinburgh, Professor Ssali was a medical doctor and researcher in both western and traditional herbal medicine. During his research he treated 18,000 patients with various diseases using the Mariandina Wellness range achieving an 80% success rate. Professor Ssali was an Ear, Nose and Throat specialist working in the National Health Service in the UK as a Consultant. Mariandina repairs the body using anti-oxidants and supports recovery from a wide variety of conditions such as Asthma, Diabetes, Eczema, Stress, Lupus, Heart Disease, Loss of Libido, Lupus, Depression, Prostate inflammation, Arthritis, Stroke, Chronic fatigue and Cancer by creating optimum immune function.
During his time in the United Kingdom, Dr. Ssali privately carried out part-time research to try and solve the HIV/AIDS treatment problem. He made some significant breakthroughs in the formulation of a prototype pill for which he obtained a British patent registered No. 2224649 on the 20th of August 1992.
Dr. Ssali returned to Kampala, Uganda to start his own HIV/AIDS treatment research centre. His decision was based on the poor output of the world research effort into AIDS. Dr. Ssali decided to use experience gained during his years of research at Makerere University between 1969 and 1979, in order to help those most afflicted in Africa and Asia. This research programme was self-financed.
The objective of Dr. Ssali’s pioneering research was to find ways of controlling the AIDS virus by using medical/non-traditional treatment. This objective has been achieved through the development of natural nutritional supplements code-named Mariandina A, B & J, that have been used to treat over 18,000 HIV/ AIDS patients, with good results.
The founding of the Mariandina Nutritional Health Products and the subsequent development of the Mariandina natural nutritional supplements was for the purpose of solving this AIDS pandemic by using affordable treatment methods. Knowing that products from Western pharmaceutical companies may never be affordable to third world countries.
These capsules are composed of a combination of vitamins, minerals, essential enzymes and micronutrients that are vital for body functions damaged by the HIV virus. Mariandina natural nutritional supplements also contain powerful antioxidants, flavanoids and immune enhancing herbal extracts.
Publications explaining the benefits of Mariandina supplements 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.
Under the auspices of the Association of Research Scientists of Africa (ARSA), Dr. Ssali staged a scientific symposium on Mariandina research presented in the International Conference Centre Kampala, Uganda. Attended by Uganda Medical Association doctors, Uganda Aids Commission representatives, the Ministry of Health personnel and the Minister of Health as the guest of honour on the 22nd of November 1995.
Voxjo University International Conference on AIDS in Africa on the 23rd of November 1996.
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 and Africa presented their research findings on the value of various food items – including vitamins and micronutrients – in combating HIV/AIDS.
It was concluded that various food items have very significant value in the treatment and alleviation of AIDS and boosting of the immune system. This proved that the research carried out at the Mariandina Nutritional Health Products, focusing on effective HIV/AIDS management strategies, has been and is geared in the right direction.
Prof. Charles Ssali, the doctor behind the Mariandina Clinic for HIV/Aids patients died on 21 July 2004, a month after he was admitted in critical condition at the Uganda Heart Institute, Mulago. Ssali, had been on life-support system.