For tonight's Medical Matters we are joined by Prof Motlalepula Matsabisa, Professor and Director of Pharmacology Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Free State, who together with an expert advisory committee consisting of Deputy President of the South African Society for Basic and Clinical Pharmacology Society, Guest Professor Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and the current chairperson of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO), have partnered with FARMOVS, (a South African clinical research organisation that conducts ICH-GCP compliant Phase I to III clinical trials), to advance clinical research on African traditional medicines to find effective solutions against the COVID-19 virus.