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British Doctor On Malaria Vaccine Trial


Daily Observer (Banjul)

September 28, 2000 

Pa Modou Bojang & Sheriff Bojang
Banjul 

Dr Vasee Moorley of the MRC has said the new experimental malaria vaccine is the first of a new generation of vaccines being tested in the developed world and the developing countries.

Talking to Daily Observer last week, the malaria vaccine trial physician said, "these vaccines are used in activated form of the organisms being vaccinate against. I am here with MRC on a long-term programme to do malaria vaccine trials in association with the community in The Gambia. I have tested the vaccine first on British people last year, because we felt that it was acceptably safe to test it with British people before we test in in The Gambia." He added that the vaccine was found to be safe and had a good immune response to malaria.

Dr Moorley said if the experimental malaria vaccine becomes successful, it will be readily available to Gambians. "As The Gambia will play a very important role in the development of the vaccines, Gambians will be in a better position to have access to the vaccine than any other Africans," he added. Dr Moorley said a sensitisation campaign is being waged by the MRC, "we have been conducting meetings with members of Gambian community in Mandinka and Wollof making sure that they understand what we like them to do." Dr Moorley said in every 30 seconds, one African child dies of malaria. He also disclosed that there are contacts between traditional healers and MRC doctors, noting that there will be more dialogue between them.

"My doors are open to any traditional healer, medical practitioner, journalist or any member of the Gambian public for further debate on malaria," the MRC physician said. He said discovery of a cure for malaria would be one of the most "expedient treatments for the African economy."

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