If Dr. Moorley doesn't mind, we'd like him to publish the results of his
trials in Europe in a publicly accessible medium: website, radio, library,
etc.
We would also like to know which pharmaceutical firms have funded the
research and the trials, and which ones will manufacture the vaccine.
We commend his steadfast efforts in finding a cure or vaccine for malaria.
Gambians are always supportive of vaccine trials especially those purported
to rid them of their perennial ills.
cheers!!
>From: MOMODOU BUHARRY GASSAMA <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: FWD: British Doctor On Malaria Vaccine Trial
>Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 02:36:41 +0200
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>
>Hi!
> This is forwarded from Musa Ngum's homepage. Get your African news
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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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