sidi sanneh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Daddy Sang,
No, it does not mean that Gambian children are being
used as guinea pigs to test the effectiveness of the
new vaccine. What is means is that recent pioneering
research in this dreadful disease has been conducted
in The Gambia. We should all hope that the new vaccine
is proven effective so that millions of lives around
the developing world, including hundreds of thousands
of lives of children in The Gambia,could be saved. The
selection of The Gambia for the trials should be
welcomed by all.
sidi sanneh
Sidi, don't get me wrong I welcome any help Gambian children get in combating
malaria; Its just that with the west's reputation for using developing
nations, one often wonders about there motives. Let me echo your sentiments
again; I hope the vaccines not only benefit Gambian children, but the entire
developing community.
Thanks
Daddy Sang
--- Emmanuel N'Dow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Amadu Kabir Njie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Malaria Vaccine Trial Set For Gambia
>
> Malaria Vaccine Trial Set For Gambia
> March 3, 2000
>
>
> NEW YORK, US (PANA) - Smithkline Beecham, a leading
> pharmaceutical company,
> has announced it would commence trials of its new
> malaria vaccine among
> children in Gambia.
>
> A news release by the company Thursday said that the
> trials could start as
> early as the last quarter of 2000.
>
> Clinical trials of the vaccine conducted in Gambia
> had shown promising
> results, the company added.
>
> Smithkline's announcement came as US President Bill
> Clinton met in Washington
> Thursday with heads of leading pharmaceutical
> companies and the board of the
> recently formed Global Alliance for Vaccines and
> Immunisation to discuss his
> millennium vaccine initiative.
>
> The initiative seeks to encourage pharmaceutical
> companies to develop vaccines
> for deadly diseases such as malaria, HIV and
> Tuberculosis.
>
> The chief executive officer of Smithkline Beecham,
> Jean-Pierre Garnier, was
> reported to have reaffirmed at the meeting the
> pledge of his company to donate
> about five billion doses of Albendazone worth one
> billion dollars in the fight
> to eliminate lymphatic filariasis.
>
> Nigeria, Egypt and Western Samoa were the first set
> of countries to benefit
> from the elimination programme, started late 1999.
>
> Another set of 12 countries are to join the
> programme in 2000. The elimination
> programme is spread over 20 years.
>
> Meanwhile, the alliance has reported that nearly 50
> countries, majority of
> them from Africa, have responded to its call to
> eligible countries to submit
> an "expression of interest" to its programme to step
> up immunisation
> activities.
>
> Countries with per capita income of less than 1,000
> dollars a year are
> qualified to participate.
>
> Countries that have expressed their interest include
> 26 from Africa, 11 from
> Eastern Europe, six from Asia, three from Latin
> America and one from the
> Middle East.
>
> Among African countries are Burkina Faso, Cameroon,
> Central African Republic,
> Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo,
> Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya,
> Lesotho, Liberia and Madagascar.
>
> Others are Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique,
> Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal,
> Sierra Leone, Togo, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia.
>
> Formed in 1999 to ensure that every child is
> protected against
> vaccine-preventable diseases, the alliance has as
> its members, national
> governments, UN agencies, pharmaceutical
> manufacturers, the World Bank,
> foundations and research and technical health
> institutions.
>
> Folks, does this mean that Gambian children are
> being used as guinea pigs to
> test the effectiveness of a new product.
> Daddy Sang
>
>
>
>
>
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