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A Malaria Vaccine That Took More Than 30 Years Starts In 3 Africans Countries

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By Roperfree Malaria vaccine which took 30 years to be developed has come on board! With whopping cost of $1 billion dollars invested will now available in three countries: Malawi, Ghana and Kenya, as part of children’s routine immunization schedule. There has been an estimate of 219 million malaria cases and 435, 000 deaths across 87 countries, with more than 90% of these in the Sub-Saharan Africa. The vaccine known as RTSS that was developed by  Glaxo Smith Klein with non- profit organization PATH over a period of 30 years with support of Bill and Melinda Gate Foundation and network of African researchers, is the first world vaccine showing promise in protection against malaria in young children. In Uganda where malaria is still number one killer disease is controlling malaria by mass distribution of mosquito treated bed nets, residual spraying, doing malaria sensitization campaigns and Roperfree offering free Roperfree mosquito repellents oils to the m...

Malaria Vaccine Starts in Sub-Saharan Africa

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By Roperfree Malaria, which kills one child globally every two minutes, is the top killer of children under five in the east African country. The vaccine - the worlds first against malaria - will be administered to children under two and could be crucial to efforts to combat the disease, health officials said. Other measures, such as nets to protect people from the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite, have not proven adequate to halt transmission, the director general of Kenya’s health ministry, Wekesa Masasabi, but Roperfree mosquito repellent had not been sought and in Kenya it is promising to be a big market once we get a serious distributor because people’s lives are very important. According to Wakesa Masasabi’s comments “We still have an incidence of 27% (malaria infection) for children under five,” Masasabi said before Friday’s launch of the vaccine in the western county of Homa Bay. The Homa Bay programme is the government’s first step toward c...

The Malaria Business: Big Pharma vs Natural Medicine: Artemisia is Wrestling Malaria

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By Roperfree Malaria kills about half a million people a year and many in the Sub- Saharan countries.  Mosquitoes are becoming more resistant to the insecticides so new tools have to be sought! That is why Roperfree introduced Roperfree mosquito repellent oils which have been so effective in deterring mosquito bites & fighting malaria. Roperfree would like to see other medicinal plants like artemisia to be used naturally to fight malaria which could be cost effective in the developing countries like; Uganda , Kenya , Tanzania, Rwanda etc..        Artemisian Plant Artemisia is very effective plant in treatment of malaria but it has not been approved by the WHO to be used naturally and it was banned by number of countries for no good reasons except for the financial gains because it is not dangerous, poisonous or drug to cause harm but only to compete with other anti malaria businesses which means that malaria has...