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Abha Light Foundation
| Malaria Research Project 2010
July 2010 Newsbulletin 1
An Appeal
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| Dear ,
I have good news from Abha Light to share with you. It's about our landmark research project in malaria. I'm sending this email out only to certain friends of Abha Light.
I have a special request, however. While I'd be happy for you to share this news with your close friends when you meet them, PLEASE DO NOT post it on the web - not by email, nor facebook, twitter, etc, not on your blog site or web pages. There are selfish-interests who will go to any lengths to disrupt this effort... and I hope you don't help them inadvertently!
Visit our first vlog of the research at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VdUe-MurYg
Read on...
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Malaria Prevention Study Launched 10 July 2010
Saturday July 10th was a great day for us, as over 300
people crowded into the remote community clinic to sign up for the Abha Light
Malaria Prevention Research project. It has been a bit of a struggle to get to
this momentous day, but we did it. Let me go back a bit and I'll tell you the
story.
Even though we've been using in our clinics and mobiles our
homeopathic malaria complex (MalariX) for these last 10 years to not only treat,
but also prevent, malaria, we never have been able to track the results simply
because it takes money. 
In the beginning of 2009, however, we were given a
generous donation and I was able to put that towards two things - registration of the product with the Kenyan Pharmacy and Poisons Board (the
Kenyan equivalent of the FDA) and initiate the steps to pull together a proper
study on the product. It took us nearly a year to complete all the steps
necessary to pass all the requirements needed for government approval to
conduct a research and get the product registered.
By then, we had the permissions to go ahead and a
partnership with a private hospital, but the money had run dry. So we were
stalled.
Who is "we", you ask? Well, myself of course, and -allow me
to introduce you to- Shem Ochieng, our good friend and lead researcher. Shem has
been our college instructor in health sciences all these years. Besides that,
he's eminently qualified to conduct a research, being that is his line of work
with a major university in Kenya.
Then one great friend of Abha Light introduced me to her
colleague who is very interested in this type of thing and the next thing we
knew, we're off and away. By April 2010 she and her colleague had raised
through major donors £17,000 pounds to get the research underway.
By April 2010, too, the final green light was given by the
Ministry of Health to go ahead with the research. In May we pulled many things
together and with full speed returned back to the original private hospital to
kick things off. Only when we got there with our bag and baggage, we find that
the newly-changed administration had decided to decline our partnership and we
left that place within the hour of our arrival.
 Well, now we're a mad hunt to find a new venue. What a drag to be set
back like this. The location and efficiency of that hospital would have assured
us of a well documented and large field of volunteer subjects in a remote and
high-risk malarial area.
But another friend of Abha Light came through, and in
another remote village of Kenya, in a district that, indeed, rates among the
highest infectious areas of the country, we found a place in the government
dispensery. And so we were on 10 July registering admist chaos and
organized disorganization as over 300 people poured into the clinic to join our research project.
All had to be tested, all had to be registered. There was
hardly a way to predict all the glitches we faced that day - the second
microscope couldn't work and we had call in a local guy just to bring us a
screwdriver, and even then we couldn't get it to work, the assigned clinical
officer begged off for the day and we were stuck until another was found and
generously gave his time, the pharmacy ran out of conventional malaria medicine
and we had to send for more, the electricity went off but luckily I had
foreseen that one and we had a solar lamp for the one functioning microscope to
use.
And the crowds! Everywhere people were clamoring to
register. Like all villages, here too, the hopes to be malaria-free and, no less, the
incentive we're paying, is significant enough to bring in a lot of people.
Well, we found only one or two persons who came who never get
malaria, and needed to send him home as a result! In fact over 50% who came
were currently infected with malaria. That means we are assured that the
database will be authentic in that this is a highly infected area. According to
the rules of our study, we must first treat them with the current conventional
medicine approved by the MoH (which, an insider in government research tells
me, is already failing after only 2 years in the market), then they will be
started on our prevention medicine.
We have a great team for this project - including an advisor
from KEMRI (the government research body), another from a malaria research body, and several
other experts to ensure that we have a high standard of quality and controls.
(Janet Levu, DHom, registering volunteers)
It will be a few months until we begin to see the results of this project. So we wait for developments.
But there is more... |
Additional Study
In addition to the prevention study, we are also going to undertake a treatment study from our own clinics by bringing back the patients for a followup test. We hope to include about 200 patients.
Every month at our various clinics in Kenya we normally see about 150-250 patients for malaria treatment alone. It is from these patients who already come for treatment to our clinics that we will be able to draw conclusive data on treatment. |
Your help is needed
This research is going to be a landmark for Kenya, Africa
and Homeopathy at large. Members of the Kenyan government have shown interest
in the results of this research. Many people are  watching us with their hopes
for our success.
There's certainly a mad rush to find the medicine that will
work for prevention of malaria. To date, all attempts at inventing a malaria
vaccine have failed. Even the government has directed to research into herbal
and alternative medicine for solutions to this problem as conventional medicine
has failed completely.
Didi & Shem at orientation
You can well imagine the implications for homeopathy of the
potential success of this research. Not to mention, too, of course, the
implications for all of Kenya and Africa if we can demonstrate what we believe
is true - that Homeopathy is the solution for epidemic diseases.
However, we've undergone a lot of unexpected expenses, and
more to come down the line. We're short of funds and need your help. We
are trying to raise another £3500 (US$ 5300/ Euro 4000) in order to complete
this 6-month study. Please, will you contribute and help us?
You can contribute directly through the following ways:
(a) Paypal to info@abhalight.org
Use your credit card or Paypal account
Click this Paypal button to immediately donate £100. Of course you can donate more, too!
(b) UK Bank (with charity status)
Abha Light Foundation
Account Number: 33372359
BANK Branch: Barclays Bank, Hackney
Sort Code: 204660
IBAN: GB08 BARC 2046 6033 3723 59
SWIFTBIC: BARCGB22
(c) Our partner in USA (with tax deduction for US citizens)
Make checks to "AMURT" and be sure to footnote the check "for Abha Light research". Email us to ensure that we're aware of the donation.
AMURT
2502 Lindley Terrace
Rockville, MD 20850
(d) Our charity partner in Netherlands
And be sure to footnote the check "for Abha Light research". Email us to ensure that we're aware of the donation.
www.stichtingnuru.nl
Sorcha Sickinghe
Beenekussteeg 16
7263 SB Mariënvelde Tel: 0544-482881
(e) Direct to our account in Kenya
Abha Light Foundation
a/c 1-110-000-858
National Industrial Credit Bank, LTD
The Mall Branch, Nairobi
SWIFT code: NINCKENA
SORT Code: 041105
ABA 124-071-889
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