UK firm seeks to market world's first malaria vaccine

[Haatu]

 

British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline is seeking regulatory approval for the world's first malaria vaccine after trial data showed that it had cut the number of cases in African children.

 

Experts say that they are optimistic about the possibility of the world's first vaccine after the trial results.

 

Malaria, a mosquito-borne parasitic disease, kills hundreds of thousands of people worldwide every year.

 

Scientists say an effective vaccine is key to attempts to eradicate it.

 

The vaccine known as RTS,S was found to have almost halved the number of malaria cases in young children in the trial and to have reduced by about 25% the number of malaria cases in infants.

 

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is developing RTS,S with the non-profit Path Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI), supported by funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

 

"Many millions of malaria cases fill the wards of our hospitals," said Halidou Tinto, a lead investigator on the RTS,S trial from Burkina Faso.

 

"Progress is being made with bed nets and other measures, but we need more tools to battle this terrible disease."

 

The malaria trial was Africa's largest-ever clinical trial involving almost 15,500 children in seven countries.

 

The findings were presented at a medical meeting in Durban, South Africa.

 

"Based on these data, GSK now intends to submit, in 2014, a regulatory application to the European Medicines Agency (EMA)," GSK said in a statement.

 

The company has been developing the vaccine for three decades.

 

The statement said that the hope now is that the Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO) may recommend the use of the RTS,S vaccine from as early as 2015 if EMA drugs regulators back its licence application.

 

Testing showed that 18 months after vaccination, children aged five to 17 months had a 46% reduction in the risk of clinical malaria compared to unvaccinated contemporaries.

 

But in infants aged six to 12 weeks at the time of vaccination, there was only a 27% reduction in risk.

 

A spokeswoman for GSK told the AFP news agency that the company would file its application to the EMA under a process aimed at facilitating new drugs for poorer countries.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24431510

[nuune]

- Malaria vaccine is available in Cuba as the vaccine originated there and was invented there

- HIV/AIDS vaccine is available in Cuba as the vaccine originated there and was invented there

- Cancer cure vaccine is available in Cuba as the vaccine originated there and was invented there

- Many of the world's diseases that could not be cured at all, thanks to Cuba, it is available now.

 

The Western world, including their poodles of UNICEF, MSF, and others such as WHO don't want to market these vaccines which could save many lives.

 

The Western world economy will collapse if these vaccines are introduced, which can result the loss of 8 million pharmaceutical jobs in Europe, North America & Australia.

 

 

 

Dr Haatu, go to Cuba sxb, and come back loaded!

[YoniZ]

Long life to comrade Che and his genius inventions

[QansaxMeygaag]

nuune;980721 wrote:

- Malaria vaccine is available in Cuba as the vaccine originated there and was invented there

- HIV/AIDS vaccine is available in Cuba as the vaccine originated there and was invented there

- Cancer cure vaccine is available in Cuba as the vaccine originated there and was invented there

- Many of the world's diseases that could not be cured at all, thanks to Cuba, it is available now.

 

The Western world, including their poodles of UNICEF, MSF, and others such as WHO don't want to market these vaccines which could save many lives.

 

The Western world economy will collapse if these vaccines are introduced, which can result the loss of 8 million pharmaceutical jobs in Europe, North America & Australia.

 

 

 

Dr Haatu,

go to Cuba sxb, and come back loaded!

Nuune are you serious? Cuba would have been flooded by western pharmaceutical companies by now no? And would have made billions of dollars?

[SomaliPhilosopher]

Nuune is a sensationalist, I am starting to learn that.

[nuune]

QansaxMeygaag;980746 wrote:

Nuune are you serious? Cuba would have been flooded by western pharmaceutical companies by now no? And would have made billions of dollars?

Yaa Qansax, Cuba saad ogtaheyba waxaa saaran cuna qabateen lagu darey cuna qabateen kale, marka no Western government will allow its pharmaceutical companies to market any of Cuba's breakthroughs.

 

It was only last month that Cuba released the World's First Lung Cancer Vaccine, they made the discovery back 2011, and were researching and patenting what would be one of the greatest cures for cancer related..., and that breakthrough didn't even made into world headlines, that says enough!

[QansaxMeygaag]

^^^

Looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

[QansaxMeygaag]

nuune;980860 wrote:

Yaa

Qansax

, Cuba saad ogtaheyba waxaa saaran cuna qabateen lagu darey cuna qabateen kale, marka no Western government will allow its pharmaceutical companies to market any of Cuba's breakthroughs.

 

It was only last month that Cuba released the World's First Lung Cancer Vaccine, they made the discovery back 2011, and were researching and patenting what would be one of the greatest cures for cancer related..., and that breakthrough didn't even made into world headlines, that says enough!

But the same western companies go to the world's worst authoritarian and/or conflict zones to harvest other natural resources...I have not known anything to stop the greed of western transnationals....not even sanctions and large-scale civil war...

[nuune]

^^ Also it doesn't stop medical students from abroad studying in Cuba.

 

The embargo on Cuba is not an ordinary one, it is rather a large scale one that prevented Cuba exporting anything of value, and any state that wants to import stuff from Cuba will be punished forever.

[QansaxMeygaag]

^^

 

Then we should lobby for lifting of this unfair embargo - seems like humanity needs Cuba more than Cuba needs the rest of us :cool: