This is an excerpt from a recent email I received from Lutheran Church Charities. We pray for the work that John and Gary will do in Africa.
On October 18-28, 2008 Dr. Susan Busse, John Peterson and Gary Kessler, both members of Lord of Life Lutheran Church in La Fox, will be joining 7 members from Christ Community Church in St. Charles on a medical missions trip to Bo, Sierra Leone in West Africa. The purpose of the trip is to conduct an initial clinical trial of a new malaria treatment. Pre-trial dispensing of this medication by Dr. Busse has shown great promise at quickly relieving the debilitating, and for children life threatening, effects of this pervasive disease of the tropics.
This initial trial, though smaller in numbers and shorter in duration than later trials, will provide needed data that will hopefully convince larger compassion organizations to finance more extensive trials. The ultimate goal is to make available to the world this inexpensive and easy to administer treatment.
Christ Community Church's contact in Sierra Leone operates many medical clinics. The team intends to base their operations at these clinics and conduct their trials there.
They not only need funds for travel expenses for the three of them, but they also need help obtaining the medical supplies necessary to conduct the trial. They also need your prayers. May this trip be the first step in easing so much suffering around the world.
While they are not working with either Doctors Without Borders or with UNICEF, both organizations have produced videos that show graphically the scope and challenges posed by this disease. The Dr Ho slide show was filmed in Bo, Sierra Leone, exactly where the team is going.
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/photogallery/gallery.cfm?id=2491
www.unicef.org/infobycountry/sierraleone_39463.html
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