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letsdothis3 ago

Support of Front-Line Workers in Ebola Crisis - http://partnerships.ifpma.org/partnership/support-of-front-line-workers-in-ebola-crisis

Several IFPMA pharmaceutical companies have been involved in efforts to develop Ebola vaccines. For more information on research and development activities of some of these companies, refer to profiles for GSK, J&J and MSD.

GSK donated $690,000 in cash contributions for the three most affected countries: Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. These donations include $562,000 to Save the Children, a long-standing partner in the region, to scale up work with frontline healthcare workers to maintain the delivery of essential health services and tackle the outbreak of Ebola. GSK also made donations of $64,000 each to humanitarian partners, AmeriCares and Direct Relief to enable these organisations to purchase and deliver critical supplies of personal protection equipment (PPE). Alongside this, GSK significantly increased medicine donations, with donated GSK products worth more than $1,122,500 to partners AmeriCares and Project HOPE.

As well as providing humanitarian support to affected regions, GSK accelerated the development of its candidate vaccine for Ebola at an unprecedented rate, with trials now underway.

GSK fast tracked development of the Ebola vaccine with many organisations, including the National Institutes of Health in the USA, the WHO, the Wellcome Trust and the UK Government. Learning from this experience GSK closely monitored the outbreak of the Zika virus in Brazil.

..Johnson & Johnson committed to a cash contribution of $1,000,000 to help advance health care worker safety and effectiveness in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Novartis worked with local business operations in affected regions, committed about $1,000,000 to the Red Cross and matched amounts raised by a global donation program among employees...

Bayer made medicines with a market value of $3.2 million available to Direct Relief free of charge to treat Ebola patients in Liberia and Sierra Leone. ..

The list goes on including: Pfizer and the Pfizer Foundation; AbbVie Foundation; AstraZeneca; Merck; Sanofi Foundation; Bristol-Myers Squibb; Abbott and Abbott Fund (Key partner organizations included AmeriCares, Direct Relief, Heart to Heart International and Partners In Health); Takeda; Roche; Janssen Diagnostics

Wellcome Sanger Institute: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellcome_Sanger_Institute

The Wellcome Sanger Institute, previously known as The Sanger Centre and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, is a non-profit British genomics and genetics research institute, primarily funded by the Wellcome Trust

Wellcome Trust and Zika https://wellcome.ac.uk/news/taking-action-zika

A biotech firm called Oxitec (opens in a new tab), which the Wellcome Trust funded for several years, has developed a genetically modified version of the male Aedes aegypti mosquito, which produces sterile offspring.

We have funded another mosquito control programme called Eliminate Dengue (opens in a new tab), which uses naturally occurring bacteria called wolbachia to curb the spread of infection.

Voat posts:

comment by @carmencita https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/3182126/18274137

Bill Gates, who recently bought 500,000 shares of Monsanto stock, is reportedly funding the approval of genetically modified mosquitoes. It seems that not only will genetically modified salmon enter the environment along with unforeseen changes, but a new self-sterilizing mosquito may be joining them...

Biotech company Oxitec submitted a draft of its plan in March to release thousands of genetically modified male Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes into the area. This is the species of mosquito that carries and transmits Zika, dengue, and other nasty diseases. But Oxitec's version of these mosquitoes come with a genetic twist: a gene that wipes out any offspring they produce with wild female mosquitoes before the baby mosquitoes reach reproductive age.

Truthseeker3000 ago

Oxitec released them in Florida USA and Mila de Mier was murdered for her tireless work advising the public against Oxitec and their GMO mosquitos etc. They shut her up however more people are involved in the fight and won’t let her memory and work fade away.