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THE PRICE OF MODERN MEDICINE
Increasingly modern medicine is proving that it is
not sustainable. At the same time as we have 'cured' people
with our 'magic bullet' single active medicines we have also
created major long term health problems through drug side
effects and through long term resistance. On top of this,
the truth is that for many people modern drugs don't work,
a fact recently admitted by a vice president of pharmaceutical
giant GlaxoSmithKline."The vast majority of drugs - more
than 90 per cent -only work in 30 or 50 percent of the people.
Dr. Allen Roses, vice president of genetics, GlaxoSmithKline
(GSK).
THE PROBLEM IN AFRICA
Nowhere is this problem more acute than
in the so called developing world - in Africa and parts of
Asia. In these countries whole communities are dying from
HIV and AIDS. The chemical drug solution has not provided
the big answer to this world wide problem. Indeed it may have
created it.
A RENAISSANCE OF NATURAL MEDICINE
Finally though, we are beginning to accept
that the natural world from which so many of our synthetic
drugs came, may again have a contribution to play both in treating
disease and maintaining long term sustainable health. Major
International medical agencies like WHO (World Health Organisation)
are now committed to carrying out research to test natural
medicines and supplements .
BEEVITAL IN AFRICA
The team at BeeVital have supported a
number of projects in Africa over many years In such places
as Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania and South Africa. Claire Scutt,
herself from Zambia and our Coordinator for Africa, has for
the last 15 years worked like a missionary for propolis, providing
products to HIV and AIDS projects, holding seminars and training
sessions and most importantly tracking down and talking to
key health decision makers in all the countries of central,
eastern and southern Africa.
BEES FOR DEVELOPMENT
Bees for Development, based in the UK,
promote beekeeping as a tool for rural economic development
throughout the world with a strong emphasis on countries in
Africa. Dr. Nicola Bradbear, its founder, has done a great
deal to stimulate an understanding of the importance of the
role of beekeeping not just in the economic sphere but also
in providing products which improve nutrition and medicine.
BeeVital and Bees for Development are working together to
introduce the idea of collecting propolis both to add economic
value to beekeeping and to encourage people to recognise the
local presence of a powerful and effective medicine which
they can use themselves.
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