Foreign Affairs committee  I agree with you. We must continue to encourage research, because vaccination is the ultimate solution in the medium term. We are going through a stage like the one that preceded the current combined drug treatments. For over 50 years, a prevention treatment used chloroquine. Fo

Foreign Affairs committee  The success rates are quite high today, over 80% to 85%, for both uncomplicated and severe malaria cases. Uncomplicated malaria cases are treated with pills taken orally for three to five days. If the treatment starts early, the disease stops completely after five days. You just

Foreign Affairs committee  We can come close to a 100% success rate when the patient is looked after quite early. The longer it takes to start treatment, the more likely the treatment is to fail.

Foreign Affairs committee  My door is open all year round.

Foreign Affairs committee  I would just like to add that I began my research and development career in France, with the pharmaceutical group Sanofi. Based on that experience, I would invite you to be very careful in raising hopes about vaccines, as we can often do. As long as a vaccine has not been demonst

Foreign Affairs committee  The difficulty with malaria is that its development cycle is long and it involves a number of factors. You cannot get malaria unless you are bitten by what we call an anopheles mosquito, a female mosquito. However, in order to pass on malaria when it bites you, that anopheles mo

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, it is. Less than 10 years ago in Africa, almost one million deaths per year were attributed to malaria. In the last two or three years, that number has decreased by almost half. Black Africa now only has about 580,000 deaths per year and that can be attributed to concerted e

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Ms. Brown, thank you for your question, which is a very important one for Cameroon. For ten years or so now, Cameroon has been putting a lot of effort into organizing a structured dialogue between the public and private sectors. We now have the Cameroon Bu

Foreign Affairs committee  Experts in analysis on a global scale, like Hervé, will be able to corroborate my remarks. As I said earlier, Cameroon can be used as an example, given its location, its level of development and its ability to respond to any subsidies offered. Those figures are easily transposed

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, madam. Mr. Chair, I believe that Cameroon is quite a typical case that can be used as an example, because it is right in the centre of the Gulf of Guinea, putting it in the geographical centre of this endemic disease. What can be done in Cameroon can easily be done in

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. My name is Dr. Pierre Flambeau Ngayap. I'm a senator from Cameroon. I'm very happy to be here today. Canada and Cameroon have the same history concerning language. We are a bilingual country. We speak both official languages, French and English. Permit me