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Dr. Carl P. Schaffner |
ROCK of Africa Foundation is a humanitarian effort dedicated to fighting famine and disease in the Third World by providing food, medicine, tools and education.
ROCK of Africa Foundation is providing food, clothing, medicine and medical supplies to poverty stricken regions of Africa. The foundation also promotes research and development of solutions to medical problems facing poor in underdeveloped countries in Africa and throughout the world.
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Dr. Carl P. Schaffner |
Under the direction of Carl P. Schaffner, Ph.D., professor emeritus at the Waksman Institute of Rutgers University, ROCK of Africa Foundation is assisting in development of new medicine to treat victims of HIV/AIDS in Africa.
The vast majority of people infected with the HIV virus in sub-Saharan Africa receive no medicine at all to treat the virus. The obvious reason is cost. Teams of researchers in the US and Africa are donating their time to develop low cost medicines for treating disease in the Third World.
ROCK of Africa Foundation has established collaborative research relationships with researchers in the United States, South Africa and Ghana, West Africa.
A patent free medication to treat HIV/AIDS victims in the Third World. AME is a derivative of Amphotericin B, a highly effective medication for treatment of fungal disease.
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Low cost medication treatment
for HIV/AIDS patients in the Third World |
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Dual efficacy |
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Outpatient treatment from
Rural Clinics |
AME
-- a medical miracle?
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Kenneth R. Reuhl, Ph.D.
Professor of Neurotoxicology School of Pharmacy Rutgers University |
Carl P. Schaffner, Ph.D. Director, AME Research Group Professor Emeritus Waksman Institute of Microbiology |
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Eric O. Freed, Ph.D. Chief, Virus Cell Interaction Section HIV Drug Resistance Program National Cancer Institute National Institutes of Health |
Samuel Afrane, Ph.D. Senior Lecturer Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kumasi, Ghana, West Africa |
The research team headed by Dr. Schaffner includes: Dr. Robert Parsons, Basking Ridge, NJ; (the late Dr. Paul Hoeprich, Wilmington, DE conducted much research in this project until his death); and others. Africa based team members include: Dr. George Bedu-Addo; Dr. Sampson Agodzo; Dr. T. C. Fleischer; and Dr. Yao Dwomo-Fokuo.
For further information regarding the AME research project contact: Research@ROCKofAfrica.org
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