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ROCK of Africa Foundation is dedicated to fighting disease and famine in the Third World by providing medicine, food, tools and education.
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ROCK of Africa Foundation provides medicine and medical supplies to poverty stricken regions of Africa. The foundation also promotes and funds the research and development of solutions to enormous medical problems facing poor in underdeveloped countries in Africa and throughout the world.
ROCK of Africa Foundation funds and supports medical research in the US and Africa. ROCK of Africa Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit humanitarian relief organization. For further information regarding ROCK of Africa Foundation email: foundation@ROCKofAfrica.org
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 AIDS virus in sub-Saharan Africa receive no medicine at all to treat the virus. The obvious reason is cost. Teams of Christian 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. Research is currently being conducted in the US and in 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 recent 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 Medicine for Africa research project contact Dr. Schaffner. CSchaffner@ROCKofAfrica.org
