Malaria is the number one health challenge for people living in the Lake Victoria Region of Tanzania. According to UN estimates, one child in Africa dies every 30 seconds from malaria. It accounts for one in five childhood deaths. GRA is responding to this crisis by promoting and subsidizing the use of a homeopathic neem tincture and mosquito bed nets to prevent malaria, as well as the use of Master Mineral Supplement (MMS) to treat malaria.

Neem Tincture

In natural medicine, the neem tree (Azadirachta indica) is recognized as an effective treatment for many diseases. The first records of its use date from about 4,500 years ago. And although neem has been used in India for thousands of years, this natural treatment was not introduced to the Western world until recently. The uses of neem are many and varied - crop protection, insect repellent, treatment of various skin disorders as well as systemic bacterial, viral and fungal infections and for the prevention and treatment of malaria, among others.

In 2005, GRA introduced a homeopathic neem tincture in the Lake Victoria region that was originally developed by the Abha Light Foundation in Nairobi, Kenya for the prevention and cure of chronic malaria. This homeopathic remedy is an ethanol based tincture carrying the medicinal properties of neem leaves. The tincture is easily produced, and a six-month supply for one individual in Tanzania costs only about 70 cents US. Download GRA’s neem tincture protocol…

GRA is training small groups to produce the homeopathic neem tincture to offer for sale within their communities. GRA is also entering into a one-year trial research study on the effectiveness of using neem drops and mosquito nets independently and combined. We are working with the National Institute for Medical Research in Mwanza, Tanzania and one of their senior researchers, Dr. Mashauri, as well as Dr. Makuke from Musoma. Preliminary data suggests that the neem tincture is highly effective for malaria prevention, as well as in treating patients with chronic malaria. Download GRA’s original study…

Mosquito Bed Nets

Most malaria carrying mosquitoes bite at night, making mosquito bed nets especially important in the prevention of the disease. Sleeping under a mosquito net is one of the most effective ways to prevent infection, yet only a small percentage - some estimates as low as 1% - of the children in Africa sleep under mosquito bed nets.

GRA has subsidized and donated over 5,000 nets to families living in Musoma and Kinesi Village. Since two to three people generally sleep under the same mosquito net, the total number of individuals benefiting is considerably higher. GRA will continue to raise funds to address the challenge of malaria far into the future.

Miracle Mineral Supplement (MMS)

MMS is a mineral supplement developed by Jim Humble. MMS can be used to treat any disease caused by bacteria, viruses, mold, yeast, parasites or any other pathogen. Jim Humble and many others have been using MMS to treat people living with hepatitis, herpes, food poisoning, infected gums, eye infections, burns, Lyme disease, the flu, bronchitis, some types of cancers and many other conditions with amazing results. More than 75,000 cases of malaria have been treated by Jim Humble or people he has trained. Treatment for one person costs only a few cents.

MMS is sodium chlorite, a highly alkaline mineral compound, that has been activated with citric acid, fresh lemon juice or vinegar to release chlorine dioxide. Chlorine dioxide is a well-known water purifier, a germicidal gas when used externally, a mineral supplement, and a detoxifying agent when used internally. It kills pathogens and cleans meat, fish and other foods. Chlorine dioxide gas (generated by MMS) destroys all kinds of bacteria, viruses, parasites, mold, yeast, and blood-borne diseases, and oxidizes them while doing no harm to normal, living human cells. Chlorine dioxide also neutralizes poisons and heavy metals in the body. When oxidized, these poisons are neutralized and merely wash out of the body. The American Society of Analytical Chemists said in 1999 that chlorine dioxide is the most powerful pathogen killer that exists.

GRA was introduced to MMS in 2008 by director Tara Blasco, who was using MMS herself to treat food poisoning while on field missions in Tanzania. Encouraged by Jim Humble’s extensive experience and research, as well as her own positive experience with MMS, Tara began collaborating with Dr. Makuke from Musoma, GRA’s herbalist, Godfrey Nyarutila, and Mr. Bugozi, an elder from a very remote village outside Musoma, to begin offering MMS for free to malaria patients with limited access to treatment. Everyone agreed that since MMS had no dangerous side effects for the prescribed dosage, it was worth exploring its potential as the affordable, accessible and effective means of malaria treatment currently absent from their communities.

After several months of trials, Tara met with her collaborators to get a report on their results using MMS. Although the data was purely anecdotal, each collaborator independently experienced good results for the majority of malaria patients they treated and were able to follow up with. For example, Mr. Bugozi, the elder, treated two children ages fifteen and five with severe malaria cases (a blood test was done before using MMS) that didn’t have access to medication, and after only 18 hours of treatment with only MMS, they had both recovered, and their blood showed no sign of the parasite.

In the Fall of 2008, GRA began formal trainings to teach community leaders how to administer MMS for malaria treatment. GRA now offers trainings a couple times every year.