Taking On the Pain: Something Salient from Spain

I'm so sorry I've been away from here for long; can't explain why. It's the weather, maybe.

Meanwhile, people have been stopping over - like Sally Cutting, below, an illustrator of books for children. She sent me an email that raises a good many salient issues:

Hi Adeleke, Congratulations for your blog! Clear and informative, easy to read. We don’t have enough news from sub-Saharan Africa, though a Spanish scientist made the news here when he found a partial treatment for malaria in children, only 40% effective I seem to remember, but his point was that 40% would be a huge number of children saved.This was to follow:Hi, Adeleke,The doctor who was (and most probably still is) working on a vaccine for malaria is Dr Pedro L Alonso of the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Spain. The project was in collaboration with the Centro de Investigación de la Salud de Manhica, Mozambique.This is now old news, but there was an article in “The Lancet” in October 2004 and I think more recently also. They were conducting trials which I imagine are still under way. Here are some links that may be of interest:-www.manhica.orgwww.malariavaccine.orgwww.thelancet.com/journals