I try to understand how adults in Africa learn to live in harmony with the parasite responsible for malaria, such that infections do not make them il… - Faith Osier

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I try to understand how adults in Africa learn to live in harmony with the parasite responsible for malaria, such that infections do not make them ill. This knowledge could help us design vaccines that would protect children, who can die as a result of a malaria infection.

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About Faith Osier

Faith Hope Among’in Osier (born 1972) is a Kenyan immunologist, paediatrician and educator.

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Alternative Names: Faith Hope Among’in Osier Faith Hope A. Osier Faith HA Osier
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The closest comparison I can give is with COVID-19. When it hit Western countries, we all felt it: the pain of lockdown; of losing someone; of being ill ourselves. We felt that urgency, that we needed a vaccine and we needed it yesterday, so we said, ‘let's do it, let's do everything that we can’. For diseases that are far off, that sense of urgency is lost.

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