Cannabis Science Joins Constituency for Africa to Improve Africa’s Healthcare Infrastructure
Cannabis Science, Inc. announced that it has joined forces with the Constituency for Africa (CFA) to focus on improving the healthcare and health-related education structure in Africa.
Cannabis Science’s President & CEO Raymond C. Dabney and Senior Scientific Advisor Dr. Roscoe M. Moore, Jr. have initiated a partnership between Cannabis Science and CFA to help improve the healthcare infrastructure as part of CFA’s 2015 strategy.
CFA, a Washington-based education and advocacy organization, was founded in 1990. Currently in its 25th year of operation, the organization has emerged as a leader in mobilizing public and private support for Africa in Washington, DC. The CFA plans on launching this African healthcare infrastructure initiative in February of next year, with a stakeholders’ forum in Washington. The forum will bring together senior officials and leaders in the African Union and African Diplomatic Corps, Obama Administration, Congress, World Bank, private sector, and the Diaspora. The effort will be led by a high-level advisory committee of experts, with a goal of dramatically improving the healthcare infrastructure across the African Continent.
Cannabis Science’s President & CEO will also serve as a co-chair of this new CFA Health Roundtable. Cannabis Science’s expertise in cannabinoid research will be used with the CFA’s multiple strengths and relationships to help further the cause in Africa of treating diseases and symptoms of diseases including cancer, relief from severe pain and some AIDS-related illnesses.
“The CFA enjoys direct access to a number of the key opinion leaders from African leaders to U.S. lawmakers to international development organizations. Most importantly, the CFA is highly connected to a range of Diaspora leaders and experts in healthcare and other fields, who have much to offer in the effort to help Africa. We can effectively bring these voices together to generate the needed momentum and investment to dramatically improve the healthcare infrastructure over the coming years,” said Dr. Moore.
According to the CFA’s President and CEO Melvin Foote, the launch of this initiative is timely and needed, with the Ebola epidemic serving as a “wake-up call.” Since the summer, more than 6,000 people in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea have died from Ebola, leaving a devastating effect on the economies of these countries, as well as other affected countries in the region. The Ebola crisis has caused schools to close and hospitals to become non-functional, demonstrating an urgent need for a much improved health infrastructure in the region and across Africa.
“The Ebola epidemic has been a tremendous wake-up call about the weak state of healthcare infrastructure in the countries strickened by the disease, particularly in the midst of the AIDS crisis. As Ebola rapidly spread to a number of countries in and outside of Africa, the entire world has finally realized that we are all at risk if we continue to ignore the plight of people in Africa, as any disease is only a plan ride away. We are extremely welcoming of Mr. Dabney and Cannabis Science’s aggressive leadership,” said Mr. Foote.
Source: Cannabis Science, Inc.
Last updated: 12/9/14; 10:10am EST
