ARC (Apiceutical Research Centre): Developing a Global BeePharma Network Local Help for Local Health

Year 2018, Volume: 1 Issue: 3 - 2nd Propolis Conference Special Issue, 32 - 32, 08.12.2018

Hugo Fearnley

Abstract

The discovery of
an antitrypanosomal chemical in a sample of propolis from an area where
sleeping sickness was present in the local population further stimulated ARC’s
growing understanding of how the honey bee may be collecting the plants
response to its local health challenges, making it its own and at the same time
producing a biochemical cocktail that could help human beings resist those same
local health challenges.

The BeePharma
Africa project was conceived in 2013 as a vehicle for further exploring the
idea of local medicines from the beehive by building a network of beekeepers,
academics, health professionals and government agencies initially to look at
three major local diseases Leishmania, Malaria and Trypanosomiasis – all
protozoal infections. 

In 2016 Hugo
Fearnley (Director of ARC) received a research award from the Winston Churchill
Memorial Trust to visit 6 African countries to explore this area, collect
samples and investigate the potential of rural beekeeping in the local
economies.

Two new Bee Pharma projects are now being set up in
Jordan and India.  ARC now wishes to
encourage the creation of other independent BeePharma projects i.e.
partnerships between independent groups of beekeepers/academics/health
professionals and ARC to further understand how the honey bee can provide Local
Help for Local Health.

Keywords

propolis, Apiceutical Research Centre

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