A campaign to educate all world travelers about Mefloquine neurotoxicity.
Our MISSION is to provide information to, and encourage the formal establishment of basic health care provisions for, individuals injured by mefloquine.
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Antimalarial Drug May Be Effective Against PML
Coverage from the XXIII World Congress of Neurology (WCN) Originally published 26 September 2017 KYOTO, Japan — The antimalarial drug mefloquine may prove to be an effective treatment for progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) in patients not infected with...
Alarm as ‘super malaria’ spreads in South East Asia
Malaria is caused by a parasite spread by blood-sucking mosquitoes. Originally published September 22 to the BBC News website The rapid spread of "super malaria" in South East Asia is an alarming global threat, scientists are warning. This dangerous form...
’25 years I struggled’: Sask. veteran pushing Ottawa to help soldiers affected by anti-malaria drug
Canadian Armed Forces veteran Dave Bona is marching in Ottawa on Tuesday to call for more help for veterans suffering from the side-effects of mefloquine. (CBC News). Originally published by CBC News Sask. - September 18, 2017 An army veteran from...
Mefloquine Rally September 19-20th Parliament Hill, Ottawa
Mefloquine Awareness Canada (MAC) is a group comprised of Canadian Forces veterans, family members, civilians, and medical experts. We aim to raise awareness of the harms caused by the use of the anti-malarial drug mefloquine (also known as Lariam). 14:50 -...
Veteran likens anti-malaria pill’s effects to Agent Orange
An Australian veteran (not pictured) who claims her brain injury was caused by a controversial anti-malaria drug has compared the tablets with the notorious Agent Orange chemical. Originally published September 9, 2017 An Australian veteran who claims her...
UK Hotline Set Up For Those Worried Of Lariam Poisoning
Originally published September 6, 2016 Military personnel concerned about the side-effects of taking the anti-malarial drug Lariam are being urged to contact the MoD. It follows recommendations made by a recent Defence Committee report into the...
“Canadians Need Mefloquine Awareness” – Gord Johns
Representing Mefloquine Awareness Canada, Pieter Vorster met with Gord Johns, M.P. at the final leg of his Ride The Riding tour. Visit Gord Johns' website to find out more about his Ride The Riding tour. On Saturday, 1 September, I had the opportunity to...
Cure or curse?
By Sharon Adams with illustrations by Robert Carter. Originally published in Legion Magazine September/October 2017. Reproduced with permission of Legion Magazine. Canadian Airborne Regiment veteran Dave Bona woke up with the same question every...
Australian veterans fighting toxic side effects of anti-malaria drugs
Australian soldiers serving in East Timor during 2000 to 2002 were given the anti-malaria drug mefloquine. Originally published August 30, 2017 at 12:26 pm Schizophrenia, hallucinations, seizures and self harm are among the disorders allegedly affecting Australian...
Defense requested a “DuBay” hearing
Defense requested a "DuBay" hearing to obtain additional relevant evidence related to whether SSG Bales was exposed and how we had affected. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia United States v. DuBay, 17 USCMA 147, 37 CMR 411, was a 1967 case which established...
Antimalarial drug mefloquine drove her husband ‘to madness,’ Sask. woman says
Marj Matchee is asking the government to reopen the Somalia inquiry. Her husband was charged with second-degree murder in the 1993 death of a Somali teen, which is considered one of the darkest chapters in Canada's military history. (Don Somers/CBC)....
MAC members Meet with Parliament Members
Above: Marj Matchee, Cathay Wagantall M.P., Dave Bona, and Bev Skwernuik. Some members from Mefloquine Awareness Canada met with Members of Parliament, Cathay Wagantall and Dr Robert Kitchen and others, to discuss mefloquine and the effects it has had on...
Feds Still Fighting Canadian Veterans in Court
Canadian Military Veteran Aaron Bedard served as a sapper in Afghanistan. He's now part of a class action lawsuit with the Equitas Society against the Federal Government. The action, in part, asks for the Federal government to fulfill a sacred obligation to care for...
Canadian military to reassess controversial anti-malaria drug
The head of the Canadian Armed Forces says the military is reassessing the use of an anti-malarial drug that can cause serious psychiatric side-effects now that Health Canada agrees the brain damage associated with mefloquine can be permanent. Whether to continue...
Veterans urge another look at Clayton Matchee case
Former Canadian Airborne soldier Clayton Matchee lives in a North Battleford home afflicted with brain damage from a suicide attempt — a desperate act after he was charged in the murder of a Somali teenager. That was more than 20 years ago, during Canada’s ill-fated...
Veterans want inquiry into malaria drug’s effects
Former soldiers want the Canadian government to hold an inquiry into the effects of mefloquine, a malaria-prevention drug they were obliged to take during the disastrous Somalia mission in the 1990s. Troops were sent on a peace-keeping mission to deal with an...
The devastating effects of a anti-malaria drug on the military
Somalia, Rwanda and Afghanistan, authorities administered for months mefloquine soldiers. The drug against malaria has devastating effects, some of them, ranging from hallucinations to depression. For a pharmacist that we consulted, it is clear that mefloquine may, in...
Defence Minister puts onus on troops
Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan is defending his department's continued prescription of an anti-malarial drug that Health Canada now agrees can cause permanent brain damage, saying troops make their own informed decisions about whether to take it. Mr. Sajjan told...
Probe malaria drug’s psychotic effect on troops
Former members of the Canadian Armed Forces want the federal government to reassess the effects of mefloquine on troops who took part in the ill-fated Somalia mission in the 1990s now that Health Canada has agreed that the drug, which was forced upon those soldiers,...
Veterans urge second look at soldier’s role in torture death
Former Canadian Airborne soldier Clayton Matchee lives in a North Battleford, Sask., home afflicted with brain damage from a suicide attempt — a desperate act after he was charged in the murder of a Somali teenager. That was more than 20 years ago, during Canada’s...
Vets to meet with VA Committee
Dave Bona waited 20 years for a chance to tell Canadian MPs about the plight of soldiers like himself suffering for years from harmful side-effects of the anti-malaria drug mefloquine. This week, Bona, who lives near Saskatoon, will travel to Ottawa and present his...