Did The Red Cross Suppress A Cure For Malaria in 2012?

Written by Pierre Kory MD, MPA on August 20, 2025. Posted in Current News

More evidence that international health care organizations (and all governmental health care and regulatory agencies) are fully captured by Big Pharma

The Red Cross Malaria Trial

“The Water Reference Center (WRC)” is a research center within the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).

In 2012, their CEO at the time, Klaas Proesmans, conducted a study testing the efficacy of a common water purification agent called chlorine dioxide to treat malaria.

The treatment consisted of increasing the concentration in cups of drinking water to levels above those typically used solely for water purification.

Note that this effective treatment was first accidentally discovered by an applied scientist working in Nigeria in 1982, as I reported in this prior post.

In that study, the WRC and the Ugandan Red Cross identified 154 patients from the community around Iganga, Uganda, using skin pricks to gather drops of blood from patients suspected of being ill with malaria.

They then placed the blood on slides and examined them under a microscope to look for the malaria parasite. Then they treated the patients who were positive for malaria by giving them cups of water to drink that had been treated with chlorine dioxide in the form of what Jim Humble called “Master Mineral Solution” (a mixture of sodium chlorite and hydrochloric acid).

They then had the patients return to the testing/study center daily for re-testing and clinical follow-up.

They rapidly cured 154 malaria patients within two days. Sounds historic, right? A cure for malaria had been found! But no, it was not to be. Not even close.

As word of the trial and its success began to circulate, the “authorities” sprang into action, culminating in the Ugandan Red Cross and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) issuing statements denying any official involvement in the study.

They then went even further, stating that no formal clinical trial or endorsement of MMS took place under their auspices. The IFRC also added that “chlorine dioxide is not approved for the treatment of malaria and that any suggestion of Red Cross involvement was misleading.”

They even got the CEO of the Water Reference Center who had planned and conducted the trial… to deny it ever happened.

Interestingly, none of the statements above were published in an official Press Release or statement; they were instead communicated solely via quotes in an interview with an investigative journalist in a blatantly obvious “debunking article” published by Business Insider.

First, I will review the extensive evidence verifying both the conduct and results of that trial. Then I will cover the above “Disinformation Response” from the media and the Red Cross in more detail.

However, to understand the importance of the documented evidence that I will provide below, you need to know that the Business Insider article tried to “debunk” the claim that the trial was done by:

1) claiming it never took place, and

2) that Red Cross officials were “duped” into taking part.

Yes, I know, the argument contradicts itself – either the trial never took place or Red Cross officials were “duped” into taking part, you can’t have both. Later, you will see how they later reconciled those two statements.

Documentation of the Trial And its Results

Problem #1 for the Red Cross: During my research for this post, I came across a website where someone named Santiago Cabrera uploaded the full project plan for the trial by the Water Reference Center. After paying $11.99, I was able to download the document (see the source document – Ed)

Most damning is the Table of Contents where you can clearly see that “Klaas” (Proesmans) drafted Version 1.0 of the document in the below right corner, where it is dated November 16, 2012:

Here is an AI-generated summary of the document:

The objective of the project plan in the document is to conduct a water purification pilot case in Uganda through the Water Reference Center (WRC). The pilot aims to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of using chlorine dioxide (ClO2) and sodium chlorite (NaClO2) for purifying water, with a specific focus on any positive side effects in the fight against malaria.

Key goals of the project include:

1. Performing field tests in malaria-infested areas in Uganda, leveraging the expertise of the Uganda Red Cross Society.
2. Documenting the outcomes in a comprehensive report and audiovisual material (Ed: this latter objective is important as you will see below).
3. Establishing a “center of excellence” in the pilot location for ongoing research and development within the Red Cross/Red Crescent network.
4. Coordinating between private sustainable businesses, research institutions, academic bodies, and humanitarian organizations to advance water purification technologies and their deployment.
5. The project also includes clear planning for communication, testing protocols, and legal terms of engagement among involved parties.

Overall, the project is designed to validate the water purification approach, assess its broader health impact, and promote sustainable water treatment solutions within vulnerable communities.

Problem #2 for the Red Cross: As stated in #2 of the project plan above, they planned to document the outcomes using “audiovisual material.” Thus the documentary of the trial had been planned beforehand (and later paid handsomely for) by the Water Reference Center, likely because the organizers of the study strongly suspected it would be a success (Jim Humble and many others in Africa had been covertly curing malaria with MMS for almost 2 decades at that point).

So a team of filmmakers documented the entire study from start to finish? “Real world evidence” as it were. And not just any filmmaker. The Director was… Mustaque Abdallah:

From AI:

Mustaque Abdallah is a prominent Ugandan documentary filmmaker and director of photography. He is best known as one of the first DOPs (Directors of Photography) in Uganda and is associated with Ebony Hue Studios, Ebony Hue Films, and Ebony Heights Ltd. Abdallah has a long history in the Ugandan film industry, starting out filming weddings and gradually building his career to work on major projects.

Some of his notable achievements and projects include:

Serving as the DOP for the acclaimed Ugandan feature film “27 Guns,” which is regarded as a landmark production in Ugandan cinema.

Working alongside international film crews from South Africa and the UK, which helped develop his craft and reputation.

Being involved in a wide variety of music videos and documentaries that helped put Ugandan media on the international stage, including music videos aired on MTV.

Abdallah’s career demonstrates significant influence in elevating documentary and music video standards in Uganda, and he is recognized as a visionary and leader among Ugandan filmmakers.

So, this supposedly “fake” documentary was made by one of the top filmmakers in Uganda? I wonder if Abdallah’s above reputation would be possible if he was known to “fake his documentaries.”

From accounts I have read online, and in an interview with Mark Grenon, (who was present during the trial but not included in the documentary), what happened next is that, since the Red Cross and Proesmans were denying that the trial took place, Leo Koehof, a Dutch humanitarian and one of the other principal organizers of the trial, defiantly posted the documentary on YouTube in 2013.

Oddly, YouTube did not take it down until the Business Insider article was published in 2019.

Now, lets take a close look at all the documented evidence compiled in the documentary.

The Red Cross Trial Documentary (can be viewed here on BitChute)

Even before I discovered that the Director of the film was a highly regarded and accomplished filmmaker, it was clear from the quality of the documentary (expertly blended cuts and montages of “B-roll” scenes and sit-down interviews with all those involved in the planning and conduct of the trial) that it was a planned film project by an expert filmmaker. Of note, I emailed the director Mustaque Abdallah for an interview, but have not heard back.

Most importantly, the vast majority of the commentary and interview footage in the documentary was with the principal investigator of the trial who drafted the project plan above – “Klaas” Proesmans, an ex-Belgian Special Forces soldier who, at the time of the trial, was the CEO and founder of the Water Reference Center (WRF), a “research” unit of the Red Cross.

Damning no? His CV on LinkedIn is also impressive, having worked in the aviation industry as the Director of Operations at Virgin Express Airlines before going into full-time humanitarian work, first for Virgin Airlines and then as an independent consultant before volunteering for the WRC.

In the documentary interviews with the key participants, the language used indicates that the interviews were conducted both during and soon after the trial (as planned), and before the dissemination of results. I say this because one of the last statements by Proesmans in the documentary was;

We close the operation to report back to the Secretary General here in Uganda’s Red Cross Society, and to report back to the Water Reference Center about the results of the severe test.

Next, he states that “it has been said that the use of sodium chlorite cleans the body within one hour to four hours of the malaria parasite.” Tellingly, he then states that he was also told “that it was too good to be true” and “not to go further and do an investigation.”

Hmm. So he is clearly positioning himself as being defiant of that directive because he immediately segues into explaining how Uganda was chosen for the trial.

Through our network, since we are affiliated with the International Red Cross, we contacted a number of national societies where malaria is present. One of them was Uganda.

He then explains the actions he took to make the trial happen, with astonishingly precise detail, by first contacting the National Society Secretary General of Uganda;

“We explained what the intentions were, and we came over here just to to look at the field, what different steps one need to make in order to do this test pilot case. We visited the National Drug Agency, the Ministry of Health, all the people that have something to do with public health and purifying of water.

We identified a village. Actually, it is the National Society who identified a village, and we had nothing to do with it. They chose Iganga. It has been chosen by the Red Cross National Society for two reasons. One, because the national authorities use sodium chlorite as a way to purify water, which is exactly the same way as our water reference center purifies water.

Second reason is because they do have ongoing water and sanitation programs in that area, which is very convenient to the water reference center, because what we actually want to do in this month of December is look at the effect that sodium chlorite has on the human body after being offered a glass of water.”

Not only does this convey a highly organized, detailed, and planned “investigation.” but he also almost covertly describes the intervention. He purposely does not mention they will be testing MMS, and instead presents the treatment obliquely as simple “water purification,” in as subtle a manner as possible.

He says all this over a montage of footage showing Proesmans surrounded by Ugandans in Red Cross uniform shirts discussing something, followed by scenes of an open-air, roofed enclosure with dozens of Ugandan people sitting in chairs, and you see a flag of the Ugandan Red Cross hanging from the tent.

He then literally describes the sequence of actions they took to make the trial happen:

We started with mobilizing the local population. We had the use or the cooperation of the National Society. Lots of volunteers went on their bikes, bicycles, cars, motorbikes, whatever you have, all around the streets.

The first day of operation, we gathered about 163 patients from all the villages around, and we identified only five malaria-positive people. She comes from far away? Yeah, she comes from far away.

We do a little blood test, just a little prick, and then we do a quick strip malaria test.

This is said over footage showing a Red cross worker doing a finger prick under the tent, the Ugandans waiting, and then a shot of the test strips laid out on a worn table.

For those with an observant eye, you can see a piece of paper in the corner of the frame with letterhead which reads “Water Reference Center” – the Red Cross research organization he was the CEO of at the time!

This is taken from a long document. Read the rest here pierrekorymedicalmusings.com

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