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    "content": "have to buy it from the USA, yet it was their native plant. In Kenya, we do not have an active, or live sector, that raises issues that have to do with our traditional plants. We have the mwarubaini, the neem plant, which is very beneficial in this country. We must put resources into their uses. The Acting Director of the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Dr. Jennifer Kurua, indicated that the challenges that they are facing are because they do not have a regulatory framework and the law to back what they are doing. We must put in place a clear legislative framework as a country. The resources that we have, that are rich, must be protected and access to them must be predicated on exchange of technology. This is so that when the West comes and accesses our plants, they must also give us technology. This is because even if you look at chloroquine and quinine, they are actually from plants that originated from Africa and Latin America, yet we buy them off the shelves. So, even right now, we have people in Kenya and Tanzania who have herbal medicines that can cure cancer, but we want to associate herbal medicine with witchcraft. Witchcraft is a crime and must be outlawed but herbal medicine is a benefit to this country and must be protected."
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