"African Healing Wisdom" Conference (2)
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Dear Sir,
I am glad that someone is looking up and not down on the impact
traditional medicine has on our health. This goes way back to
the beginning of civilization. However I would like to bring to
your attention the need to guard against exploitation of the Af-
rican people. In this am thinking of inability to patent (pay
for patenting of their knowledge and drugs) their findings and
protecting their rights to royalties as individuals, countries
and as a continent. Would you go so far as to fund this to pro-
mote equity??
I was at one time pivotal to promoting the same thing at na-
tional level in my country. I am very keen to hear how this can
come about.
Sincerely,
Aileen Jacobus, MPhil Int. Health/SCM/RGN
mailto:makanyorei@yahoo.co.uk