THE STANDARD
LETTERS
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The news that Africa is gearing up to produce its own vaccines could not have come at a better time.
To use Raila Odinga’s words, Africa producing its own vaccines is a great step in the right direction. This would not only delink us from writing good literature on the noble innovations of vaccines only done by Western countries on our dissertations but would enable us to expeditiously solve eminent medical problems amicably without looking to the West as has become the norm.
While I would want to agree with Raila that Kenya can easily be the pharmaceutical and biotechnology hub of East Africa, I must as well reiterate that scientists must be given a free hand to do their work/research without political interference.