Why US may claim Kenya’s health data rights

Data sovereignty has a price tag. The question is whether we are ready to pay it.

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In my previous articles on the Kenya-US health deal, I wrote as a Kenyan. I raised concerns about data colonialism, about counties being bypassed, about who benefits when our health data fuels foreign drug development. Many of you wrote back agreeing. Those concerns remain valid.

But I hold a dual perspective. I am Kenyan. I am also a United States citizen. And from that second vantage point, I have different questions. Uncomfortable questions that we as Kenyans need to sit with.

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