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Title: Products From East Africa


1
Products From East Africa
  • Presented by
  • Joseph Bazambanza
  • Artemisia Annua East Africa Ltd

2
Artemisia Annua East Africa Ltd(AAEA)
Partnership network
  • By building a partnership network, AAEA shall
    seek to make joint contributions to
  • develop and promote personal, organizational and
    professional development in
  • meeting identified needs of industry and the
    community.  AAEA shall also encourage
  • its partners to engage in dialogue and action
    with other members of the network.
  •  
  • Guidelines
  • AAEA shall collaborate with other partners to
    provide training for professional development, in
    an effort to increase consistency, avoid
    repetition and unnecessary competition, increase
    cost-effectiveness, provide networking
    opportunities.
  • AAEA shall seek to create linkages between local
    partners and organizations sharing similar
    purposes and mission, for the purpose of sharing
    information, strengthening institutional
    capacity, building alliances, and accessing
    resources. 
  • AAEA shall engage local partners in joint and
    mutual planning and evaluation processes through
    which all parties collaboratively identify their
    own strengths, prioritize the areas in need of
    improvement, and create their own action plans to
    achieve the identified goals in a win-win
    situation. 

3
Artemisia Annua East Africa Ltd Partnership
Framework
The key areas that we need to be established are
  • A common set of objectives
  • A clearly defined nature of the relationship
    between the partners
  • A governance framework that defines roles and
    responsibilities
  • An approach to Stakeholder involvement
  • An approach for regular review
  • A set of guiding principles and guidelines

AAEA ltd Services and Coordination
4
A story of A.annua in East Africa
  • Charles Kiruthi proudly gazes over his crop. I
    used to grow fruits
  • And beans here, he says with a smile, but I
    will get a better return
  • from this plant. No pests attack it, and until
    harvesting time it
  • requires very little labour.
  • Kiruthi, who owns a 10-acre farm in Kiambu in
    Kenyas Central
  • province, is one of hundreds of farmers across
    the country who
  • Have been contracted to grow the Artemisia annua
    plant.
  • The plant has been grown on a small scale by
    private companies
  • And research institutions in East Africa for over
    10 years, but
  • Operations have been scaled up rapidly since
    2004, in response to
  • fears of a global shortage of artemesinin.
  • Source www.IRINnews.org

5
Growers of A.annua plant in East Africa
  • In East Africa, farmers are reported to be very
    interested in growing
  • the new cash crop, especially because the coffee
    market is so slow.
  • In Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda the project is
    being spearheaded by
  • East African Botanicals, which provides seedlings
    and supports both
  • large- and small-scale farmers in a bid to
    rapidly increase the volume
  • of plants.
  • We have been growing Artemisia annua here at the
    university
  • since 2002, said Fidensio Ndegwa, chief
    technician at the School of
  • Health Sciences at Kenyatta University. We have
    also been working
  • with local farmers to increase acreage we have
    sold around 10,000
  • seedlings. We have been researching the plant and
    its properties for
  • over 10 years and have learned a great deal. We
    know it contains
  • very valuable ingredients, and yet we are unable
    to find anyone to
  • sell it to.
  • Source www.IRINnews.org

6
Unrewarded efforts ofindividual growers
  • While the benefits of the project are
    self-evident, there are
  • worrying indications that the coordination of the
    partners
  • involved in the vital crusade to boost the supply
    of artemisinin
  • is somewhat lacking. Despite the clamour
    surrounding the
  • shortage of the valuable plant, it seems that in
    some cases
  • efforts to grow it are going unrewarded, and even
    unnoticed,
  • by the major players in the fight against
    malaria.
  • There is a farmer in Thika in Central province
    who has
  • 2,000 seedlings and around 65 kilograms of leaf,
    but there
  • isnt a market for it, Ndegwa said, shaking his
    head. Its
  • very confusing, as we know there are people
    suffering all over
  • Africa. We know this plant is the key, but its
    just going to
  • waste.
  • Source www.IRINnews.org

7
Whole-leaf A.annua-based drugs
  • Further studies aim to characterise key
    constituents that
  • contribute to the anti-malarial activity of A.
    annua,
  • leading to a selection of appropriate varieties
    or hybrids
  • based on the optimum constituents of artemesinin
    and
  • other key compounds.
  • Prof. Hassanali of ICIPE is hopeful that this
    will allow
  • a detailed business plan for large-scale planting
    and
  • commercial production to be put in place for
    further
  • production of whole-leaf A. annua-based drugs.
  • Source New Agriculturist online Based on
    article written by Naftali Kure

8
Whole leaf A.annua may provide an alternative
solution
  • Research on a drug based on the whole leaf of A.
    annua may
  • provide an alternative solution. Scientists at
    ICIPE, collaborating
  • with the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)
    and the
  • Natural Uwemba System for Health (NUSAG), a
    Tanzanian
  • NGO, have been working to provide a cheaper yet
    efficacious
  • malaria treatment.
  • To make the whole-leaf drug, leaves are ground to
    a very fine
  • powder and thoroughly mixed, which has proved
    effective in
  • ensuring that each tablet has a standard dose of
    the drug.
  • Source New Agriculturist online Based on
    article written by Naftali Kure

9
Proof-of-concept study results
  • A proof-of-concept study, which commenced in June
  • 2004 and ended in February this year, has yielded
    encouraging
  • results. Clinical studies involving 48 patients
    with uncomplicated
  • malaria have shown the whole-leaf drug to have
    impressive
  • efficacy in treating the disease with no
    significant side effects.
  • The source plants being used by the team are
    grown in Arusha,
  • and, encouragingly for African farmers, have been
    shown to yield
  • a higher concentration of artemisinin than
    Chinese plants.
  • Ongoing research will hopefully discover how
    growing
  • conditions affect concentration level.
  • Source New Agriculturist online Based on
    article written by Naftali Kure

10
Extracted artemisinin from a Novartis partner
  • Novartis partners with East African Botanicals to
    expand cultivation and
  • extraction of natural ingredient used in
    anti-malarial Coartem Contracts
  • To purchase extracted artemisinin stimulate
    cultivation of more than 1,000
  • hectares of Artemisia annua in Kenya, Tanzania
    and Uganda.
  • "Novartis has proven to be our most important
    partner as we move to
  • large-scale production of artemisinin in East
    Africa," said Patrick Henfrey,
  • CEO of Advanced Bio Extracts (ABE).   The main
    operating entities of
  • ABE are African Artemisia (AA) operating in
    Tanzania, East African
  • Botanicals Kenya and East African Botanicals
    Uganda.  "By placing firm
  • orders for extracted artemisinin, providing
    financial support for
  • infrastructure improvements, and Delivering
    technical support and know-
  • how, Novartis has made a major contribution to
    creating a sustainable
  • market for this key natural ingredient.
  • Source Novartis Media Releases 06/06/2005

11
A field of Artemisia annua in Kenya
the
the
AAEA ltd contact Joseph Bazambanza artemisiaannua_at_
inbox.com
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