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Modi is a longtime advocate of yoga and traditional health practices and has backed the WHO Global Center for Traditional Medicine, launched in 2022 in his home state of Gujarat. Shyama Kuruvilla, the head of the center, said reliance on traditional remedies was a global reality," noting that 40-90% of populations in 90% of WHO member states used them. The WHO will also launch what it calls the world's largest digital repository of research on the subject—a library of 1.6 million scientific records intended to strengthen evidence and improve knowledge-sharing. "Artificial intelligence, for instance, can screen millions of compounds, helping us understand the complex structure of herbal products and extract relevant constituents to maximize benefit and minimize adverse effects," she told reporters ahead of the conference."