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Experiences and challenges of African traditional medicine: lessons …

(4 days ago) WEBAbstract. Management of COVID-19 in Africa is challenging due to limited resources, including the high cost of vaccines, diagnostics, medical devices and routine …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10414097/

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Trends and Challenges of Traditional Medicine in Africa - PMC

(3 days ago) WEBFor instance, the ratio of traditional healers to the population in Africa is 1: 500 compared to 1:40 000 medical doctors (see table 2 below for details). Indeed, …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3252714/

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African culture, traditional medicine, and cancer care

(3 days ago) WEBIn most societies, people often revert to the familiar when faced with adversity. In Africa, traditional medicine has been a popular, familiar, and convenient health-care option for most people because of …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(22)00157-7/fulltext

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Integrating traditional medicine into the African healthcare system

(7 days ago) WEBThe World Health Organization (WHO) held the inaugural Traditional Medicine Global Summit in India in 2023 to promote the evidence-based integration of …

https://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/47/146/full/

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Traditional Medicine: Past, Present and Future Research and …

(3 days ago) WEBAfrican Traditional Medicine Day is celebrated every year in Cameroon, to sensitized the public on the importance TM. This is a coordinated effort of the …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3252219/

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(PDF) Indigenous Medicine and Traditional Healing in …

(5 days ago) WEBLiterature on traditional medicine in Africa is diverse and broad but most are country based, regional based or time based. There is the need for a systematic review that focuses on the nature of

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334974143_Indigenous_Medicine_and_Traditional_Healing_in_Africa_a_Systematic_Synthesis_of_the_Literature

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Traditional, complementary and alternative medicine use in Sub …

(3 days ago) WEBIntroduction. Traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (TCAM) refers to a set of healthcare practices (indigenous or imported) that are delivered …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6231111/

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Embracing African Traditional Knowledge Health Systems in a …

(3 days ago) WEBA broader understanding of traditional African health systems will help government officials enact appropriate policy frameworks and other related decisions …

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00219347231213373

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Traditional Medicine in Africa SpringerLink

(1 days ago) WEBAbstract. Traditional medicine is an important part of healthcare delivery in Africa. Although a substantial majority still rely on this kind of healing as their primary source of healthcare, the practice is fraught with a number of paradoxes. This chapter addresses the meaning, contributions, challenges and progress of traditional medicine …

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-61672-8_6

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The Place of African Traditional Medicine in Response to COVID

(8 days ago) WEBIn Africa, traditional medicine is culturally entrenched, accessible, and affordable, and serves as primary source for healthcare to more than 80% of the population across the …

https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/place-african-traditional-medicine-response-covid-19-and-beyond

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Integrating traditional medical knowledge into mainstream …

(7 days ago) WEBIn most African states, the majority of the population depend on indigenous healing knowledge for their healthcare. This knowledge is in danger of being obliterated …

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0266666918785940

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Examining African Traditional Health Care - Springer

(2 days ago) WEBing health care in sub-Saharan Africa is an impor-tant aspect of analyzing health and mental health care sustainability in this part of the world. According to Dechambenoit (2016), the available monetary resources designated for health care in sub-Saharan African countries only allow cover-age for approximately 100,000 people out of ten

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-319-70134-9_16-1.pdf

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Traditional system of medicines in Africa - ScienceDirect

(Just Now) WEB26.2. Traditional medicines and systems of medicine in Africa. African traditional medicine is the oldest and possibly the most diverse of all therapeutic …

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128202845000083

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Indigenous Medicine and Traditional Healing in Africa: a …

(4 days ago) WEB6 O. Ishaq Isola, “The Relevance of the African Traditional Medicine (Alternative Medicine) To Health Care Delivery System in Nigeria,” The Journal of the Developing Areas (2013): 320. 7 WHO report, 8. 8 Ibidem, 8. 9 Kwasi Konadu, Indigenous Medicine and Knowledge in African Society (New York & London: Routledge Publishing Group, 2007), 124.

https://hcommons.org/deposits/objects/hc:31370/datastreams/CONTENT/content

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Perceptions of causes and treatment of mental illness among …

(3 days ago) WEBWhile some writers predicted in 1960s and 1970s that traditional belief systems in Africa would disappear with ‘modernization’ (Ashforth, 2005), many …

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00812463231186264

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Traditional Medicines in Africa: An Appraisal of Ten Potent African

(Just Now) WEBThe use of medicinal plants as a fundamental component of the African traditional healthcare system is perhaps the oldest and the most assorted of all …

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/2013/617459/

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African indigenous medicines: towards a holistic healthcare …

(6 days ago) WEBDr. Alex Asakitikpi was formerly a Professor and Head of Sociology Department at Monash University South Africa and currently the Head of School of Social Science at IIEMSA in Johannesburg. He is an executive board member of Research Committee 15 of the International Sociological Association and a non-resident scholar at …

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725843.2020.1820311

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African Traditional Medicine: Its Potential, Limitations and …

(8 days ago) WEBThe state and importance of African traditional medicine African traditional medicine is as old as humanity, and has been reported by Ebu, et al. [6] to be the oldest of all the …

https://scholars.direct/Articles/health-care/jhc-5-025.pdf

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The Role of the African Traditional Healer in Women’s Health

(7 days ago) WEBTraditional healers provide an important link between the rural people of Africa and primary health care. The purpose of this article is to review more recent literature and …

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1043659605285411

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African traditional medicine struggles to find its place within health …

(3 days ago) WEBTraditional African medicine is a curious, hybrid mix of herbalism and spirituality. The lack of scientific validity has definitely been an impediment, says Dr. Kofi Annan, head of the Department of Herbal Medicine at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. As a consequence, in Ghana, efforts at …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3494357/

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Afro-Communitarianism and the Role of Traditional African …

(2 days ago) WEBTraditional African Healers might also point out that social distancing, despite on the face of it being morally problematic for preventing rituals, is essential to …

https://academic.oup.com/phe/article/14/1/59/6179043

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Global Excellence in Ethnopharmacology: Africa - Frontiers

(5 days ago) WEBThis Research Topic is intended to highlight primary research on pharmacological and biological effects of plants, fungi, animals, microorganisms and …

https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/50051/global-excellence-in-ethnopharmacology-africa

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Understanding the healthcare experiences and needs of African

(6 days ago) WEBA Scoping Review is ideal for the initial step in understanding African immigrant health due to its usefulness for exploring an issue that has not been well …

https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-019-8127-9

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Needs and opportunities for addressing the nexus of climate

(Just Now) WEBClimate change is having increasingly disastrous effects on human health and well-being, especially in Africa, and protecting and promoting health is a powerful …

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/needs-and-opportunities-for-addressing-the-nexus-of-climate-change-and-public-health-in-africa/

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Opinion: South Africa's traditional medicines should be used in …

(6 days ago) WEBTraditional medicines are part of the cultural heritage of many Africans. About 80% of the African continent's population use these medicines for health care.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-08-opinion-south-africa-traditional-medicines.html

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African Traditional Healthcare Practices vs Conventional Medicine

(1 days ago) WEBAfrican traditional medicine is the African indigenous system of health care and therefore cannot be an alternative’ [24]. African governments have made …

https://www.heraldopenaccess.us/openaccess/african-traditional-healthcare-practices-vs-conventional-medicine-future-directions-for-healthcare-in-africa

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African farmers look to the past and the future to address climate

(2 days ago) WEB1 of 11 . Farmers sort out climate-smart beans in Machakos, Kenya, Monday, March 18, 2024. From ancient fertilizer methods in Zimbabwe to new …

https://apnews.com/article/africa-farming-technologies-climate-change-e0edfba75053cad02097f2e5bfe528fd

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Building collapse in South Africa leaves three dead, dozens …

(4 days ago) WEBGEORGE, South Africa, May 6 (Reuters) - Rescue efforts were underway after three people were killed and dozens remained trapped after a multi-storey building …

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/several-people-trapped-after-building-collapse-south-africa-media-2024-05-06/

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2 workers killed, more than 50 trapped when a building under

(9 days ago) WEBCAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A multi-story apartment building under construction collapsed Monday in a coastal city in South Africa, killing two construction …

https://apnews.com/article/south-africa-building-collapse-injuries-8108dec1f01b7d1749b667e850942ad3

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Experiences and challenges of African traditional medicine: …

(8 days ago) WEBManagement of COVID-19 in Africa is challenging due to limited resources, including the high cost of vaccines, diagnostics, medical devices and routine pharmaceuticals. These challenges, in addition to wide acceptability, have resulted in increased use of herbal medicines based on African traditional medicines (ATMs) by patients in Africa. This is …

https://gh.bmj.com/content/8/8/e010813

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