African Health Monitor Issue #13
August 2010
Decade of African Traditional Medicine 2001–2010
The World Health Organization estimates that 80% of the populations of Asia, Africa and Latin America use traditional medicine to meet their primary health care needs. For many people in these countries, particularly those living in rural areas, this is the only available, accessible and affordable source of health care.
Articles
- An Overview of the Traditional Medicine Situation in the African Region
- Overview of Traditional Medicine in ECOWAS Member States
- Regulation of Traditional Medicine in the WHO African Region
- Clinical practices of African traditional medicine
- Collaboration between traditional health practitioners and conventional health practitioners: Some country experiences
- L'introduction de plantes médicinales dans le traitement de l'infection à VIH : une approche réussie au Burkina Faso
- Promotion de la Médecine Traditionnelle du Burkina Faso : Essai de développement d’un médicament antidrépanocytaire, le FACA
- Recherche sur la médecine traditionnelle africaine: hypertension
- Promoting African Medicinal Plants through an African Herbal Pharmacopoeia
- Natural products research networks in sub-Saharan Africa
- Towards sustainable local production of traditional medicines in the African Region
- Intellectual property approaches to the protection of traditional knowledge in the African Region