Traditional Medicine and AIDS
The note looks at the work of a regional task force in East, and Southern Africa, established on April 2000 to coordinate activities related to the widespread use of traditional medicine, by people with HIV/AIDS in the region, and on the role of tr...
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okr-10986-108122021-06-14T11:01:33Z Traditional Medicine and AIDS Bodeker, Gerard Kabatesi, Donna King, Rachel Homsy, Jacques ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME TRADITIONAL MEDICINE NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUSES DRUG INDUSTRY EPIDEMIOLOGY DISEASE PREVENTION & CONTROL BIOMEDICAL CHEMICALS MEDICINAL PLANTS PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH INFECTIONS REGULATORY FRAMEWORK INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE PROPERTY RIGHTS RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT AIDS EPIDEMIC AIDS PREVENTION CHRONIC DIARRHEA CLINICAL TRIALS COLLABORATION DRUGS HEALERS HIV HIV PREVENTION INFECTIONS ISOLATION LEARNING MEDIA MEDICINAL PLANTS MEDICINES MODERN HEALTH PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMS REGULATORY MECHANISMS TRADITIONAL HEALERS TRADITIONAL MEDICINE TRADITIONAL SYSTEMS UNAIDS The note looks at the work of a regional task force in East, and Southern Africa, established on April 2000 to coordinate activities related to the widespread use of traditional medicine, by people with HIV/AIDS in the region, and on the role of traditional healers in AIDS prevention. The high costs, and scarcity of many essential drugs, including antiretroviral drugs in Africa, means that most people affected by the epidemic, use traditional herbal treatments. At the same time, various agencies, and nongovernmental organizations were leading the development of partnerships between biomedical, and traditional health sectors. Clinical data on herbal treatments effective against herpes, and HIV-associated chronic diseases have been cited, as was preliminary data on herbal medicine that seems to increase CD4-cell counts, conducive to improvements in HIV-related illnesses. However, mutual misunderstanding between modern, and traditional practitioners, and weak organization of healers, contribute to the marginal status of traditional medicine. On reviewing efforts, the Global Initiative For Traditional Systems (GIFTS) of Health accepted the responsibility to lay the foundation for a network of researchers, to build a research program to identify, assess, and develop safe local treatments against HIV/AIDS. 2012-08-13T13:11:06Z 2012-08-13T13:11:06Z 2000-11 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/11/1671234/traditional-medicine-aids http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10812 English Indigenous Knowledge (IK) Notes; No. 26 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Brief Publications & Research Africa |
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ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME TRADITIONAL MEDICINE NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUSES DRUG INDUSTRY EPIDEMIOLOGY DISEASE PREVENTION & CONTROL BIOMEDICAL CHEMICALS MEDICINAL PLANTS PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH INFECTIONS REGULATORY FRAMEWORK INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE PROPERTY RIGHTS RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT AIDS EPIDEMIC AIDS PREVENTION CHRONIC DIARRHEA CLINICAL TRIALS COLLABORATION DRUGS HEALERS HIV HIV PREVENTION INFECTIONS ISOLATION LEARNING MEDIA MEDICINAL PLANTS MEDICINES MODERN HEALTH PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMS REGULATORY MECHANISMS TRADITIONAL HEALERS TRADITIONAL MEDICINE TRADITIONAL SYSTEMS UNAIDS |
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ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME TRADITIONAL MEDICINE NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUSES DRUG INDUSTRY EPIDEMIOLOGY DISEASE PREVENTION & CONTROL BIOMEDICAL CHEMICALS MEDICINAL PLANTS PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH INFECTIONS REGULATORY FRAMEWORK INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE PROPERTY RIGHTS RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT AIDS EPIDEMIC AIDS PREVENTION CHRONIC DIARRHEA CLINICAL TRIALS COLLABORATION DRUGS HEALERS HIV HIV PREVENTION INFECTIONS ISOLATION LEARNING MEDIA MEDICINAL PLANTS MEDICINES MODERN HEALTH PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMS REGULATORY MECHANISMS TRADITIONAL HEALERS TRADITIONAL MEDICINE TRADITIONAL SYSTEMS UNAIDS Bodeker, Gerard Kabatesi, Donna King, Rachel Homsy, Jacques Traditional Medicine and AIDS |
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Indigenous Knowledge (IK) Notes; No. 26 |
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The note looks at the work of a regional
task force in East, and Southern Africa, established on
April 2000 to coordinate activities related to the
widespread use of traditional medicine, by people with
HIV/AIDS in the region, and on the role of traditional
healers in AIDS prevention. The high costs, and scarcity of
many essential drugs, including antiretroviral drugs in
Africa, means that most people affected by the epidemic, use
traditional herbal treatments. At the same time, various
agencies, and nongovernmental organizations were leading the
development of partnerships between biomedical, and
traditional health sectors. Clinical data on herbal
treatments effective against herpes, and HIV-associated
chronic diseases have been cited, as was preliminary data on
herbal medicine that seems to increase CD4-cell counts,
conducive to improvements in HIV-related illnesses. However,
mutual misunderstanding between modern, and traditional
practitioners, and weak organization of healers, contribute
to the marginal status of traditional medicine. On reviewing
efforts, the Global Initiative For Traditional Systems
(GIFTS) of Health accepted the responsibility to lay the
foundation for a network of researchers, to build a research
program to identify, assess, and develop safe local
treatments against HIV/AIDS. |
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Publications & Research :: Brief |
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Bodeker, Gerard Kabatesi, Donna King, Rachel Homsy, Jacques |
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Bodeker, Gerard Kabatesi, Donna King, Rachel Homsy, Jacques |
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Bodeker, Gerard |
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Traditional Medicine and AIDS |
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Traditional Medicine and AIDS |
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Traditional Medicine and AIDS |
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Traditional Medicine and AIDS |
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Traditional Medicine and AIDS |
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traditional medicine and aids |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2012 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/11/1671234/traditional-medicine-aids http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10812 |
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