Download or read book Collaborating with Traditional Healers for HIV Prevention and Care in Sub Saharan Africa written by UNAIDS and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2006 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These guidelines will help health authorities, governmental and non-governmental agencies, and community groups who seek to develop a productive relationship between traditional and conventional health systems for HIV prevention and care in sub-Saharan Africa. They cover planning, design, implementation, evaluation, and the scaling-up of initiatives, wth the aim of expanding access to, and quality of health services. The guidance is supported by examples from successful collaborative projects with lessons that have been learnt.
Download or read book Collaboration with Traditional Healers in HIV AIDS Prevention and Care in Sub Saharan Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collaboration with Traditional Healers in HIV AIDS Prevention and Care in Sub Saharan Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collaboration with Traditional Healers in HIV AIDS Prevention and Care in Sub Saharan Africa written by Rachel King and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collaboration with Traditional Healers in AIDS Prevention and Care in Sub Saharan Africa written by Rachel King and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Traditional Medicine in Sub Saharan Africa written by Jocelyn DeJong and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional health practitioners in Africa are an important human resource in health care, and there are reasons why ministries of health might want to formulate an overt policy toward traditional medicine. Here are some policy options to consider.
Download or read book Collaboration with African Traditional Healers for the Prevention of Blindness written by Paul Courtright and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2000 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional healers are plentiful and are culturally accepted health care providers throughout Africa and much of the developing world. Until recently, however, few traditional healers have been involved in primary eye care activities. Findings from existing collaborative programmers suggest that healers can be a positive force for community-based prevention of blindness. The aim of this publication is twofold: Section 1 gives brief background information on traditional healers and explains why they should be involved in the prevention of blindness activities: Section 2 makes specific recommendations for working with healers and may serve as a training manual.
Download or read book Preventing and Mitigating AIDS in Sub Saharan Africa written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1996-03-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The AIDS epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa continues to affect all facets of life throughout the subcontinent. Deaths related to AIDS have driven down the life expectancy rate of residents in Zambia, Kenya, and Uganda with far-reaching implications. This book details the current state of the AIDS epidemic in Africa and what is known about the behaviors that contribute to the transmission of the HIV infection. It lays out what research is needed and what is necessary to design more effective prevention programs.
Download or read book The Intersection Between Traditional Healing and Modern Medicine Practices in the Care of HIV Positive People Living in Swaziland written by Michelle Alfe and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HIV/AIDS care and prevention activities in sub-Saharan Africa are mainly the result of collaborations between health care providers (physicians, nurses, and mental health professionals) and traditional healers (Bodeker, Carter, Buford, & Dvorak-Little, 2006; Sukati, 1996). Traditional herbal and spiritual practitioners (also known as iSangoma and iNyanga) have shown little inclination to adopt antiretroviral therapies to treat their HIV/AIDS patients (Shuster, Sterk, Frew, & del Rio, 2009). The proposed qualitative pilot study will examine the background of this reluctance, based on experiences of health care providers who are interacting with traditional healers in Swaziland. This pilot study will use qualitative methods to evaluate data collected from focus group discussions. The information will be collected from Swazi care givers attending an HIV/AIDS workshop sponsored by the United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The data obtained from this pilot study proposes to improve understanding, and communication, between collaborating health care providers and traditional healers with the specific aim of propelling the incorporation of antiretroviral therapies in the treatment regime for HIV/AIDS patients in Swaziland.
Download or read book Oxford Textbook of Public Mental Health written by Dinesh Bhugra and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prevention of mental illness and mental health promotion have often been ignored in the past, both in undergraduate and postgraduate curricula. Recently, however, there has been a clear shift towards public mental health, as a result of increasing scientific evidence that both these actions have a serious potential to reduce the onset of illness and subsequent burden as a result of mental illness and related social, economic and political costs. A clear distinction between prevention of mental illness and mental health promotion is critical. Selective prevention, both at societal and individual level, is an important way forward. The Oxford Textbook of Public Mental Health brings together the increasing interest in public mental health and the growing emphasis on the prevention of mental ill health and promotion of well-being into a single comprehensive textbook. Comprising international experiences of mental health promotion and mental well-being, chapters are supplemented with practical examples and illustrations to provide the most relevant information succinctly. This book will serve as an essential resource for mental and public health professionals, as well as for commissioners of services, nurses and community health visitors.
Download or read book The Medicine Man Among the Zaramo of Dar Es Salaam written by Lloyd W. Swantz and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 1990 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an urban anthropologist, pastor and teacher the author has lived for many years among the Zaramo. This revised doctoral thesis is an important and well documented study of the traditional healers in the urban setting.
Download or read book Untapped Potential Opportunities for Collaboration with Traditional Health Practitioners in HIV AIDS Prevention and Treatment in South Africa written by Katherine Busalacchi and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Africa continues to have one of the highest prevalence rates of HIV and AIDS in the world. The high rate of infection, coupled with the fact that many South Africans do not have access to adequate healthcare, has led to a crisis that the government has largely been unable to address. After witnessing this health care crisis firsthand while studying and volunteering in Cape Town, I became interested in alternative methods to address this situation. Fortunately, there exists a largely untapped resource in the fight against HIV and AIDS: traditional healers, also known as sangomas. Many South Africans consult sangomas in conjunction with western healthcare providers or as a primary care provider. Though not able to administer medical treatments in a western sense, sangomas could prove to be invaluable resources for educating the population about HIV and AIDS, especially in regards to prevention and adherence to anti-retroviral therapy regimens. Because they are well respected in their communities and share a culture with the population they are serving, sangomas have a unique opportunity to connect with their patients and make a difference in the fight against HIV/AIDS.This thesis seeks to provide an overview of the complicated role of traditional medicine in modern South Africa, while highlighting programs that have attempted to navigate the divide between traditional and western medicine. Small-scale programs have made great strides toward incorporating traditional healers in HIV prevention and treatment programs in South Africa, but little action has been taking on a national level to increase cooperation. By analyzing the successes and failures of such programs, I hope to contribute to the formation effective versions of these initiatives that can be replicated on a larger scale.
Download or read book Modernizing Medicine in Zimbabwe written by David S. Simmons and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the center of the battle between tradition and modern medicine
Download or read book Ancient Remedies New Disease written by Rachel King and published by UNAIDS Office. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On cover: UNAIDS case study. - Dated June 2002
Download or read book Healing Traditions written by Karen Elizabeth Flint and published by University of Kwazulu Natal Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation In August 2004, South Africa officially legalized the practice of traditional healers. Largely in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and limited both by the number of practitioners and by patients’ access to treatment, biomedical practitioners looked toward the country’s traditional healers as important agents in the development of medical education and treatment. This collaboration has not been easy. The two medical cultures embrace different ideas about the body and the origin of illness, but they do share a history of commercial and ideological competition and different relations to state power.Healing Traditions: African Medicine, Cultural Exchange, and Competition in South Africa, 1820–1948provides a long-overdue historical perspective to these interactions and an understanding that is vital for the development of medical strategies to effectively deal with South Africa’s healthcare challenges. Between 1820 and 1948 traditional healers in Natal, South Africa, transformed themselves from politically powerful men and women who challenged colonial rule and law into successful entrepreneurs who competed for turf and patients with white biomedical doctors and pharmacists. To understand what is “traditional” about traditional medicine, Flint argues that we must consider the cultural actors not commonly associated with African therapeutics: white biomedical practitioners, Indian healers, and the implementing of white rule. Carefully crafted, well written, and powerfully argued, Flint’s analysis of the ways that indigenous medical knowledge and therapeutic practices were forged, contested, and transformed over two centuries is highly illuminating, as is her demonstration that many “traditional” practices changed over time. Her discussion of African and Indian medical encounters opens up a whole new way of thinking about the social basis of health and healing in South Africa. This important book will be core reading for classes and future scholarship on health and healing in South Africa.
Download or read book Anthropology in Public Health written by Robert A. Hahn and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural and social boundaries often separate those who participate in public health activities, and it is a major challenge to translate public health knowledge and technical capacity into public health action across these boundaries. This book provides an overview of anthropology and illustrates in 15 case studies how anthropological concepts and methods can help us understand and resolve diverse public health problems around the world. For example, one chapter shows how differences in concepts and terminology among patients, clinicians, and epidemiologists in a southwestern U.S. county hinder the control of epidemics. Another chapter examines reasons that Mexican farmers don't use protective equipment when spraying pesticides and suggests ways to increase use. Another examines the culture of international health agencies, demonstrates institutional values and practices that impede effective public health practice, and suggests issues that must be addressed to enhance institutional organization and process.; Each chapter characterizes a public health problem, describes methods used to analyse it, reviews results, and discusses implications; several chapters also describe and evaluate programs designed to address the problem on the basis of anthropological knowledge. The book provides practical models and indicates anthropological tools to translate public health knowledge and technical capacity into public health action.
Download or read book HIV AIDS written by Maja Naur and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most African countries have ratified the African Charter on Human and People's Rights, which states the rights to health, education, and promoting, safeguarding, and reinforcing mutual respect and tolerance. In Sub-Saharan Africa alone, some 17.2 million have died of HIV/AIDS. The focus here is, therefore, on how traditional healers and indigenous knowledge can empower communities to deal with the social consequences of the pandemic, and, at the same time, be able to ensure that government resources are actually being used to their benefit. This Notes suggests a mini epidemiological study be undertaken by community member and for the community. The process of community-managed research could be facilitated by traditional healers, local NGOs to balance any attempt by local elites to dominate the process.
