The indigenous knowledge (IK) program has been supporting local and national efforts to mainstream the use of traditional knowledge in the development process since 1998. A number of African countries...
Universal access to, and community uptake of malaria prevention and treatment strategies are critical to achieving current targets for malaria reduction. The phrase ‘kutentha thupi’, or ‘hot body’ was...
The focus of India’s National Malaria Programme witnessed a paradigm shift recently from health facility to community-based approaches. The current thrust is on diagnosing and treating malaria by community...
The primary objective of the Private Power Generation Project for Uganda is to increase thermal power generation in order to minimize increased load shedding and economic disruption over the a short to...
Ratings for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Medicinal Plants Project for Ethiopia were as follows: outcomes were satisfactory, Global Environment Objectives (GEO) outcomes were satisfactory, the...
Ratings for the Multi sectoral Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Project for Benin were as follows: outcomes were satisfactory, the risk to development outcome...
The note reviews Madagascar's inherited wealth of ethno-medical knowledge, being endowed with a flora of unique global importance on account of its biodiversity, endemicity, and ethno-medical uses. The...
This report was written as part of a broader Health Sector Review in Timor-Leste currently being undertaken by the World Bank. Timor-Leste struggles with a burden of disease since independence. Poor health...
This report was written as part of a broader Health Sector Review in Timor-Leste currently being undertaken by the World Bank. Timor-Leste struggles with a burden of disease since independence. Poor health...
During the workshop organized by traditional healers at the XIIIth International HIV/AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa in July 2000, the issue of the legal recognition and the legal status of this...
Traditional medicine refers to the ways that existed of protecting and restoring health before the arrival of modern medicine (World Health Organization - WHO 1996). It has also been defined as the sum...
In spite of the scientific advances made by modern medicine, 75-80 percent of the population turn to traditional medicine for health care. This medicine has evolved with the history of mankind, and traditional...
Throughout two decades of development activity, reports on the "crisis" of desertification, food scarcity, and economic inefficiency have been challenged by local counter-narratives which show local people...
The Timor-Leste health sector review describes the accomplishments made by the government of Timore-Leste in the health sector since it separated from Indonesia, and analyzes the challenges still facing...
This report deals with primary health care providers in Africa. Today healers in Africa still play crucial roles they carry the burden of care for treating people with HIV/AIDS. Plants have been used as...