Traditional Medicine

Cameroon: Traditional Healers As Best Messengers in HIV/Aids Fight (AllAfrica.com)

17 May 2008

Traditional healers have been identified as the best messengers in the prevention, care and reduction of stigmatisation in HIV/AIDS patients.

Bitter orange SRMs: Tools for product analysis/quality (EurekAlert!)

16 May 2008

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) for bitter orange, long used in folk medicine and now increasingly used in herbal weight-loss products.

Ghana: Western Medicine VS. Traditional Afrikan Medicine (AllAfrica.com)

16 May 2008

Based on previous news reports that have warned Ghanaians to be very circumspect about some of the western drugs they are taking, we thought it appropriate to examine the issue of western medicine and traditional medicine.