ReviewCurrent HIV/AIDS reports2015
Engagement of Traditional Healers and Birth Attendants as a Controversial Proposal to Extend the HIV Health Workforce.
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- Can Traditional Health Practitioners Deliver HIV Counseling and Testing Services? A Pilot Study in Rural South Africa.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2025Article
- Traditional Health Practitioners-Initiated HIV Testing and Counselling: Perspectives from Health Care Workers, Healers and Clients in Rural South Africa.AIDS and behavior · 2025Article
- 'Community people are the most powerful resources': qualitative critical realist analysis and framework to support co-produced responses to zoonotic disease threats with(in) Nepali communities.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Community engagement around scrub typhus in northern Thailand: a pilot project.Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 2024Article
- Engagement with Traditional Healers for Early Detection of Plague in Uganda.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2023Article
- Adaption and pilot testing of a lay HIV supporter program for traditional healers: a mixed methods study in rural Uganda.Implementation science communications · 2023Article
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- Traditional healers as client advocates in the HIV-endemic region of Maputo, Mozambique: results from a qualitative study.SAHARA J : journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance · 2021Article
- Implementation of a Community Transport Strategy to Reduce Delays in Seeking Obstetric Care in Rural Mozambique.Global health, science and practice · 2021Article
- Traditional and biomedical care pathways for mental well-being in rural Nepal.International journal of mental health systems · 2021Article
- Conceptual model for pluralistic healthcare behaviour: results from a qualitative study in southwestern Uganda.BMJ open · 2020Article
- Traditional, complementary, and alternative medical cures for HIV: rationale and implications for HIV cure research.Global public health · 2019Review
- The global campaign to eliminate HBV and HCV infection: International Viral Hepatitis Elimination Meeting and core indicators for development towards the 2030 elimination goals.Journal of virus eradication · 2019Article
- Adapting an adherence support workers intervention: engaging traditional healers as adherence partners for persons enrolled in HIV care and treatment in rural Mozambique.Implementation science : IS · 2017Article
- Forming a joint dialogue among faith healers, traditional healers and formal health workers in mental health in a Kenyan setting: towards common grounds.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2016Article
- Southern Africa: the Highest Priority Region for HIV Prevention and Care Interventions.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2015Article
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Abstract
"Medical pluralism" is the use of multiple health systems and is common among people living with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. Healers and traditional birth attendants (TBAs) often are a patient's first and/or preferred line of treatment; this often results in delayed, interrupted, or abandoned diagnosis and therapy. Literature from the study of medical pluralism suggests that HIV care and treatment programs are infrequently and inconsistently engaging healers around the world. Mistrust and misunderstanding among patients, clinical providers, and traditional practitioners make the development of effective partnerships difficult, particularly regarding early HIV diagnosis and antiretroviral therapy. We provide recommendations for the development of successful collaboration health workforce efforts based on both published articles and case studies from our work in rural Mozambique.
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