ReviewBMJ global health2019
Towards universal health coverage: advancing the development and use of traditional medicines in Africa.
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- The use of traditional medicine practitioner services for childhood illnesses among childbearing women: a multilevel analysis of demographic and health surveys in 32 sub-Saharan African countries.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2023Pooled it
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- Intersectional experiences of non-communicable diseases and health seeking strategies in informal settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- Challenges and pathways to herbal ethical approval: an institutional case study of a randomized controlled trial onFrontiers in pharmacology · 2026Article
- WHO global research priorities for traditional, complementary, and integrative (TCI) medicine: an international consensus and comparisons with LLMs.Journal of global health · 2025Article
- Steps taken by the World Health Organization African Region Member States to standardise herbal medicines: a literature review.Journal of global health · 2025Review
- Traditional Health Practitioners-Initiated HIV Testing and Counselling: Perspectives from Health Care Workers, Healers and Clients in Rural South Africa.AIDS and behavior · 2025Article
- Investing in traditional medicine: leveraging evidence and innovative research to strengthen the fight against malaria in Nigeria.Malaria journal · 2025Review
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- Traditional medicine regulation status and challenges in Malawi and Nigeria.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2025Article
- Herbal medicines adulteration with erectile dysfunction pharmaceuticals in sub-Saharan Africa: call to strengthen regulatory measures.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Comparative study of the registration procedure of locally manufactured herbal products in selected African countries.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Article
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- Traditional herbal medicine legislative and regulatory framework: a cross-sectional quantitative study and archival review perspectives.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Article
- EXPLORING INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL MEASURES USED BY TRADITIONAL PRACTITIONERS IN RWANDA.African journal of infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Medicinal Plant and Traditional Knowledge-guided Strategies to Combat HIV Persistence.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2024Review
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Abstract
African traditional medicine (ATM) and traditional health practitioners (THPs) could make significant contributions to the attainment of universal health coverage (UHC). Consequently, the WHO provided technical tools to assist African countries to develop ATM as a significant component of healthcare. Many African countries adopted the WHO tools after appropriate modifications to advance research and development (R&D) of ATM. An analysis of the extent of this development was undertaken through a survey of 47 countries in the WHO African region. Results show impressive advances in R&D of ATM, the collaboration between THP and conventional health practitioners, quality assurance as well as regulation, registration and THP integration into the national health systems. We highlight the various ways investment in the R&D of ATM can impact on policy, practice and the three themes of UHC. We underscore the need for frameworks for fair and equitable sharing of all benefits arising from the R&D of ATM products involving all the stakeholders. We argue for further investment in ATM as a complement to conventional medicine to promote attainment of the objectives of UHC.
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