ArticleTropical medicine and infectious disease2020
Integration of Traditional Healers in Human African Trypanosomiasis Case Finding in Central Africa: A Quasi-Experimental Study.
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- Key stakeholders' experiences, knowledge and perspectives regarding care quality for breast cancer in South-West Nigeria.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Article
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- Uniting behind a common goal: Collaboration between traditional healers and allopathic health care workers to improve rural snakebite care.Toxicon: X · 2022Article
- 'The medicine is not for sale': Practices of traditional healers in snakebite envenoming in Ghana.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundBased on the premise that Africans in rural areas seek health care from traditional healers, this study investigated a collaborative model between traditional healers and the national Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) programs across seven endemic foci in seven central African countries by measuring the model's contribution to HAT case finding.
methodTraditional healers were recruited and trained by health professionals to identify HAT suspects based on its basics signs and symptoms and to refer them to the National Sleeping Sickness Control Program (NSSCP) for testing and confirmatory diagnosis.
results35 traditional healers were recruited and trained, 28 finally participated in this study (80%) and referred 278 HAT suspects, of which 20 (7.19%) were CATT positive for the disease. Most cases originated from Bandundu (45%) in the Democratic Republic of Congo and from Ngabe (35%) in Congo. Twelve (4.32%) patients had confirmatory diagnosis. Although a statistically significant difference was not shown in terms of case finding (
conclusionIntegrating traditional healers in the control program of HAT will likely enhance the detection of cases, thereby, eventually contributing to the elimination of HAT in the most affected communities.
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