Indigenous knowledge and HIV/AIDS : Ghana and Zambia (English)

The note reviews the cultural role of traditional healers in communities in Ghana, and Zambia, as one of the best hopes for treating, and stemming the spread of AIDS. However, healers rely on medicinal plants which have significantly decreased, as their habitats are lost through deforestation, cultivation, overgrazing, burning droughts, and desertification among others. This has been exacerbated by poor management of local, and international demand...

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Naur,Maja;
Document Date
2001/03/31
Document Type
Brief
Report Number
21995
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Ghana, Zambia,
Region
Western and Central Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa,
Disclosure Date
1999/12/09
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Indigenous knowledge and HIV/AIDS : Ghana and Zambia
Keywords
traditional healer

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Naur,Maja.

Indigenous knowledge and HIV/AIDS : Ghana and Zambia (English). Indigenous Knowledge (IK) Notes|no 30 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/683901468343452520

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