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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2001/03/31
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Indigenous knowledge and HIV/AIDS : Ghana and Zambia
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traditional healer
Citation
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