Allopathic and traditional health practitioners: A reply to Nemutandani, Hendricks and Mulaudzi
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Allopathic and traditional health practitioners: A reply to Nemutandani, Hendricks and Mulaudzi
An earlier paper in this journal reported on the perception and experience of 77 allopathic health practitioners (AHPs) and health managers about working together with South African traditional health practitioners (THPs). The paper stated that the abolishment of the Witchcraft Suppression Act of 1957 and the introduction of the Traditional Health Practitioners Act No. 22 of 2007 is a milestone...
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عنوان ژورنال: African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2071-2936,2071-2928
DOI: 10.4102/phcfm.v9i1.1284